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Investigations in the Economics of Aging
ISBN: 9780226903132 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also changing in conjunction with a rapidly aging population as well as a broad evolution in how people live later in life. One of the most well-established relationships in the economics of aging is that between health and wealth. Yet this relationship is also changing ... |
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Principles of Geriatric Care: Retelling the Told Story
ISBN: 9781466344549 / Angielski / Miękka / 271 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the result of a lifetime of personal research into human wellness. It naturally considers all the implications of human illness as well. The chapters offer a kaleidoscope of training programs previously offered to thousands of healthcare professionals in hospitals, nursing homes and rehab centers in the New England Area. The topics range of nursing home placement to spirituality as life meaning, to depression and suicide in the elderly. It is meant to contribute to the modern challenge of longevity, living longer with greater meaning.
This volume is the result of a lifetime of personal research into human wellness. It naturally considers all the implications of human illness as well...
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56,14 |
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Aging, Gender & Crime
ISBN: 9781619421509 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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318,29 |
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Issues in Aging
ISBN: 9781138210622 / Angielski / Twarda / 872 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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853,61 |
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Citizen's Wage : State and the Elderly in Canada, 1900-51
ISBN: 9780802077929 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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151,21 |
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Geriatric Case Practice in Nursing Homes
ISBN: 9780803929173 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What special skills and knowledge base do nurses and health care professionals need to work in nursing homes? This volume explores such relevant issues as working with nursing home residents and their families, managing selected special populations, and the organizational and policy contexts that shape practice. The authors also include structured learning tasks that can be used to guide the development of practice skills in supervised nursing home practice and field settings.
What special skills and knowledge base do nurses and health care professionals need to work in nursing homes? This volume explores such relevant issue...
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Geriatric Case Practice in Nursing Homes
ISBN: 9780803929166 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What special skills and knowledge base do nurses and health care professionals need to work in nursing homes? This volume explores such relevant issues as working with nursing home residents and their families, managing selected special populations, and the organizational and policy contexts that shape practice. The authors also include structured learning tasks that can be used to guide the development of practice skills in supervised nursing home practice and field settings.
What special skills and knowledge base do nurses and health care professionals need to work in nursing homes? This volume explores such relevant issue...
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648,74 |
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Gender Issues in Elder Abuse
ISBN: 9780803975231 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ways in which gender is central to the occurrence, detection and prevention of elder abuse are analyzed in this volume. Drawing on their own research, the authors identify the gendered nature of elder abuse in the following areas: most of the very elderly victims are women; in both domestic and institutional settings, women abuse women; a significant number of older women are abused by their sons; a significant number of older men are abused by their female partners and daughters; and abuse by nonrelatives and noncarers of both sexes occurs. Gender Issues in Elder Abuse considers why much...
The ways in which gender is central to the occurrence, detection and prevention of elder abuse are analyzed in this volume. Drawing on their own resea...
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Geographies of Ageing: Social Processes and the Spatial Unevenness of Population Ageing
ISBN: 9781409417767 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Population ageing is projected to affect all countries across the world in coming decades. The current rate of population ageing is unprecedented in human history with population projections indicating that this will be an enduring trend. Moreover, population ageing is spatially pervasive, affecting every man, woman and child. This has considerable implications for policy responding to the economic, social and healthcare outcomes of population ageing. The potential economic implications have been likened to those of the 2008 global financial crisis. This book examines the patterns and causes...
Population ageing is projected to affect all countries across the world in coming decades. The current rate of population ageing is unprecedented in h...
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Supporting People with Dementia at Home: Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780754674795 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Supporting People with Dementia at Home details a groundbreaking study of an intensive care management scheme designed for older people with dementia that are at risk of entry into residential care. The authors use a quasi-experimental approach to compare how the individuals on the mental health team in one community were matched to a similar community without the service. They analyze the evidence focusing on the eventual placement of the individual suffering, the quality of care they receive, and also the needs of their carers. This book offers valuable evidence about the factors which can...
Supporting People with Dementia at Home details a groundbreaking study of an intensive care management scheme designed for older people with dementia ...
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Self Care in Later Life: Research, Program, and Policy Issues
ISBN: 9780826111869 / Angielski / Twarda / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is uncontestably the most comprehensive and authoritative work on the subject of self-care available to date. It should set the stage for a new policy perspective on building a health care system that incorporates self-care at its core."--Lowell S. Levin, Yale School of Public Health Practitioners and researchers who work with older adults are challenged to find ways to strengthen an elderly person's capacity to cope wiht age-related changes that threaten independence. This volume assesses the efficacy of self-care in maintaining autonomy. It applies a... This volume is uncontestably the most comprehensive and authoritative work on the subject of self-care available to date. It should set the stage f... |
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Ageing, Diversity and Equality: Social Justice Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415786690 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Doing Harder Time?: The Experiences of an Ageing Male Prison Population in England and Wales
ISBN: 9781409428046 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his seminal text Society of Captives, Gresham Sykes discusses the general pains of imprisonment to which all prisoners are subjected: the deprivation of liberty, the deprivation of heterosexual relationships, and the deprivation of autonomy. Sykes recognised that different prisoners experience these pains differently, and as a result, are affected to a greater or lesser degree by their time inside. In this groundbreaking book, Natalie Mann investigates the idea that apart from the general pains of imprisonment discussed by Sykes, certain characteristics which certain prisoners hold makes...
