Senior Centers in America

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An exhaustive review of local and national studies, this book provides a complete analysis of senior centres. Major topics include: historical development and changes over time, centre resources and organizational characteristics, activities and services, factors associated with participation, participant versus non-participant profiles, linkages and focal point functions, policy issues such as effectiveness and serving the frail, and future senior centre scenarios. The book is research-based and identifies areas in need of additional investigation. However, it is also targeted to practitioners and policy makers and is intended to assist them in formulating policy and examining issues central to senior centre planning and operation, now and in the future. Krout makes a strong case for the importance and necessity of senior centres, and presents an analysis of the issues and challenges they must respond to in an era of resource shortfalls, shifting social and health policies and a changing elderly population.

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. . .Overall, students, researchers, planners, policymakers, senior center dirctors, and older and aging adults, interested in senior centers will find the text informative and stimulating. Senior centers have become an integral link in the delivery of multiple services to community-based elderly citizens. What will be the role of senior centers in the future Krout challenges researchers, planners, policymakers, and students to seek answers to the questions raised in his book so that the next 50 years in the growth and development of senior centers in America can be even more exciting than those he explored.-Educational Geronotology
This book presents an exhaustive review of local and national studies to provide a complete and multifaceted analysis of senior centers. Major topics include: historical development and changes over time; center resources and organizational characteristics, activities and services; factors associated with participation; participant versus non-participant profiles; linkages and focal point functions; policy issues such as effectiveness and serving the frail; and future senior center scenarios.-Recent Publications on Governmental Problems
"This book presents an exhaustive review of local and national studies to provide a complete and multifaceted analysis of senior centers. Major topics include: historical development and changes over time; center resources and organizational characteristics, activities and services; factors associated with participation; participant versus non-participant profiles; linkages and focal point functions; policy issues such as effectiveness and serving the frail; and future senior center scenarios."-Recent Publications on Governmental Problems
." . .Overall, students, researchers, planners, policymakers, senior center dirctors, and older and aging adults, interested in senior centers will find the text informative and stimulating. Senior centers have become an integral link in the delivery of multiple services to community-based elderly citizens. What will be the role of senior centers in the future Krout challenges researchers, planners, policymakers, and students to seek answers to the questions raised in his book so that the next 50 years in the growth and development of senior centers in America can be even more exciting than those he explored."-Educational Geronotology

Author Bio

JOHN A. KROUT is Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Fredonia. He wrote The Rural Elderly and The Aged in Rural America (Greenwood Press, 1983, 1986). Krout has published numerous articles on senior centers in the International Journal of Aging and Human Development, The Gerontologist, Research on Aging, and the Journal of Gerontological Social Work, among others. He is secretary of the Delegate Council of the National Center on the Rural Aging and a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.