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Aging Education in a Global Context
ISBN: 9780789030801 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presents a set of papers based on selected proceedings from the 2004 Association for Gerontology in Higher Education annual conference. This book provides educators with fresh viewpoints and practical information on which to base the teaching strategies. It is useful for gerontology educators and educators addressing cross-cultural aging issues.
Presents a set of papers based on selected proceedings from the 2004 Association for Gerontology in Higher Education annual conference. This book prov...
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Aging Education in a Global Context
ISBN: 9780789030818 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A selection of proceedings from the 2004 Association for Gerontology in Higher Education annual conference
Aging Education in a Global Context is a carefully considered set of papers based on selected proceedings from the 2004 Association for Gerontology in Higher Education annual conference. Each forward-thinking presentation provides unique perspectives on teaching resources and education, presenting a wellspring of creative ideas for new and experienced teachers in gerontology and aging education. Respected educators present cutting-edge concepts and effective strategies in... A selection of proceedings from the 2004 Association for Gerontology in Higher Education annual conference
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A Journey Called Aging : Challenges and Opportunities in Older Adulthood
ISBN: 9780789033833 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Journey Called Aging presents an insightful exploration of the years between the entry into older adulthood and death. This text examines the significant changes and major landmarks of older persons between 60 and 90. Grounded by a developmental framework based on empirical research, this book presents a new way of looking at older adulthood, describing the older adult years in intensely human terms through both anecdotes and research-based findings to engage the reader as both guide and traveler. Using a series of sequential stages as a framework, A Journey Called Aging discusses the...
A Journey Called Aging presents an insightful exploration of the years between the entry into older adulthood and death. This text examines the signif...
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975,56 |
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A Journey Called Aging: Challenges and Opportunities in Older Adulthood
ISBN: 9780789033840 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Journey Called Aging travels through the sights, landmarks, decisions, and challenges of the years between older adulthood and death. The book focuses major task areas that include: discovering and maintain purpose; holding and building relationships; balancing autonomy, dependence, and interdependence; and facing loss and change.
A Journey Called Aging travels through the sights, landmarks, decisions, and challenges of the years between older adulthood and death. The book focus...
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282,86 |
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Housing for the Elderly : Policy and Practice Issues
ISBN: 9780789034489 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To maintain or improve their quality of life, many seniors in the United States will move to new locations and into new types of housing. Housing for the Elderly addresses the key aspects of the transitions they'll face, examines how housing programs can help, and looks at the role social workers can play to ensure they remain healthy, happy, and productive as they age.
To maintain or improve their quality of life, many seniors in the United States will move to new locations and into new types of housing. Housing for ...
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682,89 |
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Housing for the Elderly : Policy and Practice Issues
ISBN: 9780789034496 / Angielski / Miękka / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To maintain or improve their quality of life, many seniors in the United States will move to new locations and into new types of housing. Housing for the Elderly addresses the key aspects of the transitions they'll face, examines how housing programs can help, and looks at the role social workers can play to ensure they remain healthy, happy, and productive as they age.
To maintain or improve their quality of life, many seniors in the United States will move to new locations and into new types of housing. Housing for ...
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190,19 |
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Drama Activities With Older Adults : A Handbook for Leaders
ISBN: 9780789060372 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lead older adults in creative drama activities. This practical handbook provides step-by-step instructions for conducting over 50 introductory activities to stimulate the senses, awaken the imagination, activate body movement, encourage interaction, and stimulate verbal communication with the elderly. Written primarily for activity, recreation, and program directors of community/day care centers and in retirement homes who have some interest in drama but no formal training, Drama Activities With Older Adults features a wide array of group work skills. A number of complete model session plans...
Lead older adults in creative drama activities. This practical handbook provides step-by-step instructions for conducting over 50 introductory activit...
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258,48 |
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You Bring Out the Music in Me : Music in Nursing Homes
ISBN: 9780789060389 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An enlightening book, You Bring Out the Music in Me, explores how music motivates, enriches, touches, relaxes, and energizes the elderly in nursing homes. Practicing music therapists explain how music speaks to all of us, regardless of our language, culture, or abilities and how it can be used with groups and individuals in nursing homes to encourage relaxation and expression of feeling and increase socialization. The chapters encompass both music therapy practice in gerontology as well as practical ideals and suggestions for activities directors who want to use music in their nursing home...
An enlightening book, You Bring Out the Music in Me, explores how music motivates, enriches, touches, relaxes, and energizes the elderly in nursing ho...
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219,45 |
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Creative Arts with Older People
ISBN: 9780789060402 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With this insightful and intelligent book, professionals can help institutionalized older adults express themselves creatively. One of only a few books on expressive arts for older people, this unique, new volume is ideal for professionals who provide art activities for residents in adult homes and retirement communities.Creative experience can facilitate the expression of ideas and feelings, increase sensory stimulation, improve self-esteem, and improve social relationships. Creative Arts With Older People provides time-tested suggestions to stimulate the creative process among...
With this insightful and intelligent book, professionals can help institutionalized older adults express themselves creatively. One of only a few book...
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253,60 |
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Anthropology and Aging: Comprehensive Reviews
ISBN: 9780792307433 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book was conceived as a project of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology, a multidisciplinary and international organization, formed in 1978, that is dedicated to the exploration and understanding of aging within and across the diversity of human cultures. The perspective of the Association is holistic, comparative and international. Membership is drawn from both academic and applied sectors and includes the social and biological sciences, medicine, urban planning, policy studies, social work and the development, administration and provision of services for the aged....
This book was conceived as a project of the Association for Anthropology and Gerontology, a multidisciplinary and international organization, formed i...
