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Gerontological Home Health Care: A Guide for the Social Work Practitioner
ISBN: 9780231124645 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Longer life expectancy, the aging baby boom population, and increasing numbers of older adults with chronic health conditions who want to remain at home are generating an urgent need for providers who possess specialized knowledge and skills in home heath care. Answering the urgent call for a textbook that deals with specifically with adults in this setting, Goldie Kadushin and Marcia Egan synthesize empirical research to extract practical applications for practice, emphasizing the "how to" of gerontological home health care by discussing the field's most relevant issues. The authors include...
Longer life expectancy, the aging baby boom population, and increasing numbers of older adults with chronic health conditions who want to remain at ho...
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515,55 |
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Aging with Attitude: Growing Older with Dignity and Vitality
ISBN: 9780313363184 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Rolling Stones (now in their 60s) have sung to us for years about what a drag it is getting old, but it doesn't have to be that way. Despite living in a youth-oriented society, many of the aged patients seen by Dr. Levine have kept their emotional zest, intellectual zeal, and empowering dignity. Levine points to well-known public figures clearly aging with dignity and vitality. And this neurologist author shows steps we can take to age while retaining these qualities in defiance of a society that challenges this quest. Living longer is not enough for most of us; we don't want to just... The Rolling Stones (now in their 60s) have sung to us for years about what a drag it is getting old, but it doesn't have to be that way. Despite li... |
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97,90 |
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Asian American Elders in the Twenty-First Century: Key Indicators of Well-Being
ISBN: 9780231135900 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Asian Americans make up a diverse ethnic group in the Unites States and are among the fastest growing population of adults sixty-five years and older. Most Asian Americans are either first-generation immigrants who grew up in the United States or individuals who joined their American families later in life. Yet despite the significant presence of Asian Americans in this country, adequate resources tracking their health over the life span are surprisingly scarce. With this book, Ada C. Mui and Tazuko Shibusawa provide necessary data on the psychosocial well-being of Asian American elders....
Asian Americans make up a diverse ethnic group in the Unites States and are among the fastest growing population of adults sixty-five years and older....
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269,38 |
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Ageing and Place
ISBN: 9780415481656 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An increasing amount of academic research has focused on older people with a particular emphasis on settings, places and spaces. This book provides a comprehensive review of research and the policy area of 'ageing and place'.
An increasing amount of academic research has focused on older people with a particular emphasis on settings, places and spaces. This book provides a ...
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195,86 |
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Grey Matters: A Guide for Collaborative Research with Seniors
ISBN: 9781552382516 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study marks a major step in making collaboration between seniors, academic researchers, and community researchers a reality. Many aging adults are motivated to undertake research projects in later life or even return to university after retirement. Grey Matters is the result of a pilot project developed to study the effectiveness of collaborative research involving seniors. Because the project was such a success, the authors were encouraged to make their model available both to seniors interested in undertaking their own research and to those hoping to involve seniors in collaborative...
This study marks a major step in making collaboration between seniors, academic researchers, and community researchers a reality. Many aging adults ar...
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96,15 |
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Family Practices in Later Life
ISBN: 9781847420534 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a lack of gerontological literature on the experience and complexity of living in older families lived experience, family relationships, 'doing' family life, meanings of family life, connectedness, etc. This book contributes to redressing that imbalance. The book explores diversity and change in the family relationships which older people maintain, looking at how family relationships are constructed and organized in later life. It recognizes that the emerging patterns are a consequence of the choices and decisions negotiated within family networks, emphasizing older people's agency...
There is a lack of gerontological literature on the experience and complexity of living in older families lived experience, family relationships, 'doi...
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438,22 |
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From Poor Law to Community Care: The Development of Welfare Services for Elderly People 1939-1971
ISBN: 9781861340856 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent community care changes have raised fundamental issues about the changing role of the public, voluntary and informal sectors in the provision of social care to frail elderly people. They have also raised issues about the health and social care interface, how to ration services and the respective roles of residential care and care at home. The purpose of this book is to set these debates in the context of the historical growth of welfare services from the outbreak of the Second World War through to the establishment of social services departments in April 1971.
