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Aging America and Transportation: Personal Choices and Public Policy by Joseph F. Coughlin 9780826123152
RRP: $73.52$59.66This solution-focused volume fills a gap in the literature by addressing the key issues around mobility and transportation for the aging Baby Boomer generation--issues that will be significantly different than those of previous generations of older... -
Residential Choices And Experiences Of Older Adults: Pathways to Life Quality by John A. Krout 9780826119544
RRP: $101.90$82.51Based on the Pathways to Life Quality longitudinal research study, this book explores the ways in which older adults' residential choices impact their health and well-being. The study examines the factors associated with life quality for persons living... -
Ethics, Aging and Society: The Critical Turn by Martha B. Holstein 9780826116345
RRP: $64.49$52.50Ethics, Aging and Society...is the first major work in ten years to critically address issues and methodologies in aging and ethics...This well-organized volume begins theoretically and offers new ways of thinking about ethics that can handle the... -
Gerontology: Perspectives and Issues by Janet M. Wilmoth 9780826109651
RRP: $78.68$63.75This newest edition of a core graduate level textbook has added six new chapters to further enrich the ""gerontological imagination,"" and encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of aging. Academically rigorous yet clear... -
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 31, 2011: Pathways Through The Transitions of Care for Older Adults by Peggye Dilworth-Anderson 9780826107930
RRP: $87.71$70.91This unique volume, with its person- and context-centred focus, is the only book to emphasize the need to incorporate social, cultural, and demographics into transitional care protocol for elderly patients. It encompasses the larger context of life... -
Dementia Care with Black and Latino Families: A Social Work Problem Solving Approach by Delia Gonzalez Sanders 9780826106773
RRP: $60.62$49.43As America's population ages and becomes more ethnically diverse, there is growing need for social workers to treat not only individuals afflicted with dementia and their families, but to also understand this illness through the eyes of different ethnic... -
The Self and Society in Aging Process by Carol D. Ryff 9780826112675
RRP: $101.90$83.02This volume focuses on the experience of growing old as it is linked to societal factors. Ryff and Marshall construct this "macro" view of aging in society by bridging disciplines and brining together contributors from all the social sciences. ... -
Gerontological Supervision: A Social Work Perspective in Case Management and Direct Care by Ann Burack Weiss 9780789024220
RRP: $167.70$144.62The growing population of aging Americans is bringing with it thousands of new workers into agencies serving the elderly each year. Now, the need for supervisors to administer and train staff in programs for older persons is increasing as well. This is a... -
Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction: Training for Success by Francis A. McGuire 9780789013248
RRP: $61.91$53.93Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction: Training for Success examines established intergenerational programs and provides the training methods necessary for activity directors or practitioners to start a similar program. This book... -
Public Policy and the Old Age Revolution in Japan by Scott A. Bass 9780789000125
RRP: $49.01$43.06Thirty years ago, when compared to the U.S., England, France, and Sweden, Japan had the lowest life expectancy for males and females. Today, Japan has the highest life expectancy and is the world's most rapidly aging society. Public Policy and the Old... -
Silver Shades Of Grey: Memos For Successful Ageing In The 21st Century by Kanwaljit Soin 9789813231337
RRP: $58.05$50.94Are you a young person? Middle-aged? Old? It doesn't really matter. Each of us grows older every second. Most of us age without taking charge of our life course, without a plan for our ageing. Each dip into these short chapters offers some operating... -
Silver Shades Of Grey: Memos For Successful Ageing In The 21st Century by Kanwaljit Soin 9789813233737
RRP: $32.25$28.11Are you a young person? Middle-aged? Old? It doesn't really matter. Each of us grows older every second. Most of us age without taking charge of our life course, without a plan for our ageing. Each dip into these short chapters offers some operating... -
Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies by Jeanne Shea 9781789207880
RRP: $141.90$114.75East Asia is home to some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Known for Confucian filial piety and adult children caring for elderly parents at home, these societies are experiencing unprecedented social challenges to traditional... -
Aging in Today's World: Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician by Stanley M. Aronson 9781571810809
RRP: $36.06$29.13Never before in human existence have the aged been so numerous - and for the most part - healthy. In this important new book, two professionals, an anthropologist and a physician, wrestle with the complex subject of aging. Is it inevitable? Is it a... -
Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands by Świtek Beata 9781800730168
RRP: $36.06$29.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800730168Author Świtek BeataFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Berghahn BooksPublisher Berghahn Books -
Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration by Azra Hromadzic 9781785338007
RRP: $114.81$92.75World-wide migration has an unsettling effect on social structures, especially on aging populations and eldercare. This volume investigates how taken-for-granted roles are challenged, intergenerational relationships transformed, economic ties... -
Aging and the Digital Life Course by David Prendergast 9781785335013
RRP: $36.06$29.13Across the life course, new forms of community, ways of keeping in contact, and practices for engaging in work, healthcare, retail, learning and leisure are evolving rapidly. Breaking new ground in the study of technology and aging, this book examines... -
Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands by Beata Switek 9781785332692
RRP: $127.71$102.98Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers' relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their... -
Transitions and Transformations: Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course by Caitrin Lynch 9781782389064
RRP: $36.06$29.13Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within... -
Aging and the Digital Life Course by David Prendergast 9781782386919
RRP: $127.71$103.50Across the life course, new forms of community, ways of keeping in contact, and practices for engaging in work, healthcare, retail, learning and leisure are evolving rapidly. Breaking new ground in the study of technology and aging, this book examines... -
