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Proposing a modified concept of care management, DIRECTED CARE captures the leadership and management expertise of professional nurses to guide individuals to more effective and efficient utilization of health care resources and to influence their personal health behaviors toward optimal wellness. The discussion sheds the passive patient image as merely a recipient of services. It is replaced with active participation of a health care consumer in collaboration with the health care providers where for and to become with. An upstream, preventive care approach is promoted throughout the book....

The changing demographic profiles of modern societies has led to a growing interest in understanding ageing and later life among those working within the social sciences and humanities. This edited volume addresses the methodological challenges entailed in studying the process of ageing and life course changes, as well as the experience of being old. The book focuses on the theory and practice of doing research, using a wide range of examples and case studies. The contributors, who are prominent researchers in the field, review the range of practices in the use of different methodologies and...