This research guide was designed to help you get started with research related to issues that impact older adults and your families. It includes reference books to get you started, journal databases, and selected websites.
The quintessential Encyclopedia of Social Work features entries by Karen Kayser, Demetrius Iatridis, James Lubben, and former GSSW Dean June Hopps. There are many chapters relevant to social work with older adults and families.
Coverage includes theories of psychology and aging, methods for studying psychology and aging, advances in understanding changes in thinking and emotion with aging, social influences on aging, and clinical approaches for psychologists working with older adults.
The book tackles problems such as homelessness, social isolation, mass incarceration, family violence, and economic inequality. The Grand Challenges lays out the start of the initiative and provides summaries of each of the twelve challenges. The 12 main chapters that form the core of the book, one on each of the dozen Grand Challenges, are written by the primary research teams who are driving each GC project.
Presents the growth of research on aging individuals, populations, and the dynamic culmination of the life course, providing a comprehensive synthesis and review of the latest research findings in the social sciences of aging.
The Encyclopedia of Social Work by 
Oxford Encyclopedia of Psychology and Aging by 
Grand Challenges for Social Work and Society by 
Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences by 
The Encyclopedia of Elder Care, Fourth Edition by 