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Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession: Global Perspectives by Sarah Lamb 9780813585338
RRP: £41.00£36.93In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an inspirational vision of successful aging-striving through medical technique and individual effort to eradicate the declines, vulnerabilities, and dependencies previously commonly associated with... -
Biblical Perspectives on Aging: God and the Elderly, Second Edition by J. Gordon Harris
RRP: £53.99£46.87As the population of older Americans grows, meaningful perspectives on aging are needed by both the young and the old. Biblical Perspectives on Aging: God and the Elderly takes a detailed look at the views of aging presented in the Old and New Testaments... -
Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment by Chris Gilleard 9781783083374
RRP: £25.00£23.30'Ageing, Corporeality and Embodiment' outlines and develops an argument about the emergence of a 'new ageing' during the second half of the twentieth century and its realisation through the processes of 'embodiment'. The authors argue that ageing as a... -
The Big 100: The Coming Age of Super-Aging by William J. Kole
RRP: £26.99£17.98"Stimulating and inspiring. . . ." -Dr. Jane Goodall, founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of PeaceJournalist William J. Kole, reluctant but newly minted member of AARP, explores the looming era of super-aging-incredibly longer lifespans... -
Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure: Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology by Jan Baars 9781447300892
RRP: £30.99£23.74Ageing, meaning and social structure is a unique book advancing critical discourse in gerontology and makes a major contribution to understanding key social and ethical dilemmas facing ageing societies. It confronts and integrates approaches that have... -
Ending Ageism or, How Not to Shoot Old People by Margaret Morganroth Gullette 9780813589282
RRP: £31.00£26.84Winner of the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars and the APA's Florence L. Denmark Award for Contributions to Women and Aging When the term "ageism" was coined in 1969, many problems of exclusion seemed resolved by government programs like Social... -
The SAGE Handbook of Social Gerontology by Dale Dannefer 9781446270479
RRP: £30.00£25.17"This SAGE Handbook integrates basic research on social dimensions of aging. It presents programmatic applications of research in areas not often seen in Handbooks including imprisonment, technology and aging, urban society aged, and elderly... -
Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain by Charlotte Greenhalgh 9780520298798
RRP: £30.00£22.82As today's baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in the British welfare state. Using innovative research methods, Charlotte Greenhalgh sheds light on the experiences of elderly people in... -
The Futures of Old Age by John A. Vincent
RRP: £44.99£36.74What is the future of old age? How will families, services, and economies adapt to an older population? Such questions often provoke extreme and opposing answers: some see ageing populations as having the potential to undermine economic growth and... -
Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care: Global and National Perspectives by Bethany Simmonds
RRP: £26.99£20.84Neoliberal political discourses have normalised the belief in northern European countries that individuals are responsible for their health and wellbeing, regardless of social class, gender or ethnic background. Drawing on examples from Germany, Sweden... -
Key Concepts in Social Gerontology by Judith E. Phillips 9781412922722
RRP: £36.99£30.39"Far from a dictionary, the concepts are portrayed as complex, and conflicting definitions and usages are both noted and evaluated... Each article includes a (necessarily selective) set of references, and cross-references to other concepts included... -
Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age by Paul Higgs 9781447319061
RRP: £27.99£21.57How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by age and infirmity. It... -
Feminism & Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods by Tess Coslett
RRP: £47.99£41.81Featuring essays by leading feminist scholars from a variety of disciplines, this key text explores the latest developments in autobiographical studies. The collection is structured around the inter-linked concepts of genre, inter-subjectivity and memory... -
Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: A Global Perspective by Tine Buffel 9781447331346
RRP: £29.99£23.02As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories and policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people living in urban areas. In this book, part of the Ageing in a... -
Ageing, Insight and Wisdom: Meaning and Practice across the Lifecourse by Ricca Edmondson 9781847425591
RRP: £29.99£23.02This book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the evolving values, priorities and ways of communicating that make later life fascinating. It explores what creating 'meaning' in later life really implies, for older... -
The Social Context of Ageing: A Textbook of Gerontology by Christina Victor 9780415221405
RRP: £42.99£37.59This comprehensive text focuses on the social contexts of ageing, looking at the diversity of ageing and older people, and at different factors that are important to experiences of old age and ageing. It includes key chapters on:theoretical and... -
Precarity and Ageing: Understanding Insecurity and Risk in Later Life by Amanda Grenier
RRP: £24.99£19.39What risks and insecurities do older people face in a time of both increased longevity and widening inequality? This edited collection develops an exciting new approach to understanding the changing cultural, economic and social circumstances facing... -
Living Through Loss: Interventions Across the Life Span by Nancy R. Hooyman
RRP: £30.00£23.22Living Through Loss is the first book to identify the many ways in which people experience loss over the course of life and to discuss the interventions most effective at each stage of life. The authors' starting point is that loss comes in many forms... -
