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Will and Carla, a married couple in their mid-fifties, are working with Will’s elderly father to explore the options for nursing home care. As a county social worker, you are advising them on new directions for nursing homes. Describe three new directions/perspectives in nursing home care that are revolutionizing perceptions of nursing home design, purpose, and residents’ quality of life.

Differential reinforcement of incompatible behavior involves teaching persons with Alzheimer’s disease to remember new information by gradually increasing the time between retrieval attempts.

According to Piaget’s theory, placing thoughts into a coordinated whole is called

Ethnic differences in women’s rates of depression have been found in Korea.

Whitbourne’s findings indicated that adult identity development is based on equilibrium between

In Kahana’s model, an example of a preventive adaptation would be

In terms of the main pathway in Verbrugge and Jette’s (1994) model, ______________ occurs between pathology and impairments.

According to Langer’s social¬psychological perspective approach to the person-environment issue, the key to residents’ well-being is the degree to which they have medical attention available.

An evaluation of one’s life associated with positive feelings is known as

Lowering one’s cholesterol is important in lowering one’s risk for