Download or read book Respect for the Elderly written by Kyu-t'ak Sŏng and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with the fundamental issues of elder respect, how it is practiced and perceived in the broad context of human service settings, and with the resolution of those issues. The writings presented in this book describe the role of elder respect in health, social work, religious, and cultural and ethnic settings. The authors aim for elder respect to be better understood by professionals in human services as well as by those people who care for elderly relatives in the East and the West. Book jacket.