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Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care

Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care

Winner, 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, given by the Society for Medical Anthropology The troubling dynamic of the Am......more

Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care

Inequalities of Aging: Paradoxes of Independence in American Home Care

Winner, 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, given by the Society for Medical Anthropology The troubling dynamic of the Am......more

Aging and Diversity: An Active Learning Experience

Aging and Diversity: An Active Learning Experience

As the older population in the United States is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse, it is important to unders......more

Our Bodies Not Ourselves: Women Aging from Menopause to One Hundred

Our Bodies Not Ourselves: Women Aging from Menopause to One Hundred

In 1970, the best-seller Our Bodies Ourselves was published. The focus of the authors, the Boston Health Collective, was......more

The Politics of a Majority-Minority Nation: Aging, Diversity, and Immigration

The Politics of a Majority-Minority Nation: Aging, Diversity, and Immigration

"As the twin demographic shifts of population aging and diversity speed forward in America, it is hard to imagine a time......more

The New Dynamics of Ageing, Volume 2

The New Dynamics of Ageing, Volume 2

This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 1, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews o......more

The New Dynamics of Ageing, Volume 2

The New Dynamics of Ageing, Volume 2

This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 1, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews o......more

Our Bodies Not Ourselves: Women Aging from Menopause to One Hundred

Our Bodies Not Ourselves: Women Aging from Menopause to One Hundred

In 1970, the best-seller Our Bodies Ourselves was published. The focus of the authors, the Boston Health Collective, was......more

Ageing in Everyday Life: Materialities and Embodiments

Ageing in Everyday Life: Materialities and Embodiments

What does it mean to age in an ageist society? Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issu......more

Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain

Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain

As today s baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in t......more

Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain

Aging in Twentieth-Century Britain

As today s baby boomers reach retirement and old age, this timely study looks back at the first generation who aged in t......more

Elder Abuse and the Public’s Health

Elder Abuse and the Public’s Health

Presents an insightful, interdisciplinary approach for preventing elder abuse Encompassing the contributions of leading ......more

Care Across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration

Care Across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration

World-wide migration has an unsettling effect on social structures, especially on aging populations and eldercare. This ......more

Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age

Aging in the Past: Demography, Society, and Old Age

Thanks to improved food, medicine, and living conditions, the average age of the population is increasing throughout the......more

Silver Shades of Grey: Memos for Successful Ageing in the 21st Century

Silver Shades of Grey: Memos for Successful Ageing in the 21st Century

Are you a young person? Middle-aged? Old? It doesn’t really matter. Each of us grows older every second. Most of us age ......more

Silver Shades of Grey: Memos for Successful Ageing in the 21st Century

Silver Shades of Grey: Memos for Successful Ageing in the 21st Century

Are you a young person? Middle-aged? Old? It doesn’t really matter. Each of us grows older every second. Most of us age ......more

As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis

As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis

People are living longer, creating an unexpected boom in the elderly population. Longevity is increasing not only in wea......more

Home- and Community-Based Services for Older Adults: Aging in Context

Home- and Community-Based Services for Older Adults: Aging in Context

As older adults and their families opt out of nursing homes, a range of home and community-based services (HCBS) have ri......more

Dementia and Human Rights

Dementia and Human Rights

The time has come to further challenge biomedical and clinical thinking about dementia, which has for so long underpinne......more

Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age

Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age

Discover the inspiring national bestseller about aging and health that "will help us all live each year to the fullest" ......more

Imprisonment of the Elderly and Death in Custody: The Right to Review

Imprisonment of the Elderly and Death in Custody: The Right to Review

Over the past few decades, there has been a sharp increase in the number of elderly prisoners, and hence a rise in the n......more

Gerontology: The Basics

Gerontology: The Basics

Human aging is a complex, multi-faceted experience that unfolds over an entire lifetime. While human aging is universal,......more

Dementia and Human Rights

Dementia and Human Rights

The time has come to further challenge biomedical and clinical thinking about dementia, which has for so long underpinne......more

The New Dynamics of Ageing, Volume 1

The New Dynamics of Ageing, Volume 1

This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 2, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews o......more

Homeless Older Populations: A Practical Guide for the Interdisciplinary Care Team

Homeless Older Populations: A Practical Guide for the Interdisciplinary Care Team

Filled with key insights and field-tested knowledge, this is a concise, hands-on guide to how interdisciplinary team str......more

Finding Meaning in Later Life: Gathering and Harvesting the Fruits of Women’s Experience

