Gerontology category: 668 books
Dementia and Wandering Behavior
Concern for the Lost Elder
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2006
Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!
Alzheimer's is quickly becoming the epidemic of the 21st century. Today, an estimated four million Americans suffer from this devastating disease. This number could explode to 14 million by the year 2050, when baby boomers come of age.
Written...
Depressed Older Adults
Education and Screening
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Designated a Doody's Core Title!
"This volume is one of the best practice-oriented books on mental health and aging that I have read. I hope that the coming years will see substantive developments in outreach to depressed older adults. This book lays a solid and credible foundation for...
Alzheimer's Day Care
A Basic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
A book whose purpose is to offer guidance to individuals, organizations and agencies on how to develop day care programmes for patients with Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia.
A range of programme aspects are covered from administrative details to social factors and evaluation techniques.
Growing Up
Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Growing Up: Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years is a sensitive volume devoted to helping older adults retain their status as meaningful members of their congregations and communities. In an honest approach, based on the foundations that old age is supposed to happen, the future belongs to the old,...
Population ageing from a lifecourse perspective
Critical and international approaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Populations around the globe are ageing rapidly. This demographic shift affects families, market structures and social provisions. This timely volume, part of the Ageing and the Lifecourse series, argues that the lifecourse perspective helps us understand the causes and effects of population ageing....
Community Resources for Older Adults
Programs and Services in an Era of Change
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Community Resources for Older Adults provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on programs, services, and policies pertaining to older adults. Authors Robbyn R. Wacker and Karen A. Roberto build reader awareness of programs and discuss how to better understand help-seeking behavior, as well as...
Improving Medication Management in Home Care
Issues and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
Help stop the widespread problem of medication errors among the elderly
The problem of medication errors among the elderly is widespread. Improving Medication Management in Home Care: Issues and Solutions tackles this tough issue by closely examining the challenges faced in preventing medication...
Women Ageing
Changing Identities, Challenging Myths
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
Women Ageing provides a better understanding of what ageing is like for women and challenges the myths which have grown up around the ageing process. Blending the scholarly, the personal and the political, it reveals the range of strategies and identities women adopt to manage the transitions of the...
University-Linked Retirement Communities
Student Visions of Eldercare
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
University-Linked Retirement Communities focuses on the special attributes of a retirement community designed as an integral part of a university. It discusses the theoretical and practical aspects of such a retirement community, which provides a rich and varied context for older people to be exposed...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
Healthy Aging in Sociocultural Context examines two emerging trends facing countries throughout the world: population aging and population diversity. It makes a unique contribution to our understanding of these timely issues by examining their implications for healthy aging, a topic of increasing...
Health Expectations for Older Women
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
Explore international trends in health and longevity--with a special focus on older women!
This essential book examines the latest research on life expectancy and “active life expectancy”--the number of years that women can expect to live free from major disability--in developed and developing...
by Judith Howe
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Examine recently developed concepts and strategies to help social workers and caregivers improve the quality of care for senior citizens!
Older People and Their Caregivers Across the Spectrum of Care focuses on two major aspects of elderly care: assessment and caregiving. This book examines...
Housing for the Elderly
Policy and Practice Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Find out how housing options for the elderly are changing—and not always for the better
To maintain or improve their quality of life, many seniors in the United States will move to new locations and into new types of housing. Housing for the Elderly addresses the key aspects of the transitions...
Gender, ageing and extended working life
Cross-national perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Nations that are raising retirement ages appear to work on the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later. 'Gender, ageing and extended working life' challenges both this narrative, and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending...