Chapter 12 Further Resources

Social Work with Aging Populations

Recommended Readings

Canadian Centre for Elder Law (2011). A practical guide to elder abuse and neglect law in Canada. Vancouver: University of British Columbia.

Gubrium, J.F., & Holstein, J.A. (Eds). (2000). Aging and everyday life: Classic and contemporary readings. Toronto: Wiley-Blackwell.

Gubrium, J.F., & Holstein, J.A. (Eds). (2002). Ways of aging. Toronto: Wiley-Blackwell.

Harvey, K., with Hulko, W. (2013). A good day with grandma (kyé7e and me). Produced for Stories of our past. A dementia knowledge translation project between First Nations Elders and children. Kamloops, BC: Thompson Rivers University.

Hollander, M.J., & Chappell, N.L. (2013). Aging in Canada. Don Mills: Oxford University Press.

Hulko, W., Brotman, S., Stern, L., & Ferrer, I. (2020). Gerontological social work in action: Anti-oppressive practice with older adults, their families and communities. London: Routledge.

Katz, S. (2005). Cultural aging: Life course, lifestyle, and senior worlds. Peterborough: Broadview Press.

Novak, M., Northcott, H.C., & Campbell, L. (2017). Aging and society: Canadian perspectives. (8th ed.). Toronto: Nelson.

Wister, A. (2018). Aging as a social process: Canada and beyond. (7th ed.). Don Mills: Oxford University Press.

Recommended Videos

  1. Laura Carstensen: Older people are happier (2011). 11 min 23 sec. TEDxWomen. https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_carstensen_older_people_are_happier

    In this TED Talk, Laura Carstensen dispels some of the common myths about aging by introducing research on the positive aspects of aging. 
  1. Remembering Our Way Forward: Dementia from a Secwepemc Perspective (2013). 20 min 28 sec. Trevor Mack with Dr. Wendy Hulko and Secwepemc Nation Elders. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTE1Z_oqvxI

    This film portrays the importance of considering culturally specific ways of understanding and responding to dementia for Indigenous older adults.
  1. Ashton Applewhite: Let’s end ageism (2017). 11 min 29 sec. TED. https://www.ted.com/talks/ashton_applewhite_let_s_end_ageism

    In this TED Talk, author and activist Ashton Applewhite asks viewers to take a serious look at ageism and how it negatively impacts all of us.
  1. Millennials Show Us What ‘Old’ Looks Like | Disrupt Aging (2016). 4 min 8 sec. AARP. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYdNjrUs4NM&feature=emb_logo

    In this short video, millennials face their assumptions about age by interacting with older adults and learn that old age is not all about decline.
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