Finding Meaning in Later Life: Gathering and Harvesting the Fruits of Women’s Experience

Finding Meaning in Later Life: Gathering and Harvesting the Fruits of Women’s Experience is an exploration in understand......more

Reconstructing Retirement: Work and Welfare in the UK and USA

Reconstructing Retirement: Work and Welfare in the UK and USA

Retirement is being ’reconstructed’, with the UK following the US path of abolishing mandatory retirement and increasing......more

Age Friendly Cities: A Global Perspective

Age Friendly Cities: A Global Perspective

This important book provides a comprehensive survey of different strategies for developing age-friendly communities, and......more

The New Dynamics of Ageing, Volume 1

The New Dynamics of Ageing, Volume 1

This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 2, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews o......more

Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons: International Perspectives

Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons: International Perspectives

  • Ingram,出版日期:2017-12-21

People are leading significantly longer lives than previous generations did, and the proportion of older people in the p......more

The Praeger Handbook of Mental Health and the Aging Community

The Praeger Handbook of Mental Health and the Aging Community

A comprehensive book written by experienced practitioners, this single-volume work describes clinical competencies, spec......more

Transport, Travel and Later Life

Transport, Travel and Later Life

This book, set within a social gerontology and transport behaviour studies paradigm, examines current debates and issues......more

Negotiating Ageing: Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life

Negotiating Ageing: Cultural Adaptation to the Prospect of a Long Life

The world is growing older and this is a historically unprecedented phenomenon. Negotiating such change, personally, soc......more

AARP: America’s Largest Interest Group and Its Impact

AARP: America’s Largest Interest Group and Its Impact

This examination of the history, development, activities, successes, and limitations of the largest membership organizat......more

Lives Through the Years: Styles of Life and Successful Aging

Lives Through the Years: Styles of Life and Successful Aging

Offers an account of the process of aging that provides answers and dispels once and for many of the myths surrounding t......more

Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp

Brain Rules for Aging Well: 10 Principles for Staying Vital, Happy, and Sharp

How come I can never find my keys? Why don t I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same sto......more

Ageless Nation: The Quest for Superlongevity and Physical Perfection

Ageless Nation: The Quest for Superlongevity and Physical Perfection

In this intriguing volume, futurist and author Michael G. Zey imagines a time in which technology has stretched human li......more

Ageing and Globalisation

Ageing and Globalisation

Population ageing and globalisation represent two of the most radical social transformations that have occurred. This bo......more

Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-term Residential Care

Care Home Stories: Aging, Disability, and Long-term Residential Care

Institutional care for seniors offers a cultural repository for fears and hopes about an aging population. Although enor......more

The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years

The End Game: How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years

Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award, Section on Aging and the Life Course, American Sociological Association Sen......more

Living Before Dying: Imagining and Remembering Home

Living Before Dying: Imagining and Remembering Home

This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frai......more

Aging and the Digital Life Course

Aging and the Digital Life Course

Across the life course, new forms of community, ways of keeping in contact, and practices for engaging in work, healthca......more

The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman’s Life

The Lioness in Winter: Writing an Old Woman’s Life

When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began storing the knowledge and skill......more

Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England: Years in the Making

Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England: Years in the Making

Seeking to better understand what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people th......more

Invitation to the Life Course: Towards New Understandings of Later Life

Invitation to the Life Course: Towards New Understandings of Later Life

Invitation to the Life Course: Toward New Understandings of Later Life discusses in depth the challenges of age, time, a......more

Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods

Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology: Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods

Research Design in Aging and Social Gerontology provides a review of methodological approaches and data-collection metho......more

The Ways Women Age: Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention

The Ways Women Age: Using and Refusing Cosmetic Intervention

The story of how and why some women choose to use, while others refuse, cosmetic intervention. What is it like to be a w......more

Aging in America: A Cultural History

Aging in America: A Cultural History

Aging is a preoccupation shared by beauty bloggers, serious journalists, scientists, doctors, celebrities--arguably all ......more

Women and Ageing in British Society Since 1500

Women and Ageing in British Society Since 1500

  • Ingram,出版日期:2016-12-23

Women have always made up the majority of older people: this examination of the lives of elderly women in Britain in the......more

Handbook of Gerontology Research Methods: Understanding Successful Aging

Handbook of Gerontology Research Methods: Understanding Successful Aging

The Handbook of Gerontology Research Methods offers a clear understanding of the most important research challenges and ......more

