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Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure: Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology
ISBN: 9781447300892 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure"advances the critical discourse on gerontology, offering new understandings of key social and ethical dilemmas facing aging societies. Connecting approaches that have been relatively isolated from one another, it integrates two major streams of thought within critical gerontology: analyses of structural issues in the context of political economy and humanist perspectives on issues of existential meaning, providing indispensable reading for scholars, students, policy makers, and practitioners in gerontology and humanism studies."
"Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure"advances the critical discourse on gerontology, offering new understandings of key social and ethical dilemmas f...
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157,49 |
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Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure: Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology
ISBN: 9781447300908 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure"advances the critical discourse on gerontology, offering new understandings of key social and ethical dilemmas facing aging societies. Connecting approaches that have been relatively isolated from one another, it integrates two major streams of thought within critical gerontology: analyses of structural issues in the context of political economy and humanist perspectives on issues of existential meaning, providing indispensable reading for scholars, students, policy makers, and practitioners in gerontology and humanism studies."
"Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure"advances the critical discourse on gerontology, offering new understandings of key social and ethical dilemmas f...
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431,97 |
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Return Migration in Later Life: International Perspectives
ISBN: 9781447301226 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Little research has been done on expatriates who return to their countries of origin in later life an important issue in a time of aging populations and increasing mobility. Bringing together studies of older adults migration patterns in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, South Asia, and Australia, this collection offers the first comprehensive explanation of how and why they return to their homelands. In the process, it addresses such key factors as the strength of family ties; the quality and cost of health and welfare provisions; and psychological adjustment, belonging,...
Little research has been done on expatriates who return to their countries of origin in later life an important issue in a time of aging populations a...
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431,97 |
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Ageing with Disability: A Lifecourse Perspective
ISBN: 9781447305224 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to address the issue of aging with a long-term disability, "Ageing with Disability" breaks new ground through its particular lifecourse perspective, examining what it means to age with a physical or mental disability and what the implications are of becoming old for people who have had extensive disabilities for many years. It highlights the meaning of care in unexplored contexts, such as aging parents acting as caregivers or mutual care by disabled couples, areas of disability studies that have, until now, been totally neglected."
The first book to address the issue of aging with a long-term disability, "Ageing with Disability" breaks new ground through its particular lifecourse...
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431,97 |
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Combining Paid Work and Family Care: Policies and Experiences in International Perspective
ISBN: 9781447306818 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As populations around the world age, increasing efforts are required from families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled people. Furthermore, both women and men are expected to work later into life. Taken together, these two facts have made the relationship between work and care a burning issue for social and employment policy as well as for those working toward economic sustainability. Emphasizing the lessons that can be learned from individual experiences, this book widens current debates on these topics, bringing the experiences of individuals who support older,...
As populations around the world age, increasing efforts are required from families and governments to secure care and support for older and disabled p...
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431,97 |
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Aging, Economic Growth, and Old-Age Security in Asia
ISBN: 9781781952306 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First, the expert contributors argue, Asia must find ways to sustain rapid economic growth in the face of less favorable demographics, which implies slower growth of the workforce. Second, they contend, Asia must find ways to deliver affordable, adequate, and sustainable old-age economic security for its growing elderly population. Underpinned by rigorous analysis, a wide range of concrete policy options for sustaining economic growth while delivering economic security for the elderly are then presented. These include Asia-wide policy options - relevant to the entire region - such as building...
First, the expert contributors argue, Asia must find ways to sustain rapid economic growth in the face of less favorable demographics, which implies s...
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599,68 |
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The Perspectives of People with Dementia: Research Methods and Motivations
ISBN: 9781843100010 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People with dementia have often played a passive role in the investigation of their condition. The contributors to this book look at ways of redressing the balance and involving them in the research process. They describe the skills that researchers and care staff need, and the methods they can use, when seeking to draw out and validate the views of people with dementia successfully, and discuss the ways in which such views can be included in debates about dementia methodology and policy. The book focuses on a number of projects which have taken different approaches to working with people...
People with dementia have often played a passive role in the investigation of their condition. The contributors to this book look at ways of redressin...
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Remembering Yesterday, Caring Today: Reminiscence in Dementia Care: A Guide to Good Practice
ISBN: 9781843106494 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reminiscence is a vital way to stimulate communication and promote confidence and self-worth in people with dementia. This practical guide is designed to give those who care for people with dementia a clear sense of how reminiscence can be used to greatly improve their quality of life. The book explores how reminiscence can contribute to person-centred dementia care and contains detailed descriptions of activities that can be used in a group setting, for one-to-one reminiscence at home or in a variety of care settings. Based on ideas developed and tested internationally over a period of ten...
Reminiscence is a vital way to stimulate communication and promote confidence and self-worth in people with dementia. This practical guide is designed...
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Health and Safety: A Workbook for Social Care Workers
ISBN: 9781843109297 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Those working in residential or domiciliary settings have a responsibility to maintain a clean, safe and secure work environment. Health and Safety provides guidance on the responsibilities and risk assessments involved, covering subjects such as first aid, safety in the kitchen, infection control, safe handling of adults, issues surrounding medication, how to react in an emergency and how to respond to challenging behaviour. The workbook meets the requirements of care standards and promotes best practice by enabling staff to gain the knowledge needed to meet health and safety standards....
Those working in residential or domiciliary settings have a responsibility to maintain a clean, safe and secure work environment. Health and Safety pr...
