Gerontology category: 668 books
Women in Late Life
Critical Perspectives on Gender and Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Contemporary old age is fraught with contradiction and complexity—women portrayed either as incompetent and cuddly grandmothers or as young women trapped in old bodies, images that rarely reflect how women actually see themselves. Women in Late Life explores the thorny issues related to gender and...
The Silvering Screen
Old Age and Disability in Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2011
Popular films have always included elderly characters, but until recently, old age only played a supporting role onscreen. Now, as the Baby Boomer population hits retirement, there has been an explosion of films, including Away From Her, The Straight Story, The Barbarian Invasions, and About Schmidt,...
Home- and Community-Based Services for Older Adults
Aging in Context
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
As older adults and their families opt out of nursing homes, a range of home and community-based services (HCBS) have risen up to provide care. HCBS span platforms and approaches, from home health care to assisted living to community-based hospice to adult day services. These models are, for most,...
Elder Abuse
International and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Here is an informative overview of the causes and consequences of elder abuse in countries around the world. This book delves into the global problem of elder abuse and identifies similarities and differences that occur from country to country. Elder Abuse: International and Cross-Cultural Perspectives...
Physical Change and Aging
A Guide for the Helping Professions, Fifth Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
"[This book] has been honedÖinto an elegant compendium. This outstanding work should be widely read -- it is perhaps the best example of an integrative approach to gerontology." Score: 94, 4 stars
--Doody's
This book serves as an authoritative textbook and guide to the physical...
The Aging Individual
Physical and Psychological Perspectives, 2nd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2002
Continuing in the tradition of the first edition, Whitbourneís identity process model serves to integrate the physiological with a psychological perspective. The effects of physical changes on the individual are examined in terms of identity, as well as the impact of identity on the interpretation...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
State-of-the-art developments in multiple new technologies for older adult care
Grounded in a unique team-based geriatrics perspective, this book delivers a broad range of current, evidence-based knowledge about innovative technology that has the potential to advance the care and well being...
Learning to Be Old
Gender, Culture, and Aging
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Margaret Cruikshank’s Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other social roles of the elderly, the over-medicalization of many older people, and ageism. In this book, Cruikshank proposes alternatives...
by James A. Holstein, Jaber F. Gubrium
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
Constructing the Life Course offers a social constructionist perspective on personal experience through time. The text shows the variety of ways people use life course imagery in their everyday lives and makes a useful addition to family studies or gerontology courses.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
This book brings together recent scholarly work concerned with efforts around the world to transform cities so that they are more age-friendly. Common to all of the initiatives is recognition of the importance of the community environment for the well-being of the rapidly growing numbers of older...
by Susan O Mercer, J Dianne Garner
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Explore the needs of older women and ways to provide for them!
Written by women, about women, and for women, Women As They Age, Second Edition highlights the realities of being an aging woman in a youth-oriented, male-dominated society, in which socioeconomic and gender stratification are the...
by Scott Bass, Masato Oka, Jill Norton
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Thirty years ago, when compared to the U.S., England, France, and Sweden, Japan had the lowest life expectancy for males and females. Today, Japan has the highest life expectancy and is the world’s most rapidly aging society. Public Policy and the Old Age Revolution in Japan captures the vitality...
Educational Activity Programs for Older Adults
A 12-Month Idea Guide for Adult Education Instructors and Activity Directors in Gerontology
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
If you have ever found yourself frustrated by the lack of printed materials for ideas to be used in conducting classes or activities with older adults, look no more! Educational Activity Programs for Older Adults is an innovative guide for planning programs that meet the social, recreational, rehabilitative,...
Intergenerational Relationships
Conversations on Practice and Research Across Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Understand how multigenerational family relationships can benefit all generations!
Intergenerational Relationships: Conversations on Practice and Research Across Cultures focuses on how family and community relationships are affected by pressing social problems. Respected international authorities...