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402,53 |
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Breaking the Watch
ISBN: 9780801437717 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text follows men and women from a rural American community as they approach and experience the first years of retirement. The author focuses on the efforts people make to find meaning in a stage of life American culture often views in a confused or disdainful way. In conversations and stories, 13 men and 13 women demonstrate a deep commitment to defining their own retirement. They bring to their mature years a diversity of backgrounds, interests and responsibilities: they include former teachers, librarians, doctors, farmers, lawyers, bankers, mail carriers and secretaries. Some are...
This text follows men and women from a rural American community as they approach and experience the first years of retirement. The author focuses on t...
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Ginseng and Aspirin: Health Care Alternatives for Aging Chinese in New York
ISBN: 9780801486517 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Navigating the maze of modern American health care is rarely easy; those who enter it are confronted with a dizzying array of specialists, practitioners, and clinics from which to choose, and are forced to make decisions regarding drugs and treatments about which they may know very little. For immigrants, finding their way can be difficult especially for those to whom Western medicine is itself unfamiliar.In this engaging, accessible, and detail-rich book, Zibin Guo narrates elderly Chinese immigrants' response to contemporary American medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes...
Navigating the maze of modern American health care is rarely easy; those who enter it are confronted with a dizzying array of specialists, practitione...
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107,77 |
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Breaking the Watch: The Meanings of Retirement in America
ISBN: 9780801488177 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The topic of retirement becomes increasingly compelling as the U.S. population ages. It's easy to find books about how to plan financially for those years after careers end, but Breaking the Watch focuses on the many ways of creating a life, not just making a living, as a retired person.This book follows women and men from a rural American community as they approach and experience the first years of retirement. Joel Savishinsky focuses on the efforts people make to find meaning in a stage of life American culture often views in a confused or disdainful way.In conversations and stories, 13 men...
The topic of retirement becomes increasingly compelling as the U.S. population ages. It's easy to find books about how to plan financially for those y...
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107,26 |
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City of Green Benches
ISBN: 9780801493225 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In City of Green Benches, Vesperi combines the ear of a journalist, recording scores of conversations with elderly residents, with the eye of an anthropologist, trying to understand how people's self-esteem and self-perception are transformed in the process of social change. In this contribution to gerontology theory, Vesperi examines the cultural construction of old age in American society and its impact on the self-concept of the aged.
In City of Green Benches, Vesperi combines the ear of a journalist, recording scores of conversations with elderly residents, with the eye of an anthr...
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156,09 |
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Productive Aging: Concepts and Challenges
ISBN: 9780801865572 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Will 69 million baby boomers suddenly drop out of the workforce when they turn 65? It is difficult to imagine this generation, with its talent, education, and experience, idling away the last thirty years of life.---From the Foreword, by Robert N. Butler, M.D., The Mount Sinai Medical Center Old age has been historically thought of as a period of frailty and dependence, yet studies show that with the help of advances in health and medicine, current populations will live longer and remain healthier than previous generations. As average life expectancies rise, traditional concepts of... -Will 69 million baby boomers suddenly drop out of the workforce when they turn 65? It is difficult to imagine this generation, with its talent, ed... |
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Concepts of Alzheimer Disease: Biological, Clinical, and Cultural Perspectives
ISBN: 9780801877575 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the essays in this volume show, conceptualizing dementia has always been a complex process. With contributions from noted professionals in psychiatry, neurology, molecular biology, sociology, history, ethics, and health policy, Concepts of Alzheimer Disease looks at the ways in which Alzheimer disease has been defined in various historical and cultural contexts. The book covers every major development in the field, from the first case described by Alois Alzheimer in 1907 through groundbreaking work on the genetics of the disease. Essays examine not only the prominent role... As the essays in this volume show, conceptualizing dementia has always been a complex process. With contributions from noted professionals in psych... |
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Older Americans, Vital Communities: A Bold Vision for Societal Aging
ISBN: 9780801887680 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thought-provoking work grapples with the vast range of issues associated with the aging population and challenges people of all ages to think more boldly and more creatively about the relationship between older Americans and their communities. W. Andrew Achenbaum begins by exploring the demographics of our aging society and its effect on employment and markets, education, health care, religion, and political action. Drawing on history, literature, and philosophy, Achenbaum focuses on the way health care and increases in life expectancy have transformed late life from a phase... This thought-provoking work grapples with the vast range of issues associated with the aging population and challenges people of all ages to think ... |
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130,94 |
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Family Relationships in Later Life
ISBN: 9780803933224 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Directed towards researchers and practitioners in family studies and gerontology, this completely revised Second Edition of Family Relationships in Later Life provides an innovative new collection of research-based descriptions on family relations of older people. Each chapter summarizes existing literature on the topic and provides up-to-date original research. Topics addressed include: sibling relationships in later life; widowhood; ethnic differences; elder abuse and mistreatment; family care; and health problems.
Directed towards researchers and practitioners in family studies and gerontology, this completely revised Second Edition of Family Relationships in La...
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556,07 |
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Understanding Older Chicanas: Sociological and Policy Perspectives
ISBN: 9780803945814 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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409,73 |
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Interpersonal Communication in Older Adulthood: Interdisciplinary Theory and Research
ISBN: 9780803951174 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By highlighting the commonalities across a range of disciplines, this volume provides a unique and broad-based perspective on communication and ageing. This integrative approach brings together the best of current research and theory from communication, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics and medical sociology.
Centring on three topics - cognition, language and relationships - the book explores the individual areas as well as the ways in which they intersect. It brings to light the implications of individual differences among members of the elderly population as they affect... By highlighting the commonalities across a range of disciplines, this volume provides a unique and broad-based perspective on communication and ageing...
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556,07 |
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