The Black Elderly: Satisfaction and Quality of Later Life (Haworth Social Work Practice)

In The Black Elderly: Satisfaction and Quality of Later Life, authors Marguerite Coke and James Twaite present the results of an empirical study of factors that influence the well-being of older black Americans. Like all older individuals in industrial nations, elderly blacks are confronted with negative attitudes toward old people. But in spite of their minority status in society, with its economic and social disadvantages, elderly blacks have effective coping strategies for dealing with growing old. It is the success of these coping strategies that the authors reveal to readers and upon which they build recommendations to encourage healthy aging in the black community.Marguerite Coke is the author of 'The Black Elderly: Satisfaction and Quality of Later Life (Haworth Social Work Practice)', published 1995 under ISBN 9781560249146 and ISBN 1560249145.