Gerontology

'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...

Older Americans experience stages of aging with distinct priorities. For younger retirees, climate can be most important; for older retirees, quality of health care. Various states support these and other priorities to sharply different degrees. While...

Older Americans experience stages of aging with distinct priorities. For younger retirees, climate can be most important; for older retirees, quality of health care. Various states support these and other priorities to sharply different degrees. While...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919227924Author David SkeltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Skelton booksPublisher Its a Jungle Ltd

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826514288Author David Barton SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Vanderbilt University PressPublisher Vanderbilt University PressWeight(grams)...

Due to falling fertility rates, the ageing of the baby-boom cohort, and increases in life expectancy, the percentage of the population that is elderly is expected to increase rapidly in the United States and Japan over the first two decades of the 21st...

"This extraordinary book is yet another example of a growing tradition-a literature of compelling and edifying oral history. Dr. Salber has worked for years in one of North Carolina's rural areas, and doing so, has come to know certain elderly people...

A book whose purpose is to offer guidance to individuals, organizations and agencies on how to develop day care programmes for patients with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. A range of programme aspects are covered from administrative details...

This work is based upon a research study whose purpose was to collect new information about the special benefits and drawbacks of formal organizations' efforts at social network building for older women. In it, a two-tiered investigation was carried out:...

Despite the abundance of retirement communities in the US, none compare to The Villages in Central Florida. Home to nearly 150,000 residents and spanning an area larger than Manhattan, it is the world's largest retirement community and the only one that...

Despite the abundance of retirement communities in the US, none compare to The Villages in Central Florida. Home to nearly 150,000 residents and spanning an area larger than Manhattan, it is the world's largest retirement community and the only one that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636804286Author Peter H DiamandisFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Ethos CollectivePublisher Ethos CollectiveWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636804279Author Peter H DiamandisFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Ethos CollectivePublisher Ethos CollectiveWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620972014Author Ai-Jen PooFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint The New PressPublisher The New Press

This volume is subtitled "New Frontiers in Socialization". With a combination of invited and author initiated papers - all anonymously peer reviewed - this volume seeks to produce a cohesive source of information on socialization and the life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798885045131Author Keren` EtkinFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint New Degree PressPublisher New Degree PressWeight(grams) 386g

In this important new book, Paul Higgs and Chris Gilleard demonstrate how an effective sociology of later life is critical for understanding the ageing societies of the twenty-first century.Rethinking the Sociology of Ageing situates ageing firmly within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039132856Author Deacon William BellFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989547000Author Ph D Marian Leah KnappFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Loagy Bay PressPublisher Loagy Bay PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700124733Author Susanne FormanekFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781544523149Author Annemarie HayekFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Lioncrest PublishingPublisher Lioncrest PublishingWeight(grams) 499g

The book presents critical perspectives on population ageing. In particular, the contributions take issue with the demographic determinism (apocalyptic demography) that has taken hold in Canada whereby population ageing, specifically the ageing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951985929Author Debbie Ann ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Virtualbookworm.com PublishingPublisher Virtualbookworm.com PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786075913193Author Martinique Acha AlemánFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Editorial NunPublisher Editorial NunWeight(grams) 222g

Healthy Aging in Action: Roles, Functions, and the Wisdom of Elders helps readers gain a deeper understanding of what it means to age healthfully throughout the lifespan, but especially during the later stages of life when new identities, roles,...

This important book addresses a growing international interest in 'age-friendly' communities. It examines the conflicting stereotypes of rural communities as either idyllic and supportive or isolated and bereft of services. Providing detailed information...

Evidence of widening inequalities in later life raises concerns about the ways in which older adults might experience forms of social exclusion. Such concerns are evident in all societies as they seek to come to terms with the unprecedented ageing of...

Health programmes that offer >help to self-help< are meant to empower ageing adults to remain independent and self-sufficient at home for as long as possible. But what happens when the private home becomes a political realm in which state intervention...

This examination of the history, development, activities, successes, and limitations of the largest membership organization in the country will be of interest to anyone who belongs to or is curious about this sometimes-controversial group. AARP is one of...

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781560321248Author Nelda SamarelFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Taylor & Francis IncPublisher Taylor & Francis...

This book will help readers to better understand and address a strange social phenomenon: the apparent choice by some seniors to live in squalor. Seniors and Squalor examines the widespread and growing phenomenon of mentally competent senior citizens...

This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 1, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews of the very latest research on ageing. Together they report the outcomes of the most concerted investigation ever undertaken into both...

To understand contemporary ageing it is necessary to recognise its diversity. Drawing on an extraordinary range of theory, original research and empirical sources, this book assesses the stereotyped conceptions of ageing, and offers a critical and...

This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 2, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews of the very latest research on ageing. It reports the outcomes of the most concerted investigation ever undertaken into both the...

For a shockingly high number of older people, growing older is not the media's soft-focus vision of fun times and fond grandchildren but a journey of loss: loss of work and opportunity to contribute, health and well-being, family and friends. Over two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780309731515Author National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicineFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint National Academies PressPublisher National...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637238165Author Eva KahanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 413g

Elderly issues currently inspire a great deal of research, discussion, and public policy debate. Cox's informative, comprehensive, and sensitive consideration of an especially vulnerable elderly segment--the frail--makes a genuine contribution to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838339221Author Mima CattanFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint LAP Lambert Academic PublishingPublisher LAP Lambert Academic PublishingWeight(grams)...