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Older People, Ageing and Social Work: Knowledge for Practice

Older People, Ageing and Social Work: Knowledge for Practice

’Essential reading for practitioners, educators and researchers within the general field of social work with older peopl......more

Social Work and Geriatric Services

Social Work and Geriatric Services

  • Ingram,出版日期:2021-03-31

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Social Work & Geriatric Services examines many facets concerning t......more

Aging People, Aging Places: Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges of Growing Older in Canada

Aging People, Aging Places: Experiences, Opportunities and Challenges of Growing Older in Canada

How well do the places where we live support the wellbeing of older adults? The Canadian population is growing older and......more

Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care: Photovoice, Photography, and Poetry in Action

Creative Arts-Based Research in Aged Care: Photovoice, Photography, and Poetry in Action

This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that new residents and their fa......more

Socio-Gerontechnology: Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology

Socio-Gerontechnology: Interdisciplinary Critical Studies of Ageing and Technology

Social change in the twenty-first century is shaped by both demographic changes associated with ageing societies and sig......more

Foreign Countries of Old Age: East and Southeast European Perspectives on Aging

Foreign Countries of Old Age: East and Southeast European Perspectives on Aging

  • Ingram,出版日期:2021-02-15

The exploration of what May Sarton calls the foreign country of old age usually does not go far beyond the familiar: t......more

Age at Work: Ambiguous Boundaries of Organizations, Organizing and Ageing

Age at Work: Ambiguous Boundaries of Organizations, Organizing and Ageing

Age at Work explores the myriad ways in which ’age’ is at ’work’ across society, organizations and workplaces, with spec......more

Retirement and Its Discontents: Why We Wont Stop Working, Even If We Can

Retirement and Its Discontents: Why We Wont Stop Working, Even If We Can

In the popular imagination, retirement promises a well-deserved rest--idle days spent traveling, volunteering, pursuing ......more

Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities: Multidisciplinary International Perspectives

Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities: Multidisciplinary International Perspectives

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-10-01

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. With an increasingly diverse ageing population, we need to expand our unde......more

Fear of Crime Among the Elderly: A Multi-Method Study of the Small Town Experience

Fear of Crime Among the Elderly: A Multi-Method Study of the Small Town Experience

This multimethod study of crime and the elderly in a small-town setting approaches the related issues from varied perspe......more

Dying in Old Age: U.S. Practice and Policy

Dying in Old Age: U.S. Practice and Policy

Three-quarters of deaths in the U.S. today occur to people over the age of 65, following chronic illness. This new exper......more

Dying in Old Age: U.S. Practice and Policy

Dying in Old Age: U.S. Practice and Policy

Three-quarters of deaths in the U.S. today occur to people over the age of 65, following chronic illness. This new exper......more

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 40

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 40

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-09-14

This fortieth volume of Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics focuses on economic inequality in later life. Cuttin......more

Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of Retirement

Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of Retirement

The 21st century has seen growing numbers of seniors turning to migration in response to newfound challenges to traditio......more

Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of Retirement

Chinese Senior Migrants and the Globalization of Retirement

The 21st century has seen growing numbers of seniors turning to migration in response to newfound challenges to traditio......more

New Challenges to Ageing in the Rural North: A Critical Interdisciplinary Perspective

New Challenges to Ageing in the Rural North: A Critical Interdisciplinary Perspective

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-09-04

Offers a multi-dimensional picture of ageing issues in the rural northern context Demonstrates how political positions a......more

A Senior Moment: Cultural Mediations of Memory and Ageing

A Senior Moment: Cultural Mediations of Memory and Ageing

Aging and memory - the interaction of these two aspects of life is something that everybody has to face eventually. The ......more

Visitors at the End of Life: Finding Meaning and Purpose in Near-Death Phenomena

Visitors at the End of Life: Finding Meaning and Purpose in Near-Death Phenomena

About 30 percent of hospice patients report a "visitation" by someone who is not there, a phenomenon known in end-of-lif......more

Empowering the Elderly?: How

Empowering the Elderly?: How "help to Self-Help" Health Interventions Shape Ageing and Eldercare in Denmark

Health programmes that offer help to self-help are meant to empower ageing adults to remain independent and self-suffici......more

Aging, Work, and Retirement

Aging, Work, and Retirement

Aging, Work, and Retirement presents the reasons older men and women are staying in the workforce as long as they are ab......more

Aging, Work, and Retirement

Aging, Work, and Retirement

Aging, Work, and Retirement presents the reasons older men and women are staying in the workforce as long as they are ab......more

Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

Beyond Filial Piety: Rethinking Aging and Caregiving in Contemporary East Asian Societies

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-07-01

East Asia is home to some of the oldest and most rapidly aging populations on earth. Known for Confucian filial piety an......more

Television in the Nursing Home: A Case Study of the Media Consumption Routines and Strategies of Nursing Home Residents

Television in the Nursing Home: A Case Study of the Media Consumption Routines and Strategies of Nursing Home Residents

Television in the Nursing Home: A Case Study of the Media Consumption Routines and Strategies of Nursing Home Residents ......more

Religious Literacy in Hospice Care: Challenges and Controversies

Religious Literacy in Hospice Care: Challenges and Controversies

This is the first book to explore how religion, belief and spirituality are negotiated in hospice care. Specifically, it......more

Ageing, Diversity and Equality: Social Justice Perspectives

Ageing, Diversity and Equality: Social Justice Perspectives

Current understandings of ageing and diversity are impoverished in three main ways. Firstly, with regards to thinking ab......more

Losses in Later Life

Losses in Later Life

Achieve faith and understanding when dealing with the loss of a loved one or a major change in your life! Losses in Late......more

Losses in Later Life

Losses in Later Life

Achieve faith and understanding when dealing with the loss of a loved one or a major change in your life! Losses in Late......more

Downsizing: Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life

Downsizing: Confronting Our Possessions in Later Life

As life unfolds, things tend to accumulate. When older adults undergo health, residential, and marital changes, they wil......more

Movies, Music and Memory: Tools for Wellbeing in Later Life

Movies, Music and Memory: Tools for Wellbeing in Later Life

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-04-15

Presenting research findings from recent studies, including pilot projects led by the authors in the UK and Brazil, this......more

Death and Social Policy in Challenging Times

Death and Social Policy in Challenging Times

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-02-11

As death rates continue to rise, this collection brings together scholars engaged in policy associated with death to ana......more

Old Age in the New Land: The American Experience Since 1790

Old Age in the New Land: The American Experience Since 1790

Originally published in 1978. Drawing on a wide range of sources from social, intellectual, and political history, Old A......more

Ageing Identities and Women’s Everyday Talk in a Hair Salon

Ageing Identities and Women’s Everyday Talk in a Hair Salon

The ageing of the world’s populations, particularly in Western developed countries, is a well-documented phenomenon; and......more

Advances in Elder Abuse Research: Practice, Legislation and Policy

Advances in Elder Abuse Research: Practice, Legislation and Policy

  • Ingram,出版日期:2020-01-02

Chapter 1. Introduction (Amanda Phelan).- Chapter 2. The intersection of ageism and elder abuse (Amanda Phelan & Liat Ay......more

Global Aging, Second Edition: Comparative Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

Global Aging, Second Edition: Comparative Perspectives on Aging and the Life Course

Praise for the first edition: "This book is exemplary in amassing demographic, policy, and sociopsychological data from ......more

Ageing Resource Communities: New Frontiers of Rural Population Change, Community Development and Voluntarism

Ageing Resource Communities: New Frontiers of Rural Population Change, Community Development and Voluntarism

Throughout the world’s hinterland regions, people are growing old in resource-dependent communities that were neither or......more

Understanding Aging and Diversity: Theories and Concepts

Understanding Aging and Diversity: Theories and Concepts

The demographic phenomena of increased life expectancy, increasing global population of older adults, and a larger numbe......more

Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

Later years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts. No longer confined to the sphere o......more

Ageing in Contexts of Migration

Ageing in Contexts of Migration

Population ageing and the globalisation of international migration are challenging the research agendas of social scient......more

Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age

Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age

This book examines the transformations in home lives arising in later life and resulting from global migrations. It prov......more

Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature: Narrating Age in the Bildungsroman

Ageing, Gender, and Illness in Anglophone Literature: Narrating Age in the Bildungsroman

This study establishes age as a category of literary history, delineating age in its interaction with gender and narrati......more

The Privatization of Care: The Case of Nursing Homes

The Privatization of Care: The Case of Nursing Homes

Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it dif......more

Ageing in an Ageing Society: Critical Reflections

Ageing in an Ageing Society: Critical Reflections

This book emerges from a multi-sectorial and multi-disciplinary conference entitled "Building Hospitable Communities for......more

The Privatization of Care: The Case of Nursing Homes

The Privatization of Care: The Case of Nursing Homes

Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it dif......more

The Human Elder in Nature, Culture, and Society

The Human Elder in Nature, Culture, and Society

Chronicling the evolution of David Gutmann’s cross-cultural, empirical studies on which his developmental theories of ag......more

Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan

Making Meaningful Lives: Tales from an Aging Japan

What makes for a meaningful life? In the Japanese context, the concept of ikigai provides a clue. Translated as "that wh......more

Senior Cohousing: A New Way Forward for Active Older Adults

Senior Cohousing: A New Way Forward for Active Older Adults

This book presents a concise description and qualitative exploration of a new residential option for older adults: senio......more

Introduction to Aging, Second Edition: A Positive, Interdisciplinary Approach

Introduction to Aging, Second Edition: A Positive, Interdisciplinary Approach

The second edition of this engaging text reflects a welcome new paradigm for aging--that of aging as a positive stage of......more

Ageing in Asia: Contemporary Trends and Policy Issues

Ageing in Asia: Contemporary Trends and Policy Issues

Ageing in Asia contains a selection of leading social systems and programs, with interesting case-studies offering innov......more

Gerontechnology: Understanding Older Adult Information and Communication Technology Use

Gerontechnology: Understanding Older Adult Information and Communication Technology Use

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read onli......more

Readings in the Political Economy of Aging

Readings in the Political Economy of Aging

Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in Americ......more

Diversity: New Approaches to Ethnic Minority Aging

Diversity: New Approaches to Ethnic Minority Aging

Containing ideas and perspectives, this monograph examines the evolutionary and future considerations for diversity in a......more

Elder Justice, Ageism, and Elder Abuse

Elder Justice, Ageism, and Elder Abuse

"The beauty of this important book lies in its conclusion... This book provides the roadmap that has led us to our curre......more

Aging Within Transnational Families: The Case of Older Peruvians

Aging Within Transnational Families: The Case of Older Peruvians

Transnational migration studies has produced a wealth of literature on migrants’ economic, cultural, social and politica......more

Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: A Global Perspective

Age-Friendly Cities and Communities: A Global Perspective

As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories......more

Grandparenting: Influences on the Dynamics of Family Relationships

Grandparenting: Influences on the Dynamics of Family Relationships

This landmark resource investigates and documents current and predicted trends regarding the experiences of grandparents......more

Designing Environments for People With Dementia: A Systematic Literature Review

Designing Environments for People With Dementia: A Systematic Literature Review

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and is freely available to read online. This book systematically explores......more

Time and Performer Training

Time and Performer Training

Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes ......more

Palliative Care: A Guide for Health Social Workers

Palliative Care: A Guide for Health Social Workers

Accessible and instructive, ÂPalliative CareÂguides and inspires health social workers to incorporate palliative care pr......more

Golden Years?: Social Inequality in Later Life

Golden Years?: Social Inequality in Later Life

Thanks to advances in technology, medicine, Social Security, and Medicare, old age for many Americans is characterized b......more

Contemporary Narratives of Dementia: Ethics, Ageing, Politics

Contemporary Narratives of Dementia: Ethics, Ageing, Politics

This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with dee......more

Contemporary Perspectives on Ageism

Contemporary Perspectives on Ageism

  • Ingram,出版日期:2018-12-22

This open access book provides a comprehensive perspective on the concept of ageism, its origins, the manifestation and ......more

The Aging Networks: A Guide to Policy, Programs, and Services

The Aging Networks: A Guide to Policy, Programs, and Services

Praise for the Eighth Edition: "This small volume is not only an excellent learning tool, but also a "must-have" handboo......more

Policy and Program Planning for Older Adults and People With Disabilities: Practice Realities and Visions

Policy and Program Planning for Older Adults and People With Disabilities: Practice Realities and Visions

The second edition of this landmark textbook is distinguished by its pioneering approach to encompassing disability and ......more

Aging in America 2018

Aging in America 2018

Today, concerns about the financial stability of Social Security, health care costs, and the supply of caregivers are al......more

The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement: A Critical Appraisal

The Global Age-Friendly Community Movement: A Critical Appraisal

The age-friendly community movement is a global phenomenon, currently growing with the support of the WHO and multiple i......more

Religious Literacy in Hospice Care: Challenges and Controversies

Religious Literacy in Hospice Care: Challenges and Controversies

This is the first book to explore how religion, belief and spirituality are negotiated in hospice care. Specifically, it......more

Baby Boomers, Age, and Beauty

Baby Boomers, Age, and Beauty

Drawing from a variety of sources from ageing research, history and gender studies, this book is a rich exploration of t......more

Men, Masculinities, and Aging: The Gendered Lives of Older Men

Men, Masculinities, and Aging: The Gendered Lives of Older Men

Men, Masculinities, and Aging explores the intersections of generations, class, geographies, and masculinities. It offer......more

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