In his seminal text Society of Captives, Gresham Sykes discusses the general pains of imprisonment to which all prisoners are subjected: the deprivati...
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Presences and Absences  " Transdisciplinary Essays
ISBN: 9781443849845 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume discusses the question of presence and/or absence from a transdisciplinary perspective, and intends to provide insights into how a wide range of disciplines addresses this issue which has been at the centre of philosophical, theoretical and critical debates in the past decades. As the essays in the volume prove, apparently diverse areas can have a lot in common and talk to each other in sometimes surprising ways. The topics discussed include modals in various languages and black slave funeral sermons, pragmatic markers and the Australian Stolen Generation, the transcendental in...
This volume discusses the question of presence and/or absence from a transdisciplinary perspective, and intends to provide insights into how a wide ra...
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Men Still at Work: Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job
ISBN: 9781442222755 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Men Still at Work explores the reasons why many men are continuing to work well beyond the traditional retirement age. In today's challenging economy, they are the second-fastest growing group of workers (just behind older women). Filled with profiles of older working men, as well as dynamic interview quotes, Men Still at Work explores thorny issues such as masculinity and the "need to provide," as well as economic issues, job satisfaction, and more.
Men Still at Work explores the reasons why many men are continuing to work well beyond the traditional retirement age. In today's challenging economy,...
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Motivate!: A Collection of Compelling Words and Phrases for Senior Activities
ISBN: 9781461196143 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The words and phrases we use are so important to the well-being of our seniors, and the ways in which we motivate them. The language we use needs to paint a compelling picture of our events, so our residents are almost waiting in the halls for the ultimate boredom buster (Assisted Living Professionals are even being audited on their use of language ) It can be frustrating, time consuming and flat out annoying to not be able to come up with the word or expression you want, at the moment you need it. This book was written to be a reference tool; a compilation of words and expressions to make...
The words and phrases we use are so important to the well-being of our seniors, and the ways in which we motivate them. The language we use needs to p...
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Justice for Older People
ISBN: 9789042034907 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors of these papers vary in age, nationality and professional background. They share a belief that all too often older people are not treated justly or fairly, and also a belief that this is particularly true with regard to a proper respect for their dignity as people and a proper allocation of medical and social resources. Their papers, in various ways, give evidence as to what is happening and arguments, based on philosophical ethics, as to why it is wrong. The authors also have a range of proposals, backed by argument and evidence, and drawing on factual material as well as...
The authors of these papers vary in age, nationality and professional background. They share a belief that all too often older people are not treated ...
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Political Institutions and Elderly Care Policy: Comparative Politics of Long-Term Care in Advanced Democracies
ISBN: 9780230361782 / Angielski / Twarda / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although most advanced industrialized countries are facing population aging and other social changes, public long-term care programs for the aged are remarkably diverse across them. This book accounts for the variations in elderly care policy by combining statistical analysis with historical case studies of Sweden, Japan and the USA.
Although most advanced industrialized countries are facing population aging and other social changes, public long-term care programs for the aged are ...
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A Map to the End of Time: Wayfarings with Friends and Philosophers
ISBN: 9780393344868 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Like James Carse inBreakfast at the Victory, Manheimer reinvigorates the ancient tradition of using storytelling to explore truth. What is romantic love? How do we shape the stories we tell ourselves about our own pasts? Does the purpose of life become clearer in old age? How do we find common meanings across religious, ethnic, and generational divides? What is the essence of a person? What does it mean to live a "full" life? Showing how ideas and lives can illuminate one another, Manheimer's engaging narratives address these questions while providing an inviting exploration of the...
Like James Carse inBreakfast at the Victory, Manheimer reinvigorates the ancient tradition of using storytelling to explore truth. What is ro...
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From Exclusion to Inclusion in Old Age: A Global Challenge
ISBN: 9781847427731 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evidence of widening inequalities for the aging has led to strong concerns about the many ways older adults experience social exclusion. Against the backdrop of a massive older demographic, "From Exclusion to Inclusion in Old Age" casts a welcome light on the patterns and processes that either include senior citizens in or exclude them from wider society. Taking a broad international perspective, the contributors to this volume examine a host of central topics important to understanding the lives of seniors, from globalization, age discrimination, and human rights to intergenerational... Evidence of widening inequalities for the aging has led to strong concerns about the many ways older adults experience social exclusion. Against th... |
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