Gerontology category: 668 books
What Does It Mean to Grow Old?
Reflections from the Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1986
In What Does It Mean to Grow Old? essayists come to grips as best they can with the phenomenon of an America that is about to become the Old Country. They have been drawn from every relevant discipline—gerontology, social medicine, politics, health, anthropology, ethics, law—and asked to speak their mind. Most of them write extremely well [and their] sharply individual voices are heard.
Ageing, insight and wisdom
Meaning and practice across the lifecourse
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
This book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the evolving values, priorities and ways of communicating that make later life fascinating. It explores what creating ‘meaning’ in later life really implies, for older people themselves, for how to conceptualise older...
by Meredith Wallace Kazer, PhD, APRN
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
Features evidence-based, practical, and effective strategies for creating and maintaining optimal quality of life for older adults
This globally focused resource integrates sound research evidence, real-life case scenarios, and effective, practical strategies to address a key health care initiative...
Endnotes
An Intimate Look at the End of Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
In the summer of 1996, Ruth Ray, a gerontologist in her forties, befriended an eighty-two-year-old man suffering from Parkinson's. The two remained close until the end of his life, sharing stories and memories while building a deep relationship. Part memoir, part biography, Endnotes explores how people...
by Claire Welford
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
As the world population ages and people live longer, nurses and healthcare workers, no matter what area they work in, will encounter older people. This pocket-sized (120x80mm), spiral-bound guide in the popular Nursing & Health Survival Guide series aims to provide you with the basic but fundamental...
by Jimmy Carter
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
"We are not alone in our worry about both the physical aspect of aging and the prejudice that exists toward the elderly, which is similar to racism or sexism. What makes it different is that the prejudice also exists among those of us who are either within this group or rapidly approaching it....
Still Me...After All These Years
24 Writers Reflect on Aging
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2017
Poignant...Humorous...Brutally Honest!
A collection of personal reflections guaranteed to keep you inspired and entertained on that journey we all travel together: The Journey of Aging
With a blend of grace, dignity, warmth and humor, women and men from 60 to 90 and from all...
Peak
Reinventing Middle Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Society is changing faster than policies and attitudes are keeping up with. People are living longer, retiring from work later, and remaining active and valuable contributors to the community well into and beyond their 50s and 60s.
Peak: Reinventing Middle Age focuses on Australians in the...
Encore
Finding Work that Matters in the Second Half of Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
In one of the most significant social trends of the new century, and the biggest transformation of the American workforce since the women's movement, members of the baby boom generation are inventing a new phase of work.
Encore tells the stories of encore career pioneers who are not content,...
This Chair Rocks
A Manifesto Against Ageism
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age.
In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty...
Gay and Gray
The Older Homosexual Man, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
In the absence of accurate information, American culture has upheld a distorted view of what it means to be an older gay man. Gay and Gray is the first and only scholarly full-length treatment of older gay men in America today. It breaks the stereotype that older gay men are strange, lonely creatures...
At Seventy
A Journal
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
May Sarton’s honest and engrossing journal of her seventieth year, spent living and working on the Maine coast
May Sarton’s journals are a captivating look at a rich artistic life. In this, her ode to aging, she savors the daily pleasures of tending to her garden, caring for her dogs, and...
Prime Time
How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement And Transform America
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2008
Over the next three decades, the number of Americans over fifty will double, swelling to more than a quarter of the population. Already we are living thirty years longer than a century ago, with further gains expected in the coming years. The end result is a new stage of life, one as long or longer...
One Nation under AARP
The Fight over Medicare, Social Security, and America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2011
This book provides a fresh and even-handed account of the newly modernized AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons)—the 40-million member insurance giant and political lobby that continues to set the national agenda for Medicare and Social Security. Frederick R. Lynch addresses...