Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword

• Cross National Trends and Issues in Social Service Provision and Social Work Practice for the Elderly
• Perspectives on Australian Social Service Delivery and Social Work Practice in Gerontology
• Canadian Social Services and Social Work Practice in the Field of Aging
• Social Services and Social Work Practice With the Elderly in the Federal Republic of Germany
• Social Work and Personal Social Services for the Elderly in Great Britain
• Care of the Aging in Israel: Social Service Delivery
• Social Work Practice in Gerontology in Israel
• Social Service Delivery and Social Work Practice for Japanese Elders
• Social Services and the Elderly in the Netherlands
• Social Work and Old Age Care in Sweden

About the Author

Merl C. Hokenstad, PhD, MSW, is the Ralph S. and Dorothy P. Schmitt Professor in the School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He also serves as President of the Council on Social Work Education. While engaged in doctoral study in social welfare at Brandeis University, he served as a research associate on a Ford Foundation project on community planning for the elderly. Since that time he has been the principal investigator or participant in a number of studies on community planning, community services, and home care for the elderly. In the field of practice he has developed health and homemaker services for older adults and as Dean of the School of Applied Social Sciences, he developed curricula in a number of emerging areas of social work concern, including gerontology. His teaching assignments include doctoral seminars on gerontological research and health and social service delivery systems and graduate courses on policies and programs for the aging. Dr. Hokenstad is widely recognized for his leadership in internationalizing the social work curriculum in the United States.,
Katherine A. Kendall, PhD, MA, is Executive Secretary to a newly appointed Council of Advisors to Hunter College and the Lois and Samuel Silberman Fund on behalf of the School of Social Work. As the first occupant of the Henry and Lucy Moses Chair of Social Work at Hunter College, she has recently completed a year as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Social Work. Dr. Kendall is internationally known as the former Secretary-General and the current Honorary President of the International Association of Schools of Social Work and former Executive Director of the Council on Social Work Education. Consulting and working with schools of social work throughout the United States and in every continent, she has been instrumental in opening up the social work curriculum to new areas of practice and in effectively relating social work educat