Gerontology category: 668 books
by Garuth Chalfont
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
Maintaining a connection to nature is increasingly recognised as an important component of caring for a person with dementia. Design for Nature in Dementia Care provides comprehensive examples of ways to connect to nature through indoor and outdoor activities.
The author describes a wide range...
Navigating Alzheimer's
12 Truths about Caring for Your Loved One
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
Journalist and author Mary K. Doyle has written a poignant but practical handbook for Alzheimer's caregivers that will enlighten anyone touched by this debilitating disease. She offers straightforward guidelines for caregivers and their families, important lessons she learned in the eleven years she...
by Karrie Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
How can carers and relatives support a person's identity, relationships and emotional wellbeing through changes that occur in the later stages of dementia?
Drawing on over ten years' experience of working with people with dementia, Karrie Marshall provides a toolkit of tried and tested creative...
A Place Called Canterbury
Tales of the New Old Age in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
An "affectionate, touchingly empathetic" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times) look at old age in America today Welcome to Canterbury Tower , an apartment building in Florida, where the residents are busy with friendships, love, sex, money, and gossip-and the average age is eightysix. Journalist Dudley...
by Tom Hay
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
‘You know you’re getting old when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.’
John Mendoza
You might be getting a bit thin on top, plump at the middle and creaky around the knees, but that doesn’t mean you’ve forgotten how to enjoy yourself! This collection of witty quotations,...
The Lioness in Winter
Writing an Old Woman's Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2015
When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the...
by T. Sai Chandra Mouli
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
This volume showcases various aspects of Indian English fiction spread over more than a hundred years period. There are nineteen papers highlighting the salient features of a variety of fiction. An interview with an eminent Professor known for his poetic, artistic and critical productivity enriches this...
The Hands of Strangers
Poems from the Nursing Home
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2011
Janice N. Harrington's debut, Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone (2007), garnered the prestigious Kate Tufts Discovery Award.
Even the Hollow My Body Made Is Gone (2007),was published as winner of BOA's annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize.
The Hands of Strangers draws on Harrington's...
The Big Move
Life Between the Turning Points
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2016
When her husband’s ill health forces them to move into an assisted living facility, Anne M. Wyatt-Brown suddenly finds herself surrounded by elderly residents. In this lively and provocative collection, other distinguished gerontologists reflect on Anne’s moving account of her transition to becoming...
Whistling Women
A Study of the Lives of Older Lesbians
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
Gain first-hand knowledge of how today's lesbians aged 60 and over survived the 20th century!
I didn’t know we were lesbians. We lived together 13 years!
Whistling Women is a unique, candid collection of the life experiences of 44 lesbians between 62 and 82 years of age. This book...
Understanding Learning Disability and Dementia
Developing Effective Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
Understanding Learning Disability and Dementia covers all the essential issues in supporting a person with a learning disability when they develop dementia. Like the population at large, people with learning disabilities are living longer, and therefore an increasing number are developing dementia. Service...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This essay collection develops new perspectives on constructions of old age in literary, legal, scientific and periodical cultures of the nineteenth century. Rigorously interdisciplinary, the book places leading researchers of old age in nineteenth-century literature in dialogue with experts from...
Bathing Without a Battle
Person-Directed Care of Individuals with Dementia, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
2008 AJN Book of the Year Winner!
Like its popular predecessor, the new edition of Bathing Without a Battle presents an individualized, problem-solving approach to bathing and personal care of individuals with dementia. On the basis of extensive original research and clinical experience, the...
Pathways of Human Development
Explorations of Change
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
Pathways of Human Development uses theoretical perspectives from developmental, social, and behavioral sciences to examine the many ways that individuals, families, and communities intersect and interface. Focusing on the impact of change on human development, including its antecedents, processes,...