The Child–Parent Caregiving Relationship in Later Life: Psychosocial Experiences by Bethany Morgan Brett 9781447319696
RRP: £26.99£20.84This book presents a sensitive account of the challenges faced by adult children when making difficult decisions about care for and with their ageing parents in later life. It offers new insights into the practical, emotional and physical effects that... -
Agewise: Fighting the New Ageism in America by Margaret Morganroth Gullette
RRP: £23.00£22.13In Agewise, renowned cultural critic Margaret Morganroth Gullette reveals that much of what we dread about aging is actually the result of ageism - which we can, and should, battle as strongly as we do racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry. A... -
Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes: Flexible Boundaries by Hugh Armstrong
RRP: £27.99£21.57EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic has made unpaid care more visible through its absence, while also increasing the need for it. Drawing on a range of research projects covering Canada, Germany,... -
Men, Masculinities, and Aging: The Gendered Lives of Older Men by Thompson 9781442278554
RRP: £35.00£33.64Men, Masculinities, and Aging introduces readers to the gendered nature of aging men's lives. Edward H. Thompson, noted for his work on men and aging, explores the intersections of ethnicities, class, geographies, generations, and masculinities. The book... -
Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives by John Percival
RRP: £85.99£66.10The main objective of this edited volume is to explore the motivations, decision making processes, and consequences, when older people consider or accomplish return migration to their place of origin; and also to raise the public policy profile of this... -
The Penelope Project: An Arts-Based Odyssey to Change Elder Care by Anne Basting 9781609384135
RRP: £21.95£16.38Of the 15,000 nursing homes in the United States, how many are places you'd want to visit, much less live in? Now that people are living longer and more of the population are elderly, this question is more important than ever, particularly for people... -
Ageing, health and care by Christina R. Victor 9781847420879
RRP: £26.99£20.84The 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,... -
Critical perspectives on ageing societies by Miriam Bernard 9781861348906
RRP: £29.99£23.02This important book brings together some of the best known international scholars working within a critical gerontology perspective. Together, they review and update our understanding of how the field has developed over the last twenty-five years and,... -
Social Divisions and Later Life: Difference, Diversity and Inequality by Chris Gilleard 9781447338604
RRP: £26.99£20.84As the population ages, this book reveals how divides that are apparent through childhood and working life change and are added to in later life. Two internationally renowned experts in ageing look beyond longstanding factors like class, gender and... -
Psychotherapy with Older Adults by Bob G. Knight 9780761923732
RRP: £121.00£113.85This Third Edition of the bestselling Psychotherapy with Older Adults continues to offer students and professionals a thorough overview of psychotherapy with older adults. Using the contextual, cohort-based, maturity, specific challenge (CCMSC) model, it... -
Age Matters: Re-Aligning Feminist Thinking by Toni M. Calasanti 9780415952248
RRP: £39.99£35.06This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men... -
The Politics of Healthcare in Britain by Stephen Harrison 9780761941606
RRP: £42.99£35.15'This is an excellent textbook for which there is currently a niche in the market. The chapters on rationing, professionalism, politics of clinical knowledge and the politics of democracy and participation are particularly strong and will be invaluable... -
Ageing of the Oppressed: A Pandemic of Intersecting Injustice by Shirley R. Steinberg 9781433195303
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Crossroads after 50: Improving Choices in Work and Retirement by Donald Hirsch 9781859351550
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Managing the Ageing Experience: Learning from Older People by Denise Tanner 9781861348869
£79.99Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Social Theory and Aging by Jason L. Powell 9780742519541
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Celebrate the Harvest: A Guide to the Spiritual Needs and Religious Life of Older Adults by Deacon William Bell 9781039132849
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Constructing the Life Course by James A. Holstein 9781882289677
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Baby Boomers, Age, and Beauty by Dr Naomi Woodspring 9781787542365
RRP: £24.99£20.90This book is a rich exploration of the baby boomers - those coming of age in the sixties and now entering old age - the influences that have shaped how they perceive ageing appearance, how they define ageing and beauty, and the meaning of appearance,... -
Gerontechnology: Understanding Older Adult Information and Communication Technology Use by Johanna L.H. Birkland 9781787432925
RRP: £20.99£17.75The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched Funding, and is freely available to read online. Our aging societies have become increasingly digitalized, leading to concerns that older adults (those age 65 and older) will... -
Aging Bodies: Images and Everyday Experience by Christopher A. Faircloth 9780759102361
RRP: £42.00£38.05Western thought traditionally divides the human being into a body-mind dualism, a divide realized in the divergent research fields of geriatrics and gerontology; the first examines the physical body, and the second focuses instead upon psychological and... -
The Reason Why Traditional Nursing Homes in America SUCK: & How Anyone Can Help Bring About the CHANGES for Every Single Nursing Home in America Today by Roberta Weathers 9781452892849
RRP: £11.50£10.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781452892849Author Roberta WeathersFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...