Recent community care changes have raised fundamental issues about the changing role of the public, voluntary and informal sectors in the provision of...
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149,46 |
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Senior Citizenship?: Retirement, Migration and Welfare in the European Union
ISBN: 9781861342645 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book charts the development of mobility and welfare rights for those citizens exercising their right to move or return home on retirement under the Free Movement of Persons provisions and explores their experiences of international mobility. It is set within the context of 'Citizenship of the Union'. Senior citizenship? draws on substantial primary research material to: combine detailed analysis of the framework of EU rights shaping social with in-depth qualitative interviews involving retired migrants across six member states (Greece, Portugal, Italy, the United Kingdom, Sweden and...
This book charts the development of mobility and welfare rights for those citizens exercising their right to move or return home on retirement under t...
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155,76 |
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From Community Care to Market Care?: The Development of Welfare Services for Older People
ISBN: 9781861342652 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study reflects a growing recognition of the contribution that studies of the post-war 'welfare state' can make to contemporary debates about the restructuring of welfare. Drawing on the community care debates from 1971 to 1993, it illuminates contemporary concerns about such key issues as rationing care, the health and social care divide, the changing role of residential care and the growing emphasis on provider competition.From community care to market care focuses on the interpretation and development of national policy at local authority level in four contrasting local authorities....
This study reflects a growing recognition of the contribution that studies of the post-war 'welfare state' can make to contemporary debates about the ...
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149,46 |
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From Community Care to Market Care?: The Development of Welfare Services for Older People
ISBN: 9781861342669 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study reflects a growing recognition of the contribution that studies of the post-war 'welfare state' can make to contemporary debates about the restructuring of welfare. Drawing on the community care debates from 1971 to 1993, it illuminates contemporary concerns about such key issues as rationing care, the health and social care divide, the changing role of residential care and the growing emphasis on provider competition.From community care to market care focuses on the interpretation and development of national policy at local authority level in four contrasting local authorities....
This study reflects a growing recognition of the contribution that studies of the post-war 'welfare state' can make to contemporary debates about the ...
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444,52 |
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Quality at Home for Older People: Involving Service Users in Defining Home Care Specifications
ISBN: 9781861343529 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The government's NHS Plan emphasises the importance of services based on users' views.This highly topical report provides practical guidance on how to ensure that older people's views are heard and acted on, and their views monitored, in relation to service quality.Quality at home for older people: provides new information on the definition of quality in home care services by service users both under and over 80 years of age;identifies users' priorities for the first time;shows the differences and similarities in the perceptions of quality between white and minority ethnic service...
The government's NHS Plan emphasises the importance of services based on users' views.This highly topical report provides practical guidance on how to...
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103,06 |
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Health, Well-Being and Older People
ISBN: 9781861344229 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health, well-being and older people: provides an overview of relevant research and service development literature;presents and discusses a range of issues that are important to the health of older people including attitudes and ageism, the body, the environment, family and community, sexuality and having fun;draws on material developed and, in some cases, written by older people themselves; integrates theory and empirical evidence with practice experience;offers models of best practice.Designed with the needs of students in mind, each chapter has helpful aids to understanding including: key...
Health, well-being and older people: provides an overview of relevant research and service development literature;presents and discusses a range of is...
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418,74 |
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Money, Choice and Control: The Financial Circumstances of Early Retirement
ISBN: 9781861344762 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report looks at the role of finances in decisions about early moves out of work, and the effect of such moves on future finances. The report draws on in-depth interviews with people who make an early move towards retirement. It makes a distinctive contribution to understanding their experiences, by looking at the importance of money alongside other influences, including health and domestic circumstances. Money, choice and control: . vbTab]sheds light on the relative importance of financial incentives in shaping retirement behaviour; . vbTab]draws on individual life stories to paint a...
