Gerontology category: 668 books
Advancing Conversations
Aubrey De Grey - Advocate For An Indefinite Human Lifespan
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2016
Advancing Conversations is a line of interview books documenting conversations with artists, authors, philosophers, economists, scientists, and activists whose works are aimed at the future and at progress. The biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, as the world's pre-eminent longevity advocate, is nothing...
Unequal ageing
The untold story of exclusion in old age
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
This powerful book analyses the vital dimensions of money, health, place, quality of life and identity, and demonstrates the gaps of treatment and outcomes between older and younger people, and between different groups of older people. Written by leading experts in the field, it provides strong evidence...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
During recent years, an increasing amount of academic research has focused on older people with a particular emphasis on settings, places and spaces. This book provides a comprehensive review of research and the policy area of 'ageing and place'.
An insightful book on an important topic, Andrews...
by James E. Allen, PhD, MSPH
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2011
Named a 2013 Doody's Essential Purchase!
The sixth edition of Nursing Home Administration contains essential information to prepare an individual for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator. This book addresses all regulatory pieces of information to provide readers with an...
Never Say Die
The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Susan Jacoby, an unsparing chronicler of unreason in American culture, now offers an impassioned, tough-minded critique of the myth that a radically new old age—unmarred by physical or mental deterioration, financial problems, or intimate loneliness—awaits the huge baby boom generation. Combining...
by Toni M. Calasanti, Kathleen F. Slevin
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2001
The experience of men and women in later life varies enormously, not only along lines of gender but also due to ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and race. In this text on gender issues among the aging, Calasanti and Slevin explore these differences, their genesis, their meaning to men and women,...
The Complete Eldercare Planner, Revised and Updated Edition
Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask, and How to Find Help
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
The only guide you’ll ever need to manage the care of your aging family
FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED
As our population shifts and ages, the care needs for our elders continue to change and evolve. Today’s generation of family and professional caregivers faces new decisions and challenges,...
Enriched Care Planning for People with Dementia
A Good Practice Guide to Delivering Person-Centred Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
The correlation between 'disengagement' and illness in people with dementia living in long-term care settings is becoming more widely recognised, and developing and adapting front-line staff responses to the changing needs of individuals is a crucial factor in addressing this problem.
This...
How to Make Your Care Home Fun
Simple Activities for People of All Abilities
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
As we grow older, our need to be engaged in interesting activities does not diminish and is vital to our quality of life. How to Make Your Care Home Fun examines the need for activities for elderly people in care and offers a practical programme of entertaining activities that can be used in nursing...
by Peter Cockersell, Musthafar Oladosu, Rena Kydd-Williams
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Exploring the key issues around anti-discriminatory practice for professionals working in mental health services, this book looks at ways to improve the health and social care of older people from minority and excluded communities.
The chapters explore the issues involved in working with individuals...
The Essential Guide to Caring for Aging Parents
A Wise and Practical Guide to Navigating the Complex World of Family Elder Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2012
The tools and answers you need to help your parents receive the care they deserve.
by Lesley J. Slepner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
This second edition builds off of the starting points addressed in the first edition related to families seeking guidance with issues common to aging parents or patients. In it, Slepner, identifies questions to be raised and provides a framework for developing responses unique to each family. The second...
Our Ageing Brain
how our mental capacities develop as we grow older
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
An international bestseller delivering good news on brain function and ageing
We all worry sometimes that our brains — particularly our memories — just don’t work as well as they used to. In this illuminating book, internationally acclaimed Dutch neuroscientist André Aleman shows that...
Quarterly Essay 57 Dear Life
On Caring for the Elderly
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
In this moving and controversial Quarterly Essay, doctor and writer Karen Hitchcock investigates the treatment of the elderly and dying through some unforgettable cases. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions, frailty and dementia, over-treatment and escalating costs....