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Ageing, Health and Care
ISBN: 9781847420879 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ageing of the population has enormous policy implications for the provision of, and access to, health care. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the health status and experiences of older people. It also contains chapters on physical health, mental health, disability, and lifestyle.
The ageing of the population has enormous policy implications for the provision of, and access to, health care. This book provides a comprehensive ove...
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Population Ageing and International Development: From Generalisation to Evidence
ISBN: 9781847421920 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the next 40 years the number of people aged 60 and over in the world is set to grow by one and a quarter billion. What are the implications of this for the world and what will old age be like for these people? This book provides an analysis of links between development, population ageing and the experiences of older people.
Over the next 40 years the number of people aged 60 and over in the world is set to grow by one and a quarter billion. What are the implications of th...
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Ageing and Intergenerational Relations: Family Reciprocity from a Global Perspective
ISBN: 9781847422040 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the exchange of support between generations and examines variations in contemporary practices and rationales in different regions and societies. This work draws on both theoretical perspectives and empirical analysis in relation to new patterns of family reciprocity.
Explores the exchange of support between generations and examines variations in contemporary practices and rationales in different regions and societi...
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Ageing in Urban Neighbourhoods: Place Attachment and Social Exclusion
ISBN: 9781847422705 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many western nations have experienced a rise in the number of marginalised and deprived inner-city neighbourhoods. Despite a plethora of research focused on these areas, there remain few studies that have sought to capture the 'optimality' of ageing in place in such places. In particular, little is known about why some older people desire to age in place despite multiple risks in their neighbourhood and why others reject ageing in place. Given the growth in both the ageing of the population and policy interest in the cohesion and sustainability of neighbourhoods there is an urgent need to...
Many western nations have experienced a rise in the number of marginalised and deprived inner-city neighbourhoods. Despite a plethora of research focu...
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Valuing Older People: A Humanist Approach to Ageing
ISBN: 9781847422910 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and principles both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a life-course approach, this book claims that the complexity and potential creativity of later life demands a humanistic vision of older people and ageing.
How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and principles both matter in themselves ...
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Valuing Older People: A Humanist Approach to Ageing
ISBN: 9781847422927 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and principles both matter in themselves and are affected by those of others? Using a life-course approach, this book claims that the complexity and potential creativity of later life demands a humanistic vision of older people and ageing.
How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and principles both matter in themselves ...
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Unequal Ageing: The Untold Story of Exclusion in Old Age
ISBN: 9781847424112 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This powerful book analyses the vital dimensions of money, health, place, quality of life and identity, and demonstrates the gaps of treatment and outcomes between older and younger people, and between different groups of older people. Written by leading experts in the field, it provides strong evidence of the scale of current disadvantage in the UK and suggests actions that could begin to change the picture of unequal ageing.'Unequal ageing' is aimed at all those with a serious interest in the unprecedented challenge of our ageing society. It will be of importance to policy-makers,...
This powerful book analyses the vital dimensions of money, health, place, quality of life and identity, and demonstrates the gaps of treatment and out...
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Belief and Ageing: Spiritual Pathways in Later Life
ISBN: 9781847424594 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on 40 years interviewing experience, this book illustrates the variety of religious, spiritual and other beliefs held by older people. It provides models of research procedure, especially in the context of bereavement. Participants include not only British Christians, but also Muslims, Humanists and witnesses of the Soviet persecution of religion. The author argues that both welfare professionals and gerontologists need to pay far more consideration to belief as a constituent of well-being in later life.
Based on 40 years interviewing experience, this book illustrates the variety of religious, spiritual and other beliefs held by older people. It provid...
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Unmasking Age: The Significance of Age for Social Research
ISBN: 9781847426178 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is age? A simple question but not that easy to answer. 'Unmasking Age' addresses it using data from a series of research projects relating to later life. This is supplemented by material from a range of other sources including diaries and fiction. Drawing on a long career in social research, Bill Bytheway critically examines various methods and discusses ways of uncovering the realities of age.
What is age? A simple question but not that easy to answer. 'Unmasking Age' addresses it using data from a series of research projects relating to lat...
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Transitions and the Lifecourse: Challenging the Constructions of 'Growing Old'
ISBN: 9781847426918 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Transitions and the Lifecourse" investigates and challenges dominant interpretations of transitions in late life. Amanda Grenier takes a cross-national and interdisciplinary comparative approach to the topic of aging and the life course, yielding a fresh perspective on these transitions as well as considering some innovative strategies for addressing concerns related to them. Scholars and students interested in social gerontology, policy studies in health and social care, and older people s accounts of lived experience will find this book to be a stimulating read."
"Transitions and the Lifecourse" investigates and challenges dominant interpretations of transitions in late life. Amanda Grenier takes a cross-nat... |
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The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age
ISBN: 9781853115929 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ronald Blythe followed up his famous 'Akenfield' with this book. In it he allows people from all walks af life to reflect in their own words on what it it like to be old. The result is a facinating and moving series of confidences which we are priviledged to share. Whether philosophical, resigned or despairing of their long years, Ronald Blythe discovers in their talk much that helps us undersand the natural but isolating effects of old age. This book provides us with a gentle, perceptive and profound memoir and a deeper understanding of the pattern of our lives. Ronald Blythe is one of...
Ronald Blythe followed up his famous 'Akenfield' with this book. In it he allows people from all walks af life to reflect in their own words on what i...
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