Giving a comprehensive overview of the discipline, this book is designed as a supplementary text for students of social gerontology and ageing policy. Highlighting policy implications, specialists consider issues such as: long term care; ways of measuring well-being; social relationships of the elderly; attitudes to retirement; health and crime.@ ′the book does a good job in prompting deeper consideration of day-to-day issues about elderly people and points up many unexplored areas worthy of research.......This is a useful book, combining much of general interst for staff working with older people with clear and important messages for its target audience of researchers and policy theorists′ @ GPS 3:2
- ISBN10 0803928955
- ISBN13 9780803928954
- Publish Date 27 August 1987 (first published 10 August 1987)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 February 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English