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

Search engines:

• Google Scholar 
• Highwire Press
• PubMed
• Web of Knowledge

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