Designated a Doody’s Core Title! "The authors have created a book that comfortably combines substantial research finding......more

Population ageing is projected to affect all countries across the world in coming decades. The current rate of populatio......more

Designated a Doody’s Core Title! [This] volume contributes useful knowledge not only to the field of aging studies, but ......more

Brazil is in the middle of a profound socioeconomic transformation driven by demographic change. Because of profound cha......more

Elder Wisdom invites us to a refreshing new vision of aging in the company of one hundred creative elders who share thei......more

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In 1970, a sixty-five-year-old Philadelphian named Maggie Kuhn began vocally opposing the notion of mandatory retirement......more

Based on 40 years’ interviewing experience, this book illustrates the variety of religious, spiritual and other beliefs ......more

Based on 40 years’ interviewing experience, this book illustrates the variety of religious, spiritual and other beliefs ......more

Named a 2013 Doody’s Core Title! Doody’s Medical Reviews Score: 92, 4 Stars! [This book] is well written and achieves it......more

This book provides insights into the theoretical framework of tensions related to care for children and the elderly. I......more

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The question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-......more

With the world s population getting increasingly older, there has never been a more pressing need for the study of old a......more

The indisputable fact of Japan’s rapidly aging population has been known for some time. But beyond statistics and implic......more

The indisputable fact of Japan’s rapidly aging population has been known for some time. But beyond statistics and implic......more

This book provides insights into the theoretical framework of ’tensions’ related to care for children and the elderly. I......more

Many countries will be confronted with ageing populations in the coming decades. This will crucially affect the economic......more

Due to population explosion and a global increase in average life expectancies, an unprecedentedly high percentage of th......more

Portraying people who have lived and worked in long-term nursing home facilities, Elder Care Catastrophe reveals how org......more

Ethics, Aging and Society...is the first major work in ten years to critically address issues and methodologies in aging......more

The Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Seventh Edition, provides a basic reference source on the behavioral processes ......more

Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, ......more

This study marks a major step in making collaboration between seniors, academic researchers, and community researchers a......more

Current social policy recognises that older people should be treated as experts in their own lives and be actively invol......more

Current social policy recognises that older people should be treated as experts in their own lives and be actively invol......more

This much-needed book provides honest, clear, and helpful medical information for older adults and their caregivers, wri......more

The ageing of the population has enormous implications for the provision of, and access to, health care. Christina Victo......more

The ageing of the population has enormous implications for the provision of, and access to, health care. Christina Victo......more

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Dementia has been widely debated from the perspectives of biomedicine and social psychology. This book broadens the deba......more

This book, now in paperback, revisits Peter Townsend’s classic study of residential care for older people in Britain con......more

Communication and Swallow Changes in Healthy Aging Adults compiles and presents the available research on healthy aging ......more

Sheilagh O’Leary and Rhonda Pelley spent two summers travelling from Bonavista Bay to the Great Northern Peninsula and t......more

This insightful and moving book looks at how people of various ages view the process of aging and the social and emotion......more

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Offers practical advice to retirees while challenging them to approach this period of life with fidelity to the inner va......more

With socio-economic and demographic changes taking place in contemporary societies, new patterns of family relations are......more

With socio-economic and demographic changes taking place in contemporary societies, new patterns of family relations are......more

The teacher and gerontological social work scholar Mercedes Bern-Klug joins experts on nursing, law, medicine, sociology......more

There is a movement to transform the hospital-like setting of long-term care facilities into a warm, home-like environme......more

Over the next 40 years the number of people aged 60+ in the world, many of whom live in developing regions, will grow by......more

Supporting People with Dementia at Home details a groundbreaking study of an intensive care management scheme designed f......more

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It is increasingly recognized that an individual s experience of old age is fundamentally influenced by their earlier li......more

The United Nations World Assembly on Aging has made advancing health and well-being into old age a worldwide call for ac......more

An informed and often moving account of the crucial role of place in the lives of elders and what researchers and city p......more

Against a background of debate around global ageing and what this means in terms of the future care need of older people......more

Many western nations have experienced a rise in the number of marginalised and deprived inner-city neighbourhoods. Despi......more

Specialist forms of housing with care are becoming increasingly popular in the United Kingdom, largely as a result of th......more

Specialist forms of housing with care are becoming increasingly popular in the United Kingdom, largely as a result of th......more

In Tempered in the Revolutionary Furnace Yihong Pan tells her story, and that of her generation of urban middle school g......more

This collection uses theoretical perspectives from developmental, social, and behavioral sciences to examine the many wa......more

How can we understand older people as real human beings, value their wisdom, and appreciate that their norms and purpose......more

A common perception of older age is that of a life characterised by loss and decline. Changes in health status, social r......more

When his next-door neighbors in a quaint New England town suddenly pick up and move to a gated retired community in Flor......more

The proliferation of old age homes and increasing numbers of elderly living alone are startling new phenomena in India. ......more

Although attitudes toward the aged and their care are inherent in any society, gerontology itself is a relatively recent......more

What did it mean to be old in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England? This eight-volume edition brings together sel......more

Across the world governments in mature industrial and post-industrial economies are concerned about the ageing populatio......more

Depression in older adults has been widely studied in the institutionalized population but less is known about independe......more

Japan and Germany have faced very similar challenges, namely ageing populations, changing employment structures, and glo......more

This book examines fundamental issues of elder respect, how it is practiced and perceived in the broad context of human ......more

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This book presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most pressing challenges facing Japan today: population declin......more

Clive Beaumont was diagnosed with Younger Onset Dementia at age 45, when his children were aged just 3 and 4. He had bec......more

Social differences in health and mortality constitute a persistent finding in epidemiological, demographic, and sociolog......more

Lifting Our Voices is the only book to explore the dual roles of professional social workers who are also family caregiv......more

Getting old sucks, says best-selling author Dr. Lillian Rubin. With refreshing candor, she digs down under the statistic......more

Targeted as the ’grey consumer’, people retiring now participated in the creation of the post-war consumer culture. Thes......more

Practitioners who work with clients at the end of their lives face difficult decisions concerning the client’s self-dete......more

[A] useful reference book. Readers will find themselves returning to chapters again and again... --PsycCritiques This is......more