The Frail Elderly: Problems, Needs, and Community Responses

by Carole B. Cox

Elderly issues currently inspire a great deal of research, discussion, and public policy debate. Cox's informative, comprehensive, and sensitive consideration of an especially vulnerable elderly segment--the frail--makes a genuine contribution to the understanding of frailty that must guide support systems and public policy.

Issues addressed in this work include not only the consequences of frailty but also its prevention. The forms of support...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865692289
• ISBN13: 9780865692282
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"