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The Economics of Ageing
ISBN: 9781852788278 / Angielski / Twarda / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fundamental role of individual ageing is something that everyone is necessarily aware of, and the division of the life cycle into a number of distinct stages has been recognized for many centuries.
The fundamental role of individual ageing is something that everyone is necessarily aware of, and the division of the life cycle into a number of dist...
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1519,52 |
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Institutional Care for the Elderly at Bumhudzo
ISBN: 9783844308198 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Institutional care for elderly people is increasingly being favoured compared to community care in most developing countries.Many reasons abound for this shift ranging from collapse of traditional forms of care for elderly people because of breakdown of the extended family caused by impacts of colonialism, urbanisation and the increasing geographical spread of relatives.On the other hand institutional care is accused of disregarding individual needs of residents in the name of efficiency.This book is a study of institutional care for the elderly at Bumhudzo Hospital Home in ...
Institutional care for elderly people is increasingly being favoured compared to community care in most developing countries.Many reasons abound for...
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218,66 |
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Social Quality and Social Well-Being for Aged People
ISBN: 9783844312805 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. INC-2007 stated to increasing 6.8% of Iranian aged. The evidences have locally and nationally referred to social problems e.g. declined social indicators like societal networks, social cohesion and inclusion. These elements are partially stated in some new phenomena e.g. SC, SQA, SWB, LS, QoL. The book reviews two topics. Firstly, attend to aged life in the community. The community of Ahwaz city, as the capital of Khuzistan province and a major city in southwest of Iran is affected by ethnic distribution of social life, hence the gender-related issues of social community. Secondly,...
INC-2007 stated to increasing 6.8% of Iranian aged. The evidences have locally and nationally referred to social problems e.g. declined social indicat...
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263,29 |
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Elderly and Coping Mechanisms
ISBN: 9783844312836 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book examines how the aged and their subsequent generation (children) perceive ageing. It also tries to understand the situation of the aged in the context of status, role and decision-making. Further, expectation of elderly from their children, society and from the government is also analyzed. As age advances it is challenging for the elderly to get adjusted with both, society as well as family. Health has also been an important issue in the old age, physical and mental health need to be studied for their better life. The book is a modified version of Dr. Bansod's Ph.D. thesis from...
The book examines how the aged and their subsequent generation (children) perceive ageing. It also tries to understand the situation of the aged in th...
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303,45 |
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Poverty and Wellbeing among the Elderly in Southwestern Nigeria
ISBN: 9783844310825 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The wellbeing of the elderly is of major concern due to their increasing population in African countries. The majority of elderly African aged 60 years and older live in poor economic conditions with little or no access to electricity, employment, housing, healthcare, refuse disposal and toilet facilities. The study seeks to investigate the influence of poverty on the wellbeing of the Elderly in SouthWestern Nigeria.The challenges and coping strategies of the elderly were studied with a view of providing solutions in their livelihood in the society.
The wellbeing of the elderly is of major concern due to their increasing population in African countries. The majority of elderly African aged 60 year...
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303,45 |
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What Does It Mean to Grow Old?: Reflections from the Humanities
ISBN: 9780822308171 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In What Does It Mean to Grow Old? essayists come to grips as best they can with the phenomenon of an America that is about to become the Old Country. They have been drawn from every relevant discipline--gerontology, social medicine, politics, health, anthropology, ethics, law--and asked to speak their mind. Most of them write extremely well and their] sharply individual voices are heard.
In What Does It Mean to Grow Old? essayists come to grips as best they can with the phenomenon of an America that is about to become the Old Country. ...
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135,14 |
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The History of Old Age in England, 1600-1800, Part II
ISBN: 9781851968701 / Angielski / Twarda / 1584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? Historians researching the historicity of the aging experience have to search for references hidden within a wide range of sources relating to poverty, religion, the family or medicine. This eight-volume reset edition brings together selections from medical treatises, sermons, petitions, legal documents, parish records, almshouse accounts, private letters, diaries and ballads, to investigate cultural and medical understanding of old age in pre-industrial England.All of the material presented in this edition is rare and...
What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? Historians researching the historicity of the aging experience have to sear...
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1931,16 |
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The History of Old Age in England, 1600-1800, Part I
ISBN: 9781851968695 / Angielski / Twarda / 1232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? Historians researching the historicity of the aging experience have to search for references hidden within a wide range of sources relating to poverty, religion, the family or medicine. This eight-volume reset edition brings together selections from medical treatises, sermons, petitions, legal documents, parish records, almshouse accounts, private letters, diaries and ballads, to investigate cultural and medical understanding of old age in pre-industrial England.All of the material presented in this edition is rare and...
What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? Historians researching the historicity of the aging experience have to sear...