Changing Worlds and the Ageing Subject: Dimensions in the Study of Ageing and Later Life by Britt-Marie Oberg 9781138619043
RRP: $50.30$44.14Research into ageing and later life has tended to describe old age in relation to society's problems concerning health and social care. Today demographic changes, current advancements in technology, and political and socio-cultural developments also... -
Our Bodies Not Ourselves: WOMEN AGING FROM MENOPAUSE TO ONE HUNDRED by Kathryn A. Kirigin 9781138602373
RRP: $174.15$151.29In 1970, the best-seller Our Bodies Ourselves was published. The focus of the authors, the Boston Health Collective, was on the youthful female body: on reproduction, sexuality, genitalia, intimacy and relationships in the context of North American... -
Growing Old in America: New Perspectives on Old Age by Beth Hess 9781138524590
RRP: $148.35$128.17Modern industrial societies are characterized by long-term declines in fertility and steady increases in life expectancy. Together, these trends result in an aging population. The United States is no exception; since 1969 the median age has risen from 29... -
The Privatization of Care: The Case of Nursing Homes by Pat Armstrong 9781138346017
RRP: $174.15$151.29Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it difficult to make care as good as it can be. For the last eight years an international team from Germany, Sweden, Norway, the UK, the US... -
At Home in a Nursing Home: An Ethnography of Movement and Care in Australia by Angela Rong Yang Zhang 9781800736641
RRP: $127.71$102.98Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking answers, the author examines what it means to be ‘at... -
The Gerontology Field Placement: Internships and Practicums in Aging by Rona J. Karasik 9780826150448
RRP: $86.42$69.89The first book to focus specifically on practical gerontology field experiences This innovative text guides gerontology students step by step through the process of searching for, securing, and completing an aging-based internship, practicum, or field... -
Aging in Today's World: Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician by Stanley M. Aronson 9781571814203
RRP: $127.71$102.98Never before in human existence have the aged been so numerous - and for the most part - healthy. In this important new book, two professionals, an anthropologist and a physician, wrestle with the complex subject of aging. Is it inevitable? Is it a... -
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 41, 2021: Black Older Adults in the Era of Black Lives Matter by Roland J Thorpe 9780826166319
RRP: $145.76$117.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826166319Author Roland J ThorpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Springer Publishing CompanyPublisher Springer Publishing CompanyWeight(grams) 152g -
Fear of Crime Among the Elderly: A Multi-Method Study of the Small Town Experience by Mary Dale Craig 9780367604998
RRP: $34.82$30.26First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780367604998Author Mary Dale CraigFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 470g -
Occupational Therapy with Older People Into the 21st Century by Gail Anne Mountain 9781837530434
RRP: $103.20$85.93There has been significant societal and global change in recent years with accompanying shifts in how older people are perceived by societies across the world. Different treatment and care possibilities are emerging but concerns about the implications of... -
Polymath: The Life and Professions of Dr Alex Comfort, Author of The Joy of Sex by Eric Laursen 9781849354967
RRP: $34.83$22.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849354967Author Eric LaursenFormat PaperbackPage Count 648Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press -
Well-being In Later Life: The Notion of Connected Autonomy by Linda Garcia 9781032137094
RRP: $161.25$139.14Advancing the notion of connected autonomy, and highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research in the development of this novel concept, this volume explores the possibility of maintaining the freedom to make one's own decisions in later life,... -
The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing: Global Perspectives by Marvin Formosa 9781032292632
RRP: $46.43$40.88The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue of ageing in the 21st-century. It focuses on three priority areas: older persons and development; advancing health and well-being... -
The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing: Global Perspectives by Marvin Formosa 9781032292625
RRP: $161.25$139.14The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue of ageing in the 21st-century. It focuses on three priority areas: older persons and development; advancing health and well-being... -
Fair Share: Senior Activism, Tiny Publics, and the Culture of Resistance by Gary Alan Fine 9780226823812
RRP: $103.20$98.83A deeply researched ethnographic portrait of progressive senior activists in Chicago who demonstrate how a tiny public wields collective power to advocate for broad social change. If you've ever been to a protest or been involved in a social movement,... -
Ageing and Families: A Support Networks Perspective by Hal L. Kendig 9781032530512
$121.26Originally published in 1986, this title was a landmark study of ageing in Australia and a major contribution to the study of gerontology at the time. It highlights major themes on ageing in ‘western’ industrialised societies, as well as pinpointing new,... -
Care Homes in a Turbulent Era: Do They Have A Future? by Pat Armstrong 9781803925813
$111.73This thoughtful book provides a refreshing, comparative perspective on the future of care homes in our post-pandemic world. Building on more than a decade of collaborative international and interdisciplinary research in Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden,... -
Health and Care in Ageing Societies: A New International Approach by Liz Lloyd 9781861349187
RRP: $38.69$29.70In the context of global ageing societies, there are few challenges to the underlying assumption that policies should promote functional health and independence in older people and contain the costs of care. This important book offers such a challenge... -
The New Old: How the Boomers Are Changing Everything...Again by David Cravit 9781550228434
RRP: $24.50$16.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550228434Author David CravitFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 342g -
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 38, 2018: Environments in an Aging Society: Autobiographical Perspectives in Environmental Gerontology by Habib Chaudhury
RRP: $125.12$101.43Through the autobiographical perspectives of 16 preeminent researchers and scholars of Environmental Gerontology, this state-of-the-art Annual Review critically examines the broad range of topics that comprise this interdisciplinary field. The writings...