Gerontology category: 668 books
Community Programs for the Depressed Elderly
A Rehabilitation Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
International experts offer insights into rehabilitative work with the depressed elderly, including examples of successful treatment models, assessment and prevention techniques, as well as other helpful methods of alleviating depression in the institutionalized elderly.
by Scott Bass, Jill Norton, Robert Morris *Deceased*
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Within the context of long-range planning, this book examines the changing responsibilities of the state and family toward elders in different societies around the world. International Perspectives on State and Family Support for the Elderly presents a fresh range of lucid analyses of family caregiving...
Continuing Care Retirement Communities
Political, Social, and Financial Issues
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Here is the first detailed study of the economic, social, and administrative implications for the establishment of continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs). Leaders in the field of optional living arrangements for the elderly examine models of continuing care retirement communities throughout...
Religion and Aging
Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This collection of essays explores the intersection of religious, psychosocial, economic and cultural issues in relation to the dramatic demographic shifts we are facing on a global scale. Theologians, gerontologists, anthropologists and practitioners reflect on the meaning of aging in diverse contexts...
Deinstitutionalization and People with Intellectual Disabilities
In and Out of Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2005
This international collection of personal and professional perspectives takes a fresh look at deinstitutionalization. It addresses the key steps towards deinstitutionalization as they have been experienced by people with intellectual disabilities: living inside total institutions, moving out, living...
by Lenard W Kaye, Sandra Butler
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Learn the skills you need to work with geriatric populations in rural areas!
Gerontological Social Work in Rural Towns and Communities provides a range of intervention and community skills aimed precisely at the needs of rural elders. This book fills a gap in the literature by focusing on the...
Assisted Living
Sobering Realities
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Learn how to make elder housing more homelike!
Taking an incisive look at assisted living for the elderly, Assisted Living: Sobering Realities is an important book for the professionals who work with aging Americans and their families. This vital book provides a multidisciplinary overview of...
60 on Up
The Truth about Aging in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Getting old sucks, says best-selling author Dr. Lillian Rubin. With refreshing candor, she digs down under the statistics about our graying population and offers a provocative and unflinching examination of all the burning issues that mark aging today. Tackling the subject over a broad swath of the...
The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film
Plus Ultra Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film examines the onscreen construction of adolescent, elderly, and disabled subjects in Spanish cinema from 1992 to the present. Applying a dual lens of film analysis and theory drawn from the allied fields of youth, age, and disability studies,...
Mindfulness-Based Elder Care
A CAM Model for Frail Elders and Their Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
"She shares with us her gold - the conception, trial and error implementation, and initial scientific investigation of a new, educationally-oriented treatment approach that she has named mindfulness-based elder care (MBEC)."-from the Foreword by Saki Santorelli, EdD, MA, Associate Professor...
Aging Our Way
Lessons for Living from 85 and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In 1998, Hallmark unveiled their new "One-Hundredth-Birthday" cards, and by 2007 annual sales were at 85,000. America is rapidly graying: between now and 2030, the number of people in the U.S. over the age of 80 is expected to almost triple. But how long people live raises the question of how well...
Transnational Aging
Current Insights and Future Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
This book focuses on the diverse interrelationships between aging and transnationality. It argues that the lives of older people are increasingly entangled in transnational contexts on the social as well as the cultural, economic and political levels. Within these contexts, older people both actively...
Social Exclusion in Europe
Problems and Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Exclusion has come to hold a prominent place in the political discourse of all governments in the European Union and in the European Commission itself. As such, it figures importantly in various research agencies’ funding priorities attracting academics to develop and conduct major research programmes....
Twenty-Five Years of the Life Review
Theoretical and Practical Considerations
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
In this thought-provoking book, professionals in the field of aging examine the history and concept of the life review. The life review--a theory about the nature of the life cycle first presented in 1962--has become a foundation for program development with the elderly. This unique analysis of the...