This multi-method study of crime and the elderly in a small town setting approaches the related issues from varied perspectives and presents a picture of fear and crime among the elderly. The book offers a departure from the urban view with an emphasis on phenomenology and qualitative research. The study allows the elderly and other key informants to present their own portrait relative to crime - a portrait that is far more contextually varied and far less dominated by fear and vunn erability than is commonly assumed.
This multi-method study of crime and the elderly in a small town setting approaches the related issues from varied perspectives and presents a picture...
Previous research on this topic has not focused on nutrition-specific social support for elderly women. This unique study seeks to describe and explore the current situation in a group of elderly women living alone in government subsidized housing.
Previous research on this topic has not focused on nutrition-specific social support for elderly women. This unique study seeks to describe and explor...
This collection will present works that offer illuminating perspectives on the remarkably diverse Asian American populations of the United States. As a population that is neither black nor white, the range of experiences of these groups, many of whom arrived as refugees, presents other perspectives on the cultural mosaic that constitutes the United States. Studies of Asian Americans sheds light on issues related to immigration, refugee policy, transnationalism, return migration, cultural citizenship, ethnic communities, community building, identity and group formation, panethnicity, race...
This collection will present works that offer illuminating perspectives on the remarkably diverse Asian American populations of the United States. ...
