Helping the Aged

Originally published in 1970, the field experiment described in this book was the first British attempt to assess the effectiveness of social work. A team led by a social worker assessed the social and medical conditions of 300 aged applicants to a local authority welfare department and determined their needs for help.

E. Matilda Goldberg

Acknowledgements. Foreword. Preface. Part I: Objectives and Methods 1. The Objectives of Social Work - Can They be Defined and Assessed? 2. The Development of Assessment Techniques and the Formulation of Hypotheses Part II: The Baseline of the Experiment 3. Three Hundred Aged Welfare Clients, their Social and Medical Conditions and their Needs Part III: The Social Work Experiment 4. The 'Special' and 'Comparison' Groups 5. The Social Work 6. The Effect of Social Work 7. Input and Outcome in Relation to Individual Cases 8. The Consumer's Opinion Part IV: Summary and Conclusions 9. Help the Aged - Conclusions and Reflections. Appendix 1: Supplementary Tables. Appendix 2: Methods of Analysis by Mary B. Spark. Index.