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Home and Identity in Late Life
Springer Publishing Company 2005; US$ 79.00Leading scholars, offering international and multidisciplinary viewpoints, examine the meaning of home to elders and the ways in which this meaning may be sustained, threatened, or modified according to changes associated with growing old. Organized into four sections--The Essence of Home, Disruptions of Home, Creating and Recreating Home, and Community... more...
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics 18, 1998
Springer Publishing Company 1998; US$ 90.00Focuses on behavioral and pharmacologic interventions for depression, treatments of late-life insomnia, behavior interventions in nursing homes, interventions for incontinence, and home modification interventions. For clinicians and researchers. more...
The Wisdom Trail
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 24.95An invitation to eavesdrop on a remarkable group of women who in their eighth and ninth decades reflect with candor and insight on the common threads in their well-lived lives The Wisdom Trail follows the life trajectories of extraordinary women, now in their seventies and eighties, who share to a remarkable extent a set of qualities that produced... more...
The Political Participation of Older People in Europe
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 95.00The first comparative analysis of the political behaviour of older people, using evidence from 20+ European democracies. In contrast to younger people across European societies, older people do not behave uniformly. For political participation in later life, it matters where and when individuals have grown up and in which country they become old. more...
Older People, Ageing and Social Work
Allen & Unwin 2010; US$ 45.44A systematic and research-based introduction to social work practice with older people. more...
Never Say Die
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95Susan Jacoby, an unsparing chronicler of unreason in American culture, now offers an impassioned, tough-minded critique of the myth that a radically new old age?unmarred by physical or mental deterioration, financial problems, or intimate loneliness?awaits the huge baby boom generation. Combining historical, social, and economic analysis with personal... more...
Understanding Old Age
SAGE Publications 2000; US$ 57.00Providing a comprehensive overview of themes of ageing from a global perspective, this ambitious text introduces the reader to a wide range of issues and policies on ageing. Topics examined include: theoretical perspectives on ageing in society; demographic trends; roles played by older people as political actors; migration; health; pensions; family... more...
Reforms for an Ageing Society
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2000; US$ 64.00This book reviews recent trends, reforms and lessons learned in the 29 OECD countries as they relate to ageing. Recent reforms have been driven mainly by fiscal factors - to adjust systems such as pensions and long-term care to the ageing of the baby boom generation. This remains a main concern in many countries. A new reform agenda is emerging, however,... more...
Gerontechnology
Charles C Thomas 2007; US$ 47.95Aging does not occur in isolation but is a reflection of societal attitudes and resulting practical outcomes. Practical responses are principally the purview of engineering, technology, and the biomedical sciences, while the societal attitudes represent the ethical, philosophical, and social bases of the culture. Together they provide the inevitable... more...
Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 30, 2010
Springer Publishing Company 2010; US$ 90.00A must-have professional reference for researchers and educators in psychology, sociology, anthropology, public health, genetics, medicine, and the biological sciences, this issue of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics discusses how complex biological, behavioral, and social systems interact to create and impact health. This knowledge is... more...









