POLICY COURSES
Resources, Materials & Methods
Resources & Materials
Films
§ A Time to Change
§ A World of Ideas: Ethics and Economics
§ Big Mama
§ Film about historical development and current issues of Medicare
§ Films on older adults remembering life as orphans and on native American experience of boarding schools
§ For Better or Worse
§ Growing Old in a New Age: Societal and Political Aspects of
Aging (Tape12)
§ Homeless in New York
§ In the White Man’s Image
§ Interview with Maggie Kuhn
§ Legacy
§ Life
§ Living Wills
§ Medicare/Medicaid and long-term care financing
§ One East
§ Oral History: A Century of Living
§ Orphan Train
§ PBS video, Health Care Crisis: Who’s at Risk?
§ The Future of Aging and Aging Services: A Call for New Paradigm
and Vision
§ The Issues Regarding Privatization of Social Security
§ To Be Old, Black, and Poor
Readings
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Anderson, L., Sundet, P., &
Harrington, I. (2000). The social welfare system in the United
States: A social worker’s guide to public benefits programs.
Chapter
4, The Social Security Act, Title II, Old Age Survivors, Disability Insurance.
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Axinn, J & Stern, M. J. (2004). Social welfare: A history
of the American response to need. Boston MA: Allyn & Bacon, Inc.
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Barusch, A. (2002). Foundations
of social policy. Itasca: F.E. Peacock Publishers.
Chapters 3,4,5, & 9
§ Brookdale
Center on Aging. “Benefits Checklist for Older Adults.” Two versions:
one for New York City and one for New York
State (outside NYC). Brookdale Center
on Aging of Hunter College.
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Brown, D. (1999). A context for teaching aging-related public
policy. Educational Gerontology, 25 (8), 711-722.
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Chapin, R. (2001). Supporting the strengths of older women.
In: Peterson, K.J. & A. A. Lieberman (eds). Building on women’s
strengths: A social work agenda for the twenty-first century, (p. 169). Binghamton, NY:
Haworth Press.
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Cole, T. R. & Stevenson, D. G. (1999). The meaning of age
and the future of Social Security. Generations, 23 (4), 72-76
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Coles, R., Testa, R., & Coles, M. (2001). Growing up
poor: A literary anthology. New York, NY: The New Press.
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Cowan, J. (1995, March 23). Perspective on Social Security:
Boomers’ burden on generation X. Los Angeles Times.
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Cowart, M. E. & Quadrango, J. S. (1996). From nursing
home to home care. Binghamton, NY: Haworth
Press.
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Cruz, H. (1995, July 7) Time for a change: Proposals
to reform social security. Chicago Tribune.
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DiNitto, D. M. (2000). Social
welfare: Politics and public policy (5th ed.).
Chapter 4, Preventing Poverty: The Social Insurance Programs;
Chapter 8, Improving health Care: Treating the Nation’s Ills; Chapter 5, Helping the “Deserving Poor”: Aged,
Blind and Disabled; Chapter 8, Improving Health Care; Chapter 10, Providing Social Services: Help for Children and the Elderly;
Chapter 11. Challenging Social Welfare: Racism and Sexism (and Ageism; Chapter 12, Implementing and Evaluating Social Welfare
Policy: What Happens After a law is Passed.
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Dolgoff, R. & Feldstein, D. (2000). Understanding social
welfare (5th edition). Needham Heights, MA:
Allyn & Bacon. Chapter 7.
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Elman, C. (1998). Intergenerational household structure and
economic change at the turn of the 20th century. Journal of Family History, 23(4), 417-440.
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Ewalt, P., Freeman, E., Kirk, S.
& Poole, D. (eds.) 1996. Multicultural issues in social work. Washington, DC:
NASW Press.
Chapter 24, Asian and Pacific Island
Elders: Issues for Social Work Practice and Education; Chapter 36, In Home and Community Based Service Utilization by Three
Groups of Elderly Hispanics: A National Perspective.
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Greene, V. & Marty, K. (1999). Generational investment
and social insurance for the elderly: Balancing the accounts. The Gerontologist, 39 (6), 645-647.
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Hemphill, C. D. (1994). Age relations and the social order
in early New England: the evidence from manners. Journal of Social History, 28, 271-294.
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Henderson, D. R. (1997, September 8). Fix Social Security?
Why not abolish it. Fortune.
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Hinterlong, J., Morrow-Howell, N., & Sherraden, M. (2001). Productive aging: Principles
and perspectives. In N. Morrow-Howell, J. Hinterlong, & M. Sherraden (Eds.), Productive aging: Concepts and challenges (pp.
3-18). Baltimore: Johns
Hopkins University Press.
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Hogan, S. (1990). Caring for the caregiver to ease their burden.
Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 16 (5), 12-17.
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Holahan, Weiner, & Liska, (1997). The Medicaid reform
debate. Washington, DC: The Urban Institute. Available online: http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/mrd97.pdf
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Karger, H. J. & Stoesz, D. (2002). American social welfare policy A pluralist approach (4th ed.). Boston,
MA: Allyn and Bacon. Chapter 10, Social Insurance
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Kelley, et al.
(1977). To grandmothers house we go and stay: Children raised in inter-generational families. Journal of Gerontological
Nursing.
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Kerry, B. (1995, February 2) Social Security, Medicare
in need of reform now. Washington Post.
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Krain, M. (1995). Policy implications for a society aging well.
American Behavioral Scientist, 39 (2), 131-151.
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Lee, A. & Baker, C. (1998). Do black elderly Medicare patients
receive fewer services? An analysis of procedure use for selected patient conditions. Medical Care Research & Review,
55 (3), 314-323.
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Lindblom, C & Woodhouse, E. J. (1992). The policy making
process. Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall PTR.
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Moon, M. (1999). Will the care be there? Vulnerable beneficiaries
and Medicare reform. Health Affairs, 18, 107-117.
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National Association of Social Workers, (2003). Social work speaks:
Policy statements, 2003-2006.
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Nolan, M & Davies, S. (2001). Working with older people
and their families: Key issues in policy and practice. Buckingham, Great
Britain: Open University Press.
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Older American Act
§ Otto, J. M.
(2000). The role of adult protective services in addressing abuse. Generations,
24(2) Summer, 33-38.
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Popple, P. R. & Leighninger, L. (2003). The policy-based profession:
An introduction to social welfare policy analysis for social workers. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, Inc. Chapters 5, 6, & 8.
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Popple, P. R., & Leighninger, L. (2000). Social work, social welfare, and American society, 4th ed., Boston,
MA: Allyn and Bacon. Chapter 15.
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President Bush’s State of the Union
Address.
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Raffel, N.K. & Raffel, M.W. (1987). Elderly care: Similarities
and solutions in Denmark and the United
States. Public Health Reports, 102(5), 494-500.
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Segal, E. & Brzuzy, S. (1998). Social welfare policy,
programs and practice. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Chapter 8, Aging and Social Welfare Policy.
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Silverstein, M. & Parrott, T. (1997). Attitudes toward
public support of the elderly: Does early involvement with grandparents moderate generational tensions? Research on Aging,
19 (1), 108-131.
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Social Security Network. (1999). Social Security: The basics.
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Steverle, C. E. et. al. (1998). The government we deserve:
Responsive democracy and changing expectations. Washington, DC:
Urban Institute Press.
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Suppes, M. A. & Wells, C. C. (2003). The Social work
experience: An introduction to social work and social welfare. Burr Ridge, IL:
McGraw-Hill Higher Education. Chapter 11, Social Work with Older Adults
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Takamura, J. C. (1999). Getting ready for the 21st
Century: The aging of America and the Older Americans Act.
Health and Social Work, 24(3), 232.
§ The Century
Foundation. (2001). Introduction, Medicare: Nuts and bolts, What is right with Medicare? What is wrong with Medicare? Medicare
reform: A Century Foundation guide to the issues (pp. 1-30). New York:
The Century Foundation.
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Torey-Gil & Villa (1999). Social policy and the elderly.
In: Midgley, J., Tracy, M, & Livermore,
M. (eds). The handbook of social policy, (p 209).Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
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U.S.
Census Bureau, (1997). How we’re changing: Demographic state of the nation: 1997, Current population reports:
Special Studies, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Census Bureau,
March, P23-193.
§ United Nations
Handouts. “United Nations principles for older persons” (1998); Address by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivered
to the 2nd World Assembly on Ageing (Madrid, 2002); “World population
ageing: 1950-2050.” Executive Summary. United Nations (2001).
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Waldrop, D. P.
& Weber, J. A. (2001). From grandparent to caregiver: The stress and satisfaction of raising grandchildren, Journal
of Contemporary Human Services, 82(5).
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Wallace, G. (2001). Grandparent caregivers: Emerging issues
in elder law and social work practice. Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 34 (3), 127-136.
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Weiler, N. (1992). Religion, ethnicity and the development
of private homes for the aged. Journal of American Ethnic History, 12, 64-90.
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Whiteman, V. L. (2001). Social security: What every human
service professional should know. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon.
§ Wikin, S.
L. (1999). How "ripened" are you? Social Work, 44.
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Wilber, K. & McNeilly, D. P. (2001). Elder abuse and victimization.
In: J. E. Birren & K.W. Schaie (eds.). Handbook of the psychology of aging, (p 569). 5th ed. San Diego: Academic
Press.
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Yates, J. & Gillespie, W. (2000). The elderly and prison
policy. Journal of Aging and Social Policy 11, (2-3), 167-175.
