Special Issues of Journals

.....Judith Barker and Margaret Clark (Eds.) (1992) Cross-cultural medicine--A decade later (Special issue) Western Journal of Medicine, 157, (3) A follow up to a classic issue on cross cultural health care published in 1983. Contains a number of articles by medical anthropologists with relevant content to geriatrics.

.....David V.Espino. (Ed.). (1995). Clinics in Geriatric Medicine: Ethnogeriatrics (Vol. 11, No. 1). Philadelphia, PA: W. B. Saunders Co. Chapters by physicians and other experts on the health status and risks of elders from four ethnic categories (African American, Hispanic American, Asian/Pacific Islander Americans, and American Indian). Additional chapters focus on ethical issues especially related to advance directives and end-of-life issues for each of the ethnic category populations.

.....Zev Harel, E. McKinney, & M. Williams. African American Aged: Diversity, Health Concerns and Health Services. Western Reserve Geriatric Education Center Interdisciplinary Monograph Series (Editors: N. Wadsworth, G. Anetzberger, J. Kowal). Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University, 1993. The purpose of this monograph is to review and discuss health status and health concerns of African American aged and to evaluate the adequacy of current health care policies and programs in meeting their health care needs. It focuses, first, on the diversity that characterizes African American aged. Second, the health status and health concerns of older African Americans is reviewed, in order to foster a better understanding of their need for health and long-term care services. Third, the focus shifts to an examination of the factors which predispose or moderate/exacerbate the aged's health/illness status. Fourth, consequences of health/illness are reviewed in order to better understand the implications of health/illness status for health and long-term care service need among older African Americans. Finally, the monograph reviews current health care policies and programs and suggests needed changes. 49 pages. AVAILABLE FROM: Western Reserve Geriatric Education Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. PRICE: $5.00

.....Darryl Wieland, Donna Benton, B.Josea Kramer, and G.D. Dawson. Cultural Diversity and Geriatric Care: Challenges to the Health Professions, Haworth Press, Inc., 1994. (This is a hardbound book of articles published simultaneously in Gerontology and Geriatrics Education Vol. 15, No 1,1994, 116 pages) It lists for $39.95, but used as a text it will be around $15.00.)

.....Generations. (Journal of the American Society on Aging). Special Issue on Diversity. Volume 15, No. 4, Fall/Winter 1991. Nice set of brief, basic articles on a variety of issues impacting minority elderly. Reprinted in book form by Baywood.

.....Toshio Tartara (Ed.) (1997). Journal of Elder Abuse and Neglect, 9, (2) Collection of articles from a national conference sponsored by Archstone Foundation in June, 1997, focusing on perceptions and findings relating to elder abuse in various ethnic populations in the U.S.

.....Barbara Yee (Ed.) Ethnogeriatrics: Impact of Cultural and Minority Experience on Geriatric Rehabilitation. Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation 12, 3, March 1997. A series of articles by well known authors in ethnogeriatrics exploring ethnic specific generational cultures, ethics, neuropsychological assessment, functional disability, cardiovascular disease, and coping skills in arthritis among one or more older ethnic populations as each topic relates to rehabilitation.