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Developments in the Economics of Aging
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 45.00The number of Americans eligible to receive Social Security benefits will increase from forty-five million to nearly eighty million in the next twenty years. Retirement systems must therefore adapt to meet the demands of the largest aging population in our nation’s history. In Developments in the Economics of Aging , David A. Wise and a distinguished... more...
New Lifestyles in Old Age
The Policy Press 2004; US$ 25.00This report explores what it is like to live and work in the new Berryhill Retirement Village in Stoke-on-Trent (developed by The ExtraCare Charitable Trust and Touchstone Housing Association), and shows that retirement housing does not have to be planned and developed solely with middle-class professionals in mind. more...
Making Gray Gold
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 25.00This first hand report on the work of nurses and other caregivers in a nursing home is set powerfully in the context of wider political, economic, and cultural forces that shape and constrain the quality of care for America's elderly. Diamond demonstrates in a compelling way the price that business-as-usual policies extract from the elderly as well... more...
AGEING SOCIETIES
Taylor & Francis Ltd 2005; US$ 49.95Ageing Societies examines the myths, challenges and opportunities behind these figures more...
Old Age
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 133.00Based on themes such as status and welfare, Old Age from Antiquity to Post-Modernity examines the role of the elderly in history. This empirical study represents a substantial contribution to both the historical understanding of old age in past societies as well as the discussion of the contribution of post-modernism to historical scholarship. more...
Life, Death and the Elderly
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 43.95A valuable historical perspective on the economic, medical, class and gender relations of the elderly, which until now have received relatively little attention. more...
Images of Aging
Taylor and Francis 1995; US$ 64.95We all have a finite life-span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universiality of the ageing process, it is remarkable that there is almost a complete absence of study of culture and self-image of the middle aged and old. Images of Ageing: Cultural Representations of Later Life changes this. The contributors discuss images of ageing... more...
White Saris and Sweet Mangoes
University of California Press 2000; US$ 31.95This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social life,... more...
Women Ageing
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 55.95Women 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 second half of the life course. In doing so it... more...
Purpose & Power In Retirement
Templeton Press 2008; US$ 9.99Dr. Harold G. Koenig, with expertise in the fields of geriatrics, mental health, and religion, explains that the notion of retirement was in fact a marketing tool developed in the post-World War II period. Continuing today, society's image of retirement is based largely on myths, such as: things will get better when you retire—you'll... more...









