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Barry D. Lebowitz, "Elaine was really among the very first people to say, 'No, no, no, that's a cliche, a myth, a distortion'. She said most older people are deeply embedded in the lives of families and the family is really the thing we ought to be talking about." She provided coverage of research,
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called Brody "one of the first social work practitioners to simultaneously conduct research of clients" and noted her works allowed to establish specialized aging studies. Her co-worker, director of
Research and Evaluation at the Philadelphia Corporation for Aging Allen Glicksman, stated she was an
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important factor in helping social workers to become researchers, "She was a path-breaker in showing that social work matters. She demonstrated this and — through research — made colleagues pay attention. She made a difference at the research level and also the policy level. She set the pattern."
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was published after interviewing adult children who cared for their elderly parents, particularly women. It examined pressures, trends and values that created problems in women doing elderly care as they brought up their children at the same time. The GSA selected Brody as the recipient of the M.
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that same year, noting few studies on the aged population of the United States had been done in the prior 15 years. In 1971, she was made head of a project to prepare a manual of long term care for the elderly for use by agency social workers, administrators, nurses, and physicians to help them
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in social work. She was employed as director of human resources and associate director at the
Philadelphia Geriatric Center, which later expanded to researching the effects of aging elderly persons and their families. Additionally, Brody taught psychiatry at the
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understand the potential of social work in caring and treating the elderly. Brody conducted an institute on “Problems
Affecting the Family in the Aging Process” in 1973, which investigated the changes in the family structure in the 20th century.
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influenced her comprehension of poverty and the likely collapse of a family. Overall she published more than 200 academic works and six books in a career lasting six decades. Brody died of respiratory failure at her home in
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magazine, for recording difficulties faced by "women in the middle", a term she used to refer to working mothers bringing up their children and caring for their elderly parents simultaneously. She wrote another book,
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policy, and practice with her ability to combine the intersections of economic pressure and gender, and was informed of a resistance to family propaganda by being knowledgeable on the state of long-term care.
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