Gerontology category: 668 books
by C. Lee Harrington, Anthony R. Bardo, Rebecca G. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday life, and the growing cultural significance of media consumption at the global level. This book brings together an international collection of critical scholars,...
Moving Your Aging Parents
Fulfilling their Needs and Yours Before, During, and After the Move
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Will you be ready when it's time...?
Whether whittling down to the essentials for a parent moving into a room or two or downsizing for ourselves, ignoring the spirit and basing decisions on health and safety alone could have devastating results.
In this hope filled book you will learn how to:
Identify...
Women Still at Work
Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
From Betty White to Toni Morrison, we’re surrounded by examples of women working well past the traditional retirement age. In fact, the fastest growing segment of the workforce is women age sixty-five and older. Women Still at Work tells the everyday stories of hard-working women and the reasons...
by Rose Dobrof
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Ethnicity and Gerontological Social Work presents a compassionate and illuminating update on ethnicity in this area of social work. This fine book looks at such topics as the relationship between white aged clients and non-white paraprofessional workers, minority elder maltreatment, the utilization...
by Margaret Morganroth Gullette
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2017
When the term “ageism” was coined in 1969, many problems of exclusion seemed resolved by government programs like Social Security and Medicare. As people live longer lives, today’s great demotions of older people cut deeper into their self-worth and human relations, beyond the reach of law or...
哈佛教你幸福一輩子：史上最長80年指標研究，揭露快樂到老的智慧
Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development
Language: Chinese
Release Date: April 30, 2018
「年老如果是一種創作，我們都正在提筆書寫。」我確實是這樣相信，而且也確實是這樣實踐。以創作的心情迎接七十歲的到來，反而充滿了期待。而在期待之際，正好顯示自己還是擁有夢想。 ——陳芳明（政治大學講座教授）
史上最長80年哈佛研究，追蹤個案超過800人...
Transitions and Transformations
Cultural Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This volume reframes aging on a global scale by illustrating the multiple ways it is embedded within individual, social, and cultural life courses....
by Meredith Wallace, PhD, ARPN-BC
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2007
Essentials of Gerontological Nursing presents the best practices needed to care for older adults. Its brief, yet comprehensive, grasp of issues in elder care is a refreshing addition to the current literature, which is more commonly focused on theory than on clinical practice. Designed primarily for...
Mental Health and Later Life
Delivering an Holistic Model for Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
The mental health needs of older people are all too often overlooked or put down to the inevitable consequences of ageing. This textbook will make it much easier for health, social care and third sector workers to identify, treat and support the needs of this population.
The book takes an interdisciplinary...
Social Policy for an Aging Society
A Human Rights Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
As people age, they are at increased risk of having their basic human rights threatened or violated. When age is perceived as incompetence, it can easily lead to discrimination that impacts human rights. Based on the premise that social policy must reflect human rights principles, this graduate-level...
Men Still at Work
Professionals Over Sixty and On the Job
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
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...
by Charlotte Greenhalgh
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
As today’s baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in the British welfare state. Using innovative research methods, Charlotte Greenhalgh sheds light on the experiences of elderly people in twentieth-century Britain. She adds further...
Active Ageing
Perspectives from Europe on a vaunted topic
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
Authors from across Europe consider the diverse theoretical and conceptual issues in understanding ageing in late modern society with an emphasis on active ageing. Integrated approaches are emphasised, without privilege one theoretical conception above others. The examples used will act as examples of positive contributions to ageing, even when physical and cognitive frailty looms large
Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
People are leading significantly longer lives than previous generations did, and the proportion of older people in the population is growing. Residential care for older people will become increasingly necessary as our society ages and, we will require more of it. At this moment in time, the rights...