Gerontology category: 668 books
Population Aging
The Transformation of Societies
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Population Aging: The Transformation of Societies presents an overview and international comparison of the causes, consequences and policy implications of one of the major processes of change in contemporary societies. It provides a foundation for understanding and reflecting on keydemographic and...
Who Will Care For Us?
Long-Term Care and the Long-Term Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
The number of elderly and disabled adults who require assistance with day-to-day activities is expected to double over the next twenty-five years. As a result, direct care workers such as home care aides and certified nursing assistants (CNAs) will become essential to many more families. Yet these...
Challenges of the Third Age
Meaning and Purpose in Later Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2001
The newly retired are entering a time of life that is virtually uncharted, a time in which they are free from social expectations and, to a large extent, from obligations to others. Life's meanings are no longer provided by work and family. Instead, men and women have the freedom, and the need, to...
by Joanna Mellor, Patricia Brownell
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Provide the most effective service possible to help victims of this growing social problem
Elder Abuse and Mistreatment is a comprehensive overview of current policy issues, new practice models, and up-to-date research on elder abuse and neglect. Experts in the field provide insight into elder...
Gerontological Social Work Practice
Issues, Challenges, and Potential
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
What are the challenges facing gerontological social workers—today and in the near future?
This book gives you an essential overview of the role, status, and potential of gerontological social work in aging societies around the world. Drawing on the expertise of leaders in the field, it identifies...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This book examines the transformations in home lives arising in later life and resulting from global migrations. It provides insight into the ways in which contemporary demographic processes of aging and migration shape the meaning, experience and making of home for those in older age. Chapters explore...
Gay Men at Midlife
Age Before Beauty
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
“Those of us in our forties and fifties came of age in the 1960s and 1970s--a time when the available commentary on gay life was anything but supportive. Until 1973, homosexuality was a diagnosable mental illness.” --from the Introduction by Alan L. Ellis
Today, that literary blindness...
No More Potlucks, Please
36 Fun Events For TODAY'S ACTIVE Senior Adults!
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
About 13 percent of Americans are sixty-five or older, according to the most recent census. As baby boomers continue to age, retirement communities and senior living centers will need to expand to meet their needs. Today’s modern seniors are looking for social events and challenging educational...
Eternity Soup
Inside the Quest to End Aging
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Mix the latest and most rigorous scientific research, irrepressible old-fashioned entrepreneurship, and the ancient human desire to live forever (or at least a lot longer) and the result is today’s exploding multibillion-dollar antiaging industry. Its achievements are so far mostly marginal, but...
by Ann Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Many hospice social workers must address spiritual issues with their clients, but do not feel competent to do so effectively. This targeted volume draws upon multidisciplinary theory and research to advance a relational model of spiritually sensitive hospice care. The book will help readers elevate...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Contributions by Gökçe Elif Baykal, Lincoln Geraghty, Verónica Gottau, Vanessa Joosen, Sung-Ae Lee, Cecilia Lindgren, Mayako Murai, Emily Murphy, Mariano Narodowski, Johanna Sjöberg, Anna Sparrman, Ingrid Tomkowiak, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, Ilgim Veryeri Alaca, and Elisabeth Wesseling
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Baby boomers
Time and ageing bodies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This ground-breaking study of the baby boomer generation, who are now entering old age, breaks new ground in ageing research. This post-war cohort has experienced a range of social, cultural, and medical changes in regard to their notions of body, from the introduction of the Pill and the decoupling...
Aging with Dignity
Innovation and Challenge in Sweden – The Voice of Elder Care Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2017
Demographic change is a defining issue of our time. As the worldwide population ages, the healthcare systems of every country will meet challenges of scale in providing for their elderly. Aging with Dignity: Innovation and Challenge in Sweden: The Voice of Elder Care Professionals is a study in the...
Families
Intergenerational and Generational Connections
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
This special volume is devoted to the synthesis and review of theoretical and conceptual approaches associated with familial and non-familial connections across the life span. An important book as society “returns to the family,” it compares and contrasts different disciplinary perspectives associated...