Mental care for seniors and their carers as a challenge for social politicies

• Authors: Huber, Lidia

Abstracts

EN

The demography of aging raises questions that answering to will be important for effective, comprehensive care for the elderly and their aging caregivers. Predictions for the future of our society require analyzing different problems: who are long-living people? Will the quality and quantity of services in this area be adequate Why is medical care not always linked to the protection of the mental needs of the patients? But also how is the environmental psychological care over caregivers of older people being formed? Developing a theoretical model of comprehensive senior care and linking it with already existing practice methods can facilitate the interaction of many of its sectors to effectively address the challenges of a “gray society”.

Keywords

EN

old people; family caregivers; comprehensive care; mental needs; psychological dilemma; psychological help

• Publisher: Akademia Pedagogiki Specjalnej im. Marii Grzegorzewskiej. Wydawnictwo APS
• Journal: Praca Socjalna
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 32(5)
• Pages: 104-116

Dates

published

2019-12-31

Contributors

author

Huber, Lidia