Adulthood & Aging

Processes of Aging: Social and Psychological Perspectives is based on a monumental series of studies on the psychological and social aspects of aging in relation to mental health. This effort gives scientists from North America and Europe an opportunity...

Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Eighth Edition, tackles the biological and environmental influences on behavior as well as the reciprocal interface between changes in the brain and behavior during the course of the adult life span. The...

In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr. Norman Straker proposes that "death anxiety" is responsible for the American society's failure to address costly futile care at the end of life; more specifically,...

LGBT older adults experience issues and challenges that are unique, including institutional heteronormativity, heterosexism in organizations, and homophobia among caregivers and social service providers. This book presents a diverse group of scholars,...

This volume is the fourth in a series designed to facilitate inter-disciplinary communication between scientists concerned with the description of societal phenomena and those investigating adult development. As such, it contains a compilation of papers...

Reliable, easily administered, and objective ways of assessing the well-being of the elderly and their use of, and need for, services are rare. The author of this study provides current information on the Multidimensional Functional Assessment of Older...

This book assembles 11 of the leading thinkers and researchers in the field of family psychology to create a compendium summarizing both what psychology researchers have learned about the family and where the field should be going next. It evolved after...

Silver Universe explores the topic of aging through an interdisciplinary lens while promoting their new idea of "active living" which incorporates exercise alongside a healthy diet and the implementation of disease prevention. The diverse group...

The goal of this volume is to examine development in middle age from the perspective of baby boomers -- a unique cohort in the United States defined as those individuals born from 1946 to 1962. This is the largest cohort ever to enter middle age in...

Any parent who has raised more than one child is likely to be keenly aware of subtle or even striking differences among their offspring. The central premise of this volume is that children bring personal qualities to their relationships with other family...

Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo, author of the Eat Right 4 Your Type series-with more than two million copies in print-has developed a brand-new, targeted plan for fighting the effects of advancing years. With specific tools unavailable anywhere else, here is an...

Do you fear that growing old means being trapped in a body filled with aches, pains, sags, and losses? Too many of us do-especially women. Though our youth-obsessed society is partly to blame, Dr. Susan Sands explains there is a deeper and unrecognized...

This book examines the issues and implications that mental health professionals face when dealing with ageing and older adults. The book focuses on the biological, psychological and cultural influences that impact on the work of mental health...

The reference is a broad-ranging review of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias from both basic and clinical neuroscience perspectives; it provides scientists and medical professionals with an extensive introduction and an up-to-date review of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990268359Author Penny ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Tomas EdwardsPublisher Tomas EdwardsWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 10mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316488877Author Claudia M GoldFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Little, Brown SparkPublisher Little, Brown & CompanyWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)...

Health and social care practitioners are increasingly called upon to provide care to elderly people from a number of different faiths and cultures. This collection of essays examines ageing in the context of the many faiths and cultures that make up...

Getting Old offers concise advice and practical suggestions for all readers interested in or worried about ageing, either in themselves or in someone they care about. With a focus on a positive view of ageing, it discusses central physical and mental...

Winner of the 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Award for Non-fictionA poignant, complex and hugely resonant memoir about the shift from being a daughter to a guardian and caregiver, by a prizewinning author.From Elizabeth Hay, one of Canada's most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250080912Author Jonathan RauchFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 135mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062998989Author Rainesford StaufferFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Tells how to learn from job assignments, fellow workers, and hardships, shares the lessons of successful executives, and shows how to evaluate the developmental value of a job.Book InformationISBN 9780669180954Author Morgan W. McCallFormat HardbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733433808Author Rita S WilkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Design Services LtdPublisher Design Services LtdWeight(grams) 218gDimensions(mm)...

This book examines the growing importance of positive psychology and its connection to later life. Applies Social Role Valorisation (SVR) principles to care of older people, particularly those with seriously disabling conditions such as dementia,...

This book explores the practical application of recent improvements in technology for people living with dementia and highlights the positive outcomes on care, quality of life, and services on patients through exploration of 15 research projects to...

It is no exaggeration to say that motivational interviewing (MI) has transformed the culture of clinical practice and the way healthcare practitioners and researchers understand behavior change. MI, as an empirically supported therapeutic approach, has...

This is both a memoir of childhood trauma and a searing work of social criticism. Through his own experience of clerical abuse and his struggle with the system that allowed it to happen, the author documents an important period of social change in...

For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in...

Great Myths of Aging looks at the generalizations and stereotypes associated with older people and, with a blend of humor and cutting-edge research, dispels those common myths. * Reader-friendly structure breaks myths down into categories such as Body,...

Each year millions of American adults visit a childhood home. Few can anticipate the effect it will have on them. Often serving several important psychological needs, these trips are not intended as visits with people from their past. Rather, those...

In Narratives of Positive Aging, Amia Lieblich presents a qualitative study that explores the life narratives of elderly men and women who engage in practices of "positive aging." They belong to a spontaneous community that assembles daily, early in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733687409Author Marilyn L BusheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Choices NextPublisher Choices NextWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This is the only available comprehensive monograph on interrelations and interdependencies between agonistic and sexual behaviors. Integrating theory and research from biology, anthropology, neurophysiology, endocrinology, psychophysiology, and...

In the popular imagination, retirement promises a well-deserved rest-idle days spent traveling, volunteering, pursuing hobbies, or just puttering around the house. But as the nature of work has changed, becoming not just a means of income but a major...

Although the field of lifespan human development began officially only fifty years ago in the U.S., a groundswell of research has been conducted in the last two decades. The fields of psychology of aging and adult development have considered cognitive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984496099Author Dionne L JordanFormat PaperbackImprint It's Bold PublishingPublisher It's Bold PublishingWeight(grams) 95g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313247859Author C. G. PradoFormat HardbackPage Count 185Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

The newly retired are entering a time of life that is virtually uncharted, a time in which they are free from social expectations and, to a large extent, from obligations to others. Life's meanings are no longer provided by work and family. Instead, men...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989682763Author Keith WittFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Integral PublishersPublisher Integral PublishersWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990441939Author Marc GafniFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Integral PublishersPublisher Integral PublishersWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...