Resources for Nursing Home Social Workers
Locating Journal Articles
Below is a list of journals and tips to help you locate journal articles related to long-term-care social work.
To do an electronic search of the literature, consider using any of the keys terms listed below in your search: social work, social services, psychosocial, nursing home, nursing facility, long-term care, residential services, elder services, advocacy
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Make a habit of checking these journals:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work
- Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care
- Journal of Gerontological Nursing
- Topics in Geriatric Rehabilitation
- Generations—American Society on Aging
- The Gerontologist (archive of all online content available at http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/by/year)
- Journal of the American Medical Directors Association