Gerontology category: 668 books
by John Vincent
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Recent decades have seen a fundamental change in the age structure of many western societies. In these societies it is now common for a fifth to a quarter of the population to be retired, for fewer babies to be born than is required to sustain the size of the population and for life expectancy to...
Palliative Care for Advanced Alzheimer's and Dementia
Guidelines and Standards for Evidence-Based Care
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
2010 AJN Book of the Year Award Winner in both Gerontologic Nursing and Hospice and Palliative Care!
"This book...provides important information on best practices and appropriate ways to care for a person with Alzheimer's and advanced dementia. Drs. Martin and Sabbagh have assembled a...
Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer's Disease
A Christian Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
Clarify your thinking on an issue that can tear families apart!
Caring for a Loved One with Alzheimer’s Disease: A Christian Perspective is the touching story of a woman’s daily struggles as a caregiver to her mother who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. You’ll learn how God’s presence...
Midlife and Aging in Gay America
Proceedings of the SAGE Conference 2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
How is the pre-Stonewall generation aging? What can the Stonewall generation expect?
Combining personal experience and original research, this fascinating collection explores the practical and psychological issues of aging for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. Midlife and...
Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes
The Social Work Role
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
The teacher and gerontological social work scholar Mercedes Bern-Klug joins experts on nursing, law, medicine, sociology, and social work to provide a thorough understanding of nursing home palliative care. Their broad definition of palliative care treats comfort care as appropriate across the illness...
Facing Age
Women Growing Older in Anti-Aging Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory...
Still Going Strong
Memoirs, Stories, and Poems About Great Older Women
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
It's terrible to get old? Life is all downhill after fifty? That's what our youth-centered culture may think but don't be duped. Selected as a finalist for 2006 Independent Publisher Book Awards, this book can change how you think about aging, even make you feel good about getting old!
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The Memory of Sound
Preserving the Sonic Past
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
This book explores the connections between sound and memory across all electronic media, with a particular focus on radio. Street explores our capacity to remember through sound and how we can help ourselves preserve a sense of self through the continuity of memory. In so doing, he analyzes how the...
by Marie E Cowart, Jill Quadagno
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Older people who would prefer to stay in their homes and states whose funds are being depleted by the rising costs of Medicaid payments to nursing homes find the current system of long-term care unsatisfactory. From Nursing Homes to Home Care arms educators, policymakers, public health professionals,...
The Uses of Reminiscence
New Ways of Working With Older Adults
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
The meaning and value of reminiscence in the lives of elders is beautifully explored.
Psychosocial Intervention in Long-Term Care
An Advanced Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
The responsibility of providing mental health evaluations and treatment to nursing home patients is increasingly falling on the shoulders of social services and nursing staff. Psychosocial Intervention in Long-Term Care provides the advanced techniques you, as a caregiver, need for assessing and intervening...
by D. Peter Birkett
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Get the vital clinical information you need with this comprehensive handbook!
In the decade since the first edition of this book, dramatic changes have taken place in the field of geriatric psychiatry. Psychiatry in the Nursing Home, Second Edition, presents timely information on the newest...
Waiting at the Gate
Creativity and Hope in the Nursing Home
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Here is the result of over ten years of hands-on clinical experience by two experts wha have worked with the elderly. The authors explore the contributions of the creative arts therapies, specifically movement and drama therapy, to the individual and communal welfare of residents in nursing homes.
Waiting...
Community Care for an Aging Society
Issues, Policies, and Services
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Most older persons desire to remain living in the community, but those requiring care are often at risk of not having their needs met. Families may find themselves unable to care for their older relatives, while formal services are often unavailable or inaccessible. Policies and services are beginning...