Gerontology

Targeted as the 'grey consumer', people retiring now participated in the creation of the post-war consumer culture. These consumers have grown older but have not stopped consuming. Based on extensive analysis over two years, this unique book examines...

Social welfare workers are frequently motivated by a desire to 'work with people', to 'bring about change' or to 'make a difference'. This valuable book explores some of the difficulties and dilemmas faced by those who deliver welfare in a changing...

What is age? A simple question but not that easy to answer. "Unmasking Age" addresses it using data from a series of research projects relating to later life. This is supplemented by material from a range of other sources including diaries and...

Based on 40 years' interviewing experience, this book illustrates the variety of religious, spiritual and other beliefs held by older people. It provides models of research procedure, especially in the context of bereavement. Participants include not...

Many western nations have experienced a rise in the number of marginalised and deprived inner-city neighbourhoods. Despite a plethora of research focused on these areas, there remain few studies that have sought to capture the 'optimality' of ageing in...

The ageing of the population has enormous implications for the provision of, and access to, health care. Christina Victor's important textbook provides comprehensive overview of the experiences of older people, chapters on physical health, mental health,...

Specialist forms of housing with care are becoming increasingly popular in the United Kingdom, largely as a result of the ageing of the population and the relative wealth of the latest generation of older people. Retirement villages and extra care...

Specialist forms of housing with care are becoming increasingly popular in the United Kingdom, largely as a result of the ageing of the population and the relative wealth of the latest generation of older people. Retirement villages and extra care...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620324158Author Paul TournierFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

The experience of men and women in later life varies enormously, not only along lines of gender but also due to ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and race. In this text on gender issues among the aging, Calasanti and Slevin explore these differences,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681083506Author Marcia SpiraFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Bentham Science PublishersPublisher Bentham Science PublishersWeight(grams) 721g

Aging Studies and Ecocriticism: Interdisciplinary Encounters argues that both aging studies and ecocriticism address the complex dynamics of individual and collective agency, oppression and dependency, care and conviviality, vulnerability and resistance...

Following the development of anti-retroviral therapies (ARVs), many people affected by HIV in the 1980s and 1990s have now been living with the condition for decades. Drawing on perspectives from leading scholars in Bangladesh, Canada, Hong Kong, New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951915087Author Robert LauraFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Retirement ProjectPublisher Retirement ProjectWeight(grams) 327gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798986203911Author Mary Lynn BrookFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Mary Lynn BrookPublisher Mary Lynn BrookWeight(grams) 109g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733135702Author Dot NuechterleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Pearlsww, LLCPublisher Pearlsww, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

This book provides a much-needed introductory guide to the issues surrounding pension policy, not just in the UK but worldwide, and offers a critique of some of the dominant ideas and assumptions. Noting the intense debate that currently surrounds the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788180942129Author S SurendranFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Mjp PublishersPublisher Mjp PublishersWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm *...

Over the next three decades, the number of Americans over fifty will double, swelling to more than a quarter of the population. Already we are living thirty years longer than a century ago, with further gains expected in the coming years. The end result...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946204684Author Haragopal PFormat PaperbackImprint Notion Press, Inc.Publisher Notion Press, Inc.Weight(grams) 125g

Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation is rooted in a discussion about why it is important to address the midlife years in ways that challenge and interrogate the myths that surround this phase of life. Although readers are free to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439246146Author James H Collins Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams)...

Providing a critical humanities approach to ageing, this book addresses new directions in age studies: the meaning and workings of "ageism" in the twenty-first century, the vexed relationship between age and disability studies, the meanings and...

For the governments of many developing African nations, providing income security for the older population is difficult, particularly in Cameroon. This book uncovers the complex problem of pension deficits and difficulties providing welfare and other...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035841431Author Trevor James CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

What special skills and knowledge base do nurses and health care professionals need to work in nursing homes? This volume explores such relevant issues as working with nursing home residents and their families, managing selected special populations, and...

Reporting the results of a study on abuse of the elderly by adult children, Dynamics of Elder Abuse examines the impact that caring for an elderly patient has on the lives of middle-aged and sometimes elderly caregiving offspring. The data are derived...

Investigates the impact of demographic changes on several dimensions of the Brazilian economy and society - particularly its increasingly aging population. It does so in a comprehensive and systematic way that captures the broad complexity of issues,...

-- Social WorkBook InformationISBN 9780231069021Author Abraham MonkFormat HardbackPage Count 696Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

This book explores specific theories on ageing grounded through examination of several issues in social welfare. The book will review different understandings of becoming and being old and how these have been reflected in society in general and social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985687120Author Bromme Hampton ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint China Senior Living LtdPublisher China Senior Living LtdWeight(grams)...

"This is Hannah," Lynne Hugo introduces her chocolate Labrador retriever to an aged woman in a wheelchair at the Golden View Nursing Home. "Would you like to pat her?" "I don't know," she responds warily. "Dogs are...

A specialist in elder care, Dr. Muriel Gillick examines the complications of lives lived far longer than ever before. This book aims to help the frail elderly and their families cope with the often unforeseen dilemmas of aging: the most common chronic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865348554Author Ryan C AmacherFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115304Author Dudley ClendinenFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 363g

Originally published in 1989, Day Brought Back My Night explores the lives of people who have lost sight in late life as a result of age-related visual disorders. As life-expectancy in western society has increased, the number of people who fall into...

Originally published in 1977, Old Age in European Society provides an historical perspective on aging, a process which had received little attention from any group in the social sciences and virtually none from historians at the time. Starting from the...

Local writing on the subject of old age had tended to a fairly uniform approach, focusing on empirical studies of old age as a social problem using census and survey-type data. Little attention had been paid to theory development. Originally published in...

The care of elderly people, particularly those who are frail, is a major task facing society. Originally published in 1981, this book considers the challenge of caring from a social work perspective. It locates social work with elderly people firmly...

Of all the problems associated with a rapidly growing aging population, health care demands top priority. Research on health care for older people requires an understanding of the basic principles of aging and its related social processes, while popular...