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Journeys in Sociology: From First Encounters to Fulfilling Retirements
ISBN: 9781439914755 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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116,54 |
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Journeys in Sociology: From First Encounters to Fulfilling Retirements
ISBN: 9781439914748 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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403,20 |
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Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work
ISBN: 9780813588070 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin relationships--the work that enables a family to reproduce and regenerate itself across generations and across the globe.
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in sett...
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Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work
ISBN: 9780813588087 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin relationships--the work that enables a family to reproduce and regenerate itself across generations and across the globe.
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in sett...
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607,23 |
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Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England: Years in the making
ISBN: 9781526116949 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seeking to explore what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people's relationships with time. Based on research conducted in a former coal mining village in South Yorkshire, England, Cathrine Degnen explores how the category of 'old age' comes to be assigned and experienced in everyday life through multiple registers of interaction, including that of social memory, in a postindustrial context of great social transformation. Challenging both the notion of a...
Seeking to explore what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnograp...
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127,84 |
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Perceptions of Community Crime in Ferguson, Mo: A Qualitative Study Prior to the Death of Michael Brown
ISBN: 9783319467856 / Angielski / Miękka / 135 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Brief is based on a research study of aging adults' perceptions and fear of crime in their community of Ferguson, Missouri. The study, which was conducted by coincidence just prior to the death of Michael Brown, presents unique insights into the community environment prior to those events, which sparked protests and turmoil in Ferguson and beyond.
This qualitative study employs sampling and semi-structured interviews to survey older adults aging in place in Ferguson about their perceptions of crime, social disorder, racial integration and community transformation. The author also... This Brief is based on a research study of aging adults' perceptions and fear of crime in their community of Ferguson, Missouri. The study, which was ...
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Still Growing: The Creative Self in Older Adulthood
ISBN: 9780718893910 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bringing together both pastoral awareness and psychoanalytical knowledge, this is a life-affirming study of the growth and creativity of old age.
Bringing together both pastoral awareness and psychoanalytical knowledge, this is a life-affirming study of the growth and creativity of old age.
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118,13 |
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Hidden Among the Hidden (UK)
ISBN: 9780190602321 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What are the experiences of African-American elder male caregivers? Based on research with twelve African-American caregivers born in the first half of the 20th century, this book captures the complexity and poignancy of the caregiving pilgrimage, and roots men's caregiving narratives within the biographical and historical context of their lives.
What are the experiences of African-American elder male caregivers? Based on research with twelve African-American caregivers born in the first half o...
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Labour Market and Retirement Interactions: A New Perspective on Employment for Older Workers
ISBN: 9780198779179 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volumes examines the interaction of labour market conditions and retirement decisions. Based on French and US data, it provides empirical evidence and quantitative analysis of retirement and labor market flows. It studies the horizon effect and uses French individual data and probit models to show that the horizon effect does matter for the probability of being employed before the early retirement age. It analyses the influence of the retirement age on labour-market equilibrium, as well as the impact of labour market conditions, especially the importance of unemployment risk, on...
This volumes examines the interaction of labour market conditions and retirement decisions. Based on French and US data, it provides empirical evidenc...
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333,05 |
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Social Capital as a Health Resource in Later Life: The Relevance of Context
ISBN: 9789402407129 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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460,16 |
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Art of Living, Art of Dying: Spiritual Care for a Good Death
ISBN: 9781785922114 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Talking about dying and death can be difficult for those facing the end of life. This book presents a model and offers examples for discussing existential questions with patients receiving end-of-life care. Updating the Ars Moriendi tradition, this book offers a non-judgemental approach for supporting people through the spiritual aspects of dying.
Talking about dying and death can be difficult for those facing the end of life. This book presents a model and offers examples for discussing existen...
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Cultures of Ageing: Self, Citizen and the Body
ISBN: 9781138157811 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-retirement life experienced by people at the end of the twentieth century. It examines age and ageing in terms of the key preoccupations of contemporary sociology - citizenship, the body and the self. The book provides a platform for a new social gerontology that sees ageing as central to our understanding of social change. It examines social, cultural and political changes in Europe and North America to address the need for a text that moves...
For undergraduate courses in sociology and psychology which examine ageing adulthood. This book focuses on the dramatic changes to the nature of post-...
