Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Gerontology

Offering an important, international perspective on aging societies around the globe, this book critically analyzes the limitations of contemporary aging policies, calling for a fuller understanding of the relationship between health and care. Drawing on the feminist ethic of care, Liz Lloyd reviews a range of international evidence on health inequalities, health promotions, and health care. In doing so, she provides fresh insights for social scientists, policymakers, gerontologists, or anyone interested in the global policies that have had profound impact on how people experience aging.

This concise guide to long-term services and supports introduces a broad array of topics and presents ideas on how to get more extensive information... A variety of graphs, tables, and charts make the information easy to understand. Overall the book is well-organized with chapters that can stand on their own... Readers considering going into long-term care management or administration would find this book a valuable tool."--Doody's Medical Reviews

This very first comprehensive book-length reference guide dealing with older adult education synthesizes current information about theoretical developments with specific practical details about the latest programs, policies, and research in the field. It is unique in placing the subject of lifelong learning into historical perspectives, discussing ways in which programs have been transformed over the last 15 to 20 years, and in considering the impact of institutional policies on older adult education.

This guide points to demographic trends relating to aging and older...

This book develops new interdisciplinary perspectives on constructions of old age in literary, legal, scientific, and popular cultures of the nineteenth century. The volume reveals how nineteenth-century debates about old age propelled the formation of a range of new medical, scientific, and juridical disciplines. It sheds light on the ways in which literature participated in these processes and looks at a broad range of texts by canonical authors, such as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Henry James, and by authors who have recently attracted growing...

"This is one of the best mental health and aging books I have ever read. It] is one that I will turn to often in my teaching of doctoral students, and in my work with older adults. One of the phenomenal aspects of this book is the research reviews; which are in-depth and broad in their scope. It is clear that Lee Hyer is an exceptional scholar-clinician and geropsychologist.."--Peter A. Lichtenberg, PhD

Drawing from current research and clinical practice, this text espouses a unique interdisciplinary approach to the assessment and treatment of psychosocial impairment in older...

AARP is one of Washington's most influential interest groups, but just who does it represent? To some, it represents the narrow, special interests of older Americans who already consume more than their share of government benefits. To others, its advocacy encompasses everyone, including those with elderly parents and grandparents--and those who will comprise the older generations of the future.

The most comprehensive volume ever written about AARP, the book begins with a chapter on the organization's history, going back to its founding in 1958 and its roots in the National...