This report looks at the role of finances in decisions about early moves out of work, and the effect of such moves on future finances. The report draw...
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104,20 |
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Social Alarms to Telecare: Older People's Services in Transition
ISBN: 9781861345066 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Healthcare, social welfare and housing policy agendas, while emphasising the importance of supporting the independent living of older people at home, have generally failed to take account of the actual or potential role played by social alarms and telecare. This book draws on research and practice throughout the developed world. It documents the emergence of these important technologies and considers their potential in the contexts of healthcare, social welfare and housing. The book is of immense importance to policy makers and practitioners in healthcare, social welfare and housing. It...
Healthcare, social welfare and housing policy agendas, while emphasising the importance of supporting the independent living of older people at home, ...
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166,07 |
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The Health and Social Care Divide: The Experiences of Older People
ISBN: 9781861345264 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on key research, government policies and real-life case studies, the book assists health and social care professionals to work more effectively together in order to improve services for users and carers.The health and social care divide: explains why partnerships are important and what helps/hinders partnership working;reviews the legal and policy framework, providing a chronological overview and placing current initiatives in their historical and social policy context;summarises existing research findings with regard to key health and social care policy debates;uses case studies to...
Drawing on key research, government policies and real-life case studies, the book assists health and social care professionals to work more effectivel...
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418,74 |
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Rural Ageing: A Good Place to Grow Old?
ISBN: 9781861349026 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book addresses a growing international interest in 'age-friendly' communities. It examines the conflicting stereotypes of rural communities as either idyllic and supportive or isolated and bereft of services. Providing detailed information on the characteristics of rural communities, contributors ask the question, 'good places for whom'?The book extends our understanding of the intersections of rural people and places across the adult lifecourse. Taking a critical human ecology perspective, authors trace lifecourse changes in community and voluntary engagement and in the...
This important book addresses a growing international interest in 'age-friendly' communities. It examines the conflicting stereotypes of rural communi...
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438,22 |
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Exercise Programming for Older Adults
ISBN: 9780789013255 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exercise Programming for Older Adults is a valuable guidebook for ensuring that exercise programming attains a balance between the three major physical components of aerobic, strength, and flexibility training--and that each component is properly administered. The guidelines presented reveal how physical activities supervised by trained personnel can make a noticeable difference in the participants' quality of life.
Exercise Programming for Older Adults is a valuable guidebook for ensuring that exercise programming attains a balance between the three major physica...
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244,84 |
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Sports Competitions for Adults Over 40: A Participant's Guide to 27 Sports
ISBN: 9780786434657 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is a popular way to ward off aging, but the serious fun and games don't have to end once middle age sets in. This guidebook is geared for men and women seeking the challenge and enjoyment of athletic competition.
Maintaining a healthy lifestyle is a popular way to ward off aging, but the serious fun and games don't have to end once middle age sets in. This guid...
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221,82 |
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Bridging Paradigms: Positive Development in Adulthood and Cognitive Aging
ISBN: 9780275936174 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines positive development across adulthood with particular emphasis on postformal thought. The editors acknowledge that researchers have compiled a substantial body of descriptive evidence about the styles of thinking used by adults under certain conditions. The questions that remain are whether these styles reflect qualitative changes; how these styles develop; whether there are necessary precursors; why there is content specificity; what the relationship is to physiological or neurological development; whether adults can deliberately control postformal thought; how... This volume examines positive development across adulthood with particular emphasis on postformal thought. The editors acknowledge that researchers... |
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360,89 |
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Wages for Caring: Compensating Family Care of the Elderly
ISBN: 9780275936358 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines policies and programs of compensation for family caregivers of the disabled elderly from a broad analytical perspective, weighing current policies of home care services against principles of access, equity, quality, and funding of long-term care.
Examines policies and programs of compensation for family caregivers of the disabled elderly from a broad analytical perspective, weighing current pol...
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232,00 |
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