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850,12 |
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Senior Moments: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
ISBN: 9781250141187 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old. Senior Moments is a series of discrete essays that, when taken together, constitute the life of a man who, despite Western cultural notions of aging as something to be denied, overcome, and resisted, has continued to relish the simplest of pleasures: reading, looking at art, talking, and indulging in occasional fits of nostalgia while also welcoming what inevitably lies ahead. Senior Moments... Drawing on more than six decades' worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor... |
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Wash, Wear, and Care: Clothing and Laundry in Long-Term Residential Care
ISBN: 9780773549227 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clothing and appearance are steeped in social and personal significance, conveying individuals gender, class, culture, and occupation. In the communal setting of long-term residential care, where residents autonomy and mobility are often limited but their dignity and identity are paramount, clothes have become crucial issues and the source of tension for residents, their families, and staff. Assessing the neglected but important labour involved in ensuring that clothes promote respect for both the washers and the wearers, Wash, Wear, and Care analyzes the roles that laundry and clothing play...
Clothing and appearance are steeped in social and personal significance, conveying individuals gender, class, culture, and occupation. In the communal...
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Wash, Wear, and Care: Clothing and Laundry in Long-Term Residential Care
ISBN: 9780773549234 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clothing and appearance are steeped in social and personal significance, conveying individuals gender, class, culture, and occupation. In the communal setting of long-term residential care, where residents autonomy and mobility are often limited but their dignity and identity are paramount, clothes have become crucial issues and the source of tension for residents, their families, and staff. Assessing the neglected but important labour involved in ensuring that clothes promote respect for both the washers and the wearers, Wash, Wear, and Care analyzes the roles that laundry and clothing play...
Clothing and appearance are steeped in social and personal significance, conveying individuals gender, class, culture, and occupation. In the communal...
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The Praeger Handbook of Mental Health and the Aging Community
ISBN: 9781440853340 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More people are living past age 65 than ever before in the United States, largely due to medical care advances and increased attention to preventive care. The number of people aged 65 and older has increased from 35 million in 2000 to 40 million in 2010, and the elderly population is expected to reach 72 million by 2030. Additionally, the American Psychological Association estimates at least 20 percent of all people aged 65 and older have a diagnosable mental disorder. There is a clear need to provide additional training support to those in the field of elder care as well as those who are... More people are living past age 65 than ever before in the United States, largely due to medical care advances and increased attention to preventiv... |
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The Longevity Economy: Inside the World's Fastest-Growing, Most Misunderstood Market
ISBN: 9781610396639 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the director of the MIT AgeLab, Joseph Coughlin has studied trends in demographics and technology and spearheaded research and innovation to improve the quality of life for older people and those who care for them. Now, in The Longevity Economy, he uses this expertise to break new ground in understanding this market, which composes an ever-increasing share of the total population. While companies see the size and wealth of this market, they all too often use outdated narratives to figure out what this demographic really wants. Coughlin debunks conventional wisdom and provides...
As the director of the MIT AgeLab, Joseph Coughlin has studied trends in demographics and technology and spearheaded research and innovation to improv...
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Staying in Life: Paving the Way to Dementia-Friendly Communities
ISBN: 9783837638905 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are constantly growing older, and there are an increasing number of elderly people living with dementia who are merely being taken care of. There is no question that we need alternatives to the established procedures. What can we do to create spaces where we can stay in life, rather than just staying alive? How can we turn the individual environments of people with and without dementia into places of human warmth? In Germany, initiatives attempting to answer these questions are on the rise. Committed individuals from politics, art, churches, and social and volunteer work are creatively...
We are constantly growing older, and there are an increasing number of elderly people living with dementia who are merely being taken care of. There i...
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Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-Term Residential Care
ISBN: 9783837638059 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in how institutional care is structured, the legacies of the poor house still persist, creating panicked views of the nursing home as a dreaded fate. The paradoxical nature of a space meant to be both hospital and home offers up critical tensions for examination by age studies scholars. The essays in this book challenge stereotypes of institutional care for older adults, illustrate the changes that have occurred over time, and illuminate the...
Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enormous changes have occurred in ...
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189,41 |
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Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media
ISBN: 9781496815163 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With populations aging all around the world, awareness of intergenerational relationships and associations surrounding old age is becoming urgent. Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media caters to this urgency and contributes to age literacy by supplying insights into the connection between childhood and senescence to show that people are aged by culture.
With populations aging all around the world, awareness of intergenerational relationships and associations surrounding old age is becoming urgent. Con...
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