Gerontology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798218181628Author Patrick FalkFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Petrick Sales AgencyPublisher Petrick Sales AgencyWeight(grams) 581g

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

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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...

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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...

This book brings together key scholars and practitioners from a range of fields in order to advance epidemiological and gerontological research into the role of religion in physical, psychosocial and mental health. Part One addresses such issues as hope,...

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)...

Why do we, as adults, have the personality characteristics we do? No one explanation is accepted by all; however, in this greatly expanded version of his earlier book, Personality Development in Adulthood, Wrightsman helps us understand and organize the...

"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

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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...

The twentieth century saw twin developments in Britain: changes in the pattern of employment, producing the institution of retirement; and demographic changes resulting in an ageing population. In the 1980s, these phenomena stimulated interest and...

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...

Originally published in 1985, Ageing: Recent Advances and Creative Responses contains a selection of the papers contributed to the British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference, held in Leeds in September 1984. The book examines some of the positive...

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...

What is it like to be an isolated old widow, living alone on the bare old-age pension? In the 1960s, the question had become a standard refrain. Originally published in 1966, this was the first full-length study by a sociologist of isolation in old age...

Originally published in 1986, Dependency and Interdependency in Old Age presents papers from the British Society of Gerontology annual conference in 1985. The areas covered include: the sociology of ageing, methodological issues, evaluations of service...

By the early 1970s the psychology of age had become an extremely important topic in the field. In the present book, originally published in 1973, the authors are particularly concerned with the subject of intellectual functioning. The assessment of...

At the beginning of the 1980s, the previous few decades had been characterised by a ‘population explosion’ amongst the older age groups. Due to the success of medical science at prolonging life, this phenomenon had been experienced throughout both the...

Originally published in 1987, Social Gerontology presents papers from the British Society of Gerontology annual conference held at the University of Glasgow in September 1986. It shows much of the most innovative research and thinking in social...

In the early 1980s, it had only recently been appreciated that what was known of the epidemiology of dementia in the elderly living in the community was just the tip of a large iceberg. Originally published in 1984, reissued here with a new preface, this...

Visual disability (including blindness) is of major significance among the elderly, and since it is so crucial to the quality of life of the elderly, it is necessary for all professional staff concerned with old people to have an understanding of the...

Originally published in 1960 and revised in 1964 the blurb for Facing Retirement read:“Mature men and women are not afraid of advancing years. More and more seek to prepare themselves for retirement so that they may then find all the happiness they can...