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Preparing Communal Professionals to Support Jewish Aging
Publication Date: January 2006
Publisher(s): Jewish Communal Service Association of North America
Author(s): Susan L. Shevitz
Series: Journal of Jewish Communal Service, 81:3-4
Special Collection: Berman Jewish Policy Archive
Topic: Culture and religion (Religion and religious groups)
Health (Health services for older people)
Keywords: Elderly; Jewish Organizations; Demography
Type: Report
Coverage: United States
Abstract:
In an aging Jewish community, the need to educate professionals in both Jewish life and gerontology is immediate, as is the need to create a climate that will actively encourage the development of new approaches to Jewish aging. The recent establishment of Jewish family education as a specialty provides a model for how to advance the Jewish gerontology agenda.