Caring and Working in Ageing Societies
Self-Direction
by Valerie J. Bradley, Marc H. Fenton, and Kevin J. Mahoney
Cultural Perspectives on Aging
Current demographic developments and change due to long life expectancies, low birth rates, changing family structures, and economic and political crises causing migration and flight are having a significant impact on intergenerational relationships, the social welfare system, the job market and what elderly people (can) expect from their retirement and environment. The socio-political relevance of the categories of 'age' and 'ageing' have been increasing and gaining much attention within differ...
May Sarton's eagerly awaited journals have recorded her life as a single, woman writer and, in later years, as a woman confronting old age. She completed this pilgrimage through her eighty-second year a few months before she died in 1995.
A penetrating look at the coming increase in Canada's seniors, its effect on communities, and how to plan for it.
Written for those affected by an elderly parent's inability to continue living autonomously, "When Aging Parents Can't Live Alone provides comprehensive information on in-house help, retirement communities, assisted living options, and nursing facilities. Financial, medical, and emotional considerations are discussed, enabling families to make healthy decisions about this sometimes delicate adn emotional situation.
" . . . a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world . . . " —Kirkus Reviews Jean Améry (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limits) thought of On Suicide as a continuation of the kind of reflections on mortality he had laid down in On Aging. But here he probes further and more deeply into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death.
Political Participation of Older People in Europe, The: The Greying of Our Democracies
by Achim Dr Goerres
Key Concepts in Social Gerontology (Key Concepts (Sage))
by Judith Phillips, Kristine Ajrouch, and Sarah Hillcoat-Nallentamby
Ageing and the Crisis in Health and Social Care (Ageing in a Global Context)
by Bethany Simmonds
Neoliberal political discourses have normalised the belief in northern European countries that individuals are responsible for their health and wellbeing, regardless of social class, gender or ethnic background. Drawing on examples from Germany, Sweden and the UK, Simmonds critically examines how the neoliberalisation and marketisation of health and social care have created an adverse environment for older people, who lack social and cultural capital to access the care they need. This crucial an...
Background Paper on Income for the Nineteen Seventy-One White House Conference on Aging
by Yung-Ping Chen
Aging Vol. 4
World Population Ageing, 1950-2050
Citizenship (Research Paper: Carnegie Inquiry into the Third Age, #8)
by Eric Midwinter