Social Welfare for Indigenous Elders

The Native Health Database is provided by the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center. The database provides students with scholarly articles in health information pertaining to indigenous people of North America. Students will also find additional links to Tribal Epidemiology Centers. The database is easy to use with four different ways to search and provides a video tutorial in using the database.

The Gerontologist Journal, presented by the Gerontological Society of America, offers scholarly, peer-reviewed articles and research on aging adult issues. Many journal articles are free and provide a good starting point for further research. Students will benefit from the perspectives of academics representing multiple disciplines throughout academia on aging adult issues.

Encyclopedia of Social Work presents authoritative information in the field of Social Work. Students can return to this information source throughout their academic career for a broad range of information within their field. This online encyclopedia presents search results with the keyword highlighted, a list of relevant subjects, date of publication, and if the result is paid or free. Great source for scholarly literature on broad topics of social work which will also include Indigenous Elder Social Welfare.

As part of the Native American Studies program in the Department of Ethnic Studies at The University of California at Berkeley, this LibGuide provides students a starting point to gaining scholarly knowledge on indigenous social welfare as well as decolonizing social work as it pertains to indigenous elders. The LibGuide offers multiple types of information sources from videos, to links to professional organizations, to journals, as well as search suggestions for finding books using Library of Congress Subject Headings. Each of these information sources could be used to further a search for social welfare issues specific to elders.