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1931,16 |
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Aging in Perspective & the Case of China: Issues & Approaches
ISBN: 9781617289415 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines what the world has learned so far in dealing with ageing. This title discusses how such a country as China has kept up with that learning. By combining general reviews with case studies in a comparative context, it illustrates a multidisciplinary approach to understanding Western and non-Western experiences.
Examines what the world has learned so far in dealing with ageing. This title discusses how such a country as China has kept up with that learning. By...
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1214,55 |
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Studying Aging and Social Change: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
ISBN: 9780761905905 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work develops fresh theoretical concepts to explore ageing as a social process. The contributions link the theoretical concepts to issues of research design and analysis, and provides insights into how we can understand fundamental social processes such as human development and socialization.
This work develops fresh theoretical concepts to explore ageing as a social process. The contributions link the theoretical concepts to issues of rese...
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642,11 |
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Understanding Older Chicanas: Sociological and Policy Perspectives
ISBN: 9780803945807 / Angielski / Twarda / 119 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first major sociological report on the lives, status and public policy needs of the Chicana elderly, a population which is generally poor and has been stereotyped as widows and grandmothers. Elisa Facio offers insight into how Chicana elderly cope with their economic and cultural marginality, and how they gain the personal and financial resources they require. The book relates how scholars and public policy makers have previously understood the world of Chicana elderly, and provides new data on the social meaning of Chicana old age, specifying implications of that meaning for...
This is the first major sociological report on the lives, status and public policy needs of the Chicana elderly, a population which is generally poor ...
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642,11 |
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Readings in the Political Economy of Aging
ISBN: 9780895030429 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older. Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the ... |
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Families and Aging
ISBN: 9780895031143 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The complexity and diversity of families and aging has generated the necessity for research, policy, and program agendas that address emerging issues and needs for elderly Americans and their families. This volume is an effort towards that end - an effort towards fostering a different perspective at families and aging.
The complexity and diversity of families and aging has generated the necessity for research, policy, and program agendas that address emerging issues ...
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395,84 |
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Diversity: New Approaches to Ethnic Minority Aging
ISBN: 9780895031020 / Angielski / Miękka / 167 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Containing ideas and perspectives, this monograph examines the evolutionary and future considerations for diversity in aging.
Containing ideas and perspectives, this monograph examines the evolutionary and future considerations for diversity in aging.
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337,90 |
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Critical Perspectives on Aging: The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old
ISBN: 9780895030764 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old. It looks too at such topics as the "biomedicalization" of aging; the role of business and the media in changing societal images of the old; the fact and fiction behind "senior power"; the multibillion dollar nursing...
This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape...
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419,98 |
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Critical Perspectives on Aging: The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old
ISBN: 9780895030757 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old. It looks too at such topics as the "biomedicalization" of aging; the role of business and the media in changing societal images of the old; the fact and fiction behind "senior power"; the multibillion dollar nursing...
This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape...
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328,25 |
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Handbook of Asian Aging
ISBN: 9780895033161 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In western countries, the rising tide of population aging took 100 years to alter the face of societies, but Asia is experiencing comparable changes in not much more than a quarter of a century. Contributors to "The Handbook of Aging" describe the magnitude of these changes and their effects on the aged and on societies attempting to adapt to the dramatic improvements in life expectancy brought on by rapid economic and social transformations. Asia encompasses a vast reach from Pakistan and India to Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia, and in this book including Australia. "The Handbook of...
In western countries, the rising tide of population aging took 100 years to alter the face of societies, but Asia is experiencing comparable changes i...
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651,77 |
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Lessons on Aging from Three Nations: The Art of Caring for Older Adults
ISBN: 9780895033703 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The global phenomenon of the aging of societies during a period of outstanding scientific, economic, and technological advancements is a blessing for humanity. These fundamental changes, however, create new needs and problems in all areas of life, often difficult to address. In some countries, the trend is towards compression of the period of age-related morbidity - fewer years of living with disabilities - but the absolute numbers of elderly people living with disabilities are increasing worldwide. This book highlights a series of global threats, problems and challenges in the areas of care...
The global phenomenon of the aging of societies during a period of outstanding scientific, economic, and technological advancements is a blessing for ...
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724,19 |
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Golden Years My Ass!
ISBN: 9781469964614 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An informative and occasionally irreverent look at the problems and questions about getting older. The topics range from concerns about nursing homes to identity problems. The author intended that the book be readable, informative, and entertaining. He accomplished all three goals.
An informative and occasionally irreverent look at the problems and questions about getting older. The topics range from concerns about nursing homes ...
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35,72 |
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Gerontology and Geriatrics Collections
ISBN: 9780917724534 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An essential resource for any library where research on aging is conducted--a guide to important and unique holdings in the field.
An essential resource for any library where research on aging is conducted--a guide to important and unique holdings in the field.
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193,06 |
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