An Alzheimer Family Support Group Project


 

Publication Date: December 1984

Publisher: Jewish Communal Service Association of North America

Author(s): Herbert Bernstein

Research Area: Health; Social conditions

Keywords: Elderly; Mental Health; Social Services

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

The author reports on a two year experience in initiating and leading an Alzheimer Family Support Group as a pilot service program for a family agency. He argues that in order to serve dementia patients and their families living in the community, family agencies have a responsibility to train social workers to work with this population. Social workers in turn have an obligation to learn to function in this complex area.

In Journal of Jewish Communal Service, v.61 no.2, Winter 1984.