JAMDA
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 36-44, January 2009

Characteristics of Nursing Home Social Services Directors: How Common is a Degree in Social Work?

  • Mercedes Bern-Klug, PhD, MSW

      Affiliations

    • The School of Social Work and The Aging Studies Program, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to Mercedes Bern-Klug, PhD, MSW, The School of Social Work and The Aging Studies Program, Room 308 North Hall, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242
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  • Katherine W.O. Kramer, MA

      Affiliations

    • College of Public Health/Epidemiology Program, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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  • Grace Chan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington CT
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  • Rosalie Kane, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Health Policy & Management, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
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  • Lorraine T. Dorfman, PhD

      Affiliations

    • The School of Social Work, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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  • Jennifer B. Saunders, MSW

      Affiliations

    • Social Work Research Consultant, Denver, CO

published online 26 September 2008.

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 This project was supported by a John A. Hartford Geriatric Social Work Faculty Scholars Award to Dr. Bern-Klug. Drs. Kane and Dorfman served as mentors on the Hartford Project. Additional support was provided through awards from the Old Gold Summer Fellowship and the Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, both of the University of Iowa. The authors would like to acknowledge assistance from social work students Peggy Sharr, Inez Cruz, and LaTiche Bush-Lane.

PII: S1525-8610(08)00258-2

doi:10.1016/j.jamda.2008.06.011

JAMDA
Volume 10, Issue 1 , Pages 36-44, January 2009

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