The Lotos-Eaters: Aging and Identity in a Yacht Club Community

The Lotos-Eaters: Aging and Identity in a Yacht Club Community

As the baby boom generation ages, there are few ethnographies that capture the dynamics of aging. This new book is based......more

Social Work with the Aged and Their Families

Social Work with the Aged and Their Families

Social Work with the Aged and Their Families presents the functional-age model (FAM) of intergenerational treatment, an ......more

The Lotos-Eaters: Aging and Identity in a Yacht Club Community

The Lotos-Eaters: Aging and Identity in a Yacht Club Community

As the baby boom generation ages, there are few ethnographies that capture the dynamics of aging. This new book is based......more

Age Studies: A Sociological Examination of How We Age and Are Aged Through the Life Course

Age Studies: A Sociological Examination of How We Age and Are Aged Through the Life Course

"With great rigour, yet an enviable lightness of touch, Susan Pickard has written an engaging and accessible book that s......more

Handbook of Gerontology Research Methods: Understanding Successful Aging

Handbook of Gerontology Research Methods: Understanding Successful Aging

The Handbook of Gerontology Research Methods offers a clear understanding of the most important research challenges and ......more

Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

How do we sustain agency and identity amidst the frailty of advanced old age? What role does care play in this process? ......more

The Short Guide to Aging and Gerontology

The Short Guide to Aging and Gerontology

As the field of aging and gerontology grows worldwide, this exciting guide introduces students to key issues and concept......more

Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

Personhood, Identity and Care in Advanced Old Age

Pushing forward new sociological theory, this book explores the theoretical and practical issues raised by ageing, and t......more

Perceptions of Community Crime in Ferguson, Mo: A Qualitative Study Prior to the Death of Michael Brown

Perceptions of Community Crime in Ferguson, Mo: A Qualitative Study Prior to the Death of Michael Brown

This Brief is based on a research study of aging adults’ perceptions and fear of crime in their community of Ferguson, M......more

The Life Course: A Sociological Introduction

The Life Course: A Sociological Introduction

A far-reaching but accessible sociological account of the life course, and how it can be used to conceptualise key issue......more

Diverse Perspectives on Aging in a Changing World

Diverse Perspectives on Aging in a Changing World

Focusing on under-researched aspects of social, economic and political change, this volume offers fresh insights into ag......more

The New Age of Ageing: How Society Needs to Change

The New Age of Ageing: How Society Needs to Change

As we age, society’s negative assumptions mean we become a burden, a problem and the excluded ’other’. With a convincing......more

Gerontechnology: Research, Practice, and Principles in the Field of Technology and Aging

Gerontechnology: Research, Practice, and Principles in the Field of Technology and Aging

Awarded third place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in Information Technology Two mega-trends of modern culture,......more

Caregiving Daughters: Accepting the Role of Caregiver for Elderly Parents

Caregiving Daughters: Accepting the Role of Caregiver for Elderly Parents

First published in 1998. It is likely that as long as dementia has been in existence, caregivers of cognitively-impaired......more

Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands

Reluctant Intimacies: Japanese Eldercare in Indonesian Hands

Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book ......more

Nutrition Support to Elderly Women: Influence on Diet Quality

Nutrition Support to Elderly Women: Influence on Diet Quality

Previous research on this topic has not focused on nutrition-specific social support for elderly women. This unique stud......more

Health Literacy Among Older Adults

Health Literacy Among Older Adults

The first graduate text to address health literacy in the aging population Low health literacy is a critical issue among......more

Folk Art and Aging: Life-Story Objects and Their Makers

Folk Art and Aging: Life-Story Objects and Their Makers

Growing old doesn’t have to be seen as an eventual failure but rather as an important developmental stage of creativity.......more

Folk Art and Aging: Life-Story Objects and Their Makers

Folk Art and Aging: Life-Story Objects and Their Makers

Growing old doesn’t have to be seen as an eventual failure but rather as an important developmental stage of creativity.......more

Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Spaces and Practices of Care

Ageing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Spaces and Practices of Care

In-depth ethnographic analysis provides the pan-African evidence and analysis needed to move forward debates about who a......more

Beyond Successful and Active Ageing: A Theory of Model Ageing

Beyond Successful and Active Ageing: A Theory of Model Ageing

This controversial book argues that concepts such as â ~successful’ and â ~active’ ageing are potentially dangerous para......more

Ageing and Globalisation

Ageing and Globalisation

This book provides, for the first time, an accessible overview of how population ageing and globalisation - two of the m......more

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