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Because researchers often treat baby boomers of color as belonging to one group, quality data on the individual status of specific racial populations is lacking, leading to insufficiently designed programs, policies, and services. The absence of data is a testament to the invisibility of baby boomers of color in society and deeply affects the practice of social work and other helping professions that require culturally sensitive approaches. Melvin Delgado rectifies this injustice by providing a...

Depression is common among older adults who are in nursing homes. Through telling stories of their personal and family past older adults come to see meaning and patterns in their lives, and began to make sense of their place in this world. This product of Larry Wilson's pioneering efforts in the field of Transmissive Reminiscence Therapy was brought about in an effort to revolutionize therapy procedures in long-term-care facilities throughout the world. After helping countless older adults help...

A renowned medical researcher offers scientific proof that the mind actually improves with age, creating tremendous potential for growth and satisfaction in the later years. "The Golden Years" are being redefined. The fastest-growing segment of the population - those beyond the age of fifty - are no longer content to simply cope with the losses of age. Mental acuity and vitality are becoming a life-long pursuit. Now, the science of the mind is catching up with the Baby Boom generation. In this l...

The World Ageing Situation seeks to take the reader through various experiences of ageing throughout the world and the wide range of challenges, opportunities, responses and suggestions profiled by its authors. It covers ageing in different situations and transitions, by looking at development, rural ageing, older women and inter-generational equity.

Since they began in 1955, the Duke Longitudinal Studies have aging have been regarded as landmark investigations, amassing invaluable data on the typical physical changes that accompany aging, typical patterns of mental health and mental illness, psychological aging, and the normal social roles, self-concepts, satisfactions, and adjustments to retirement of the aged. Comprising information on more than 750 aged and middle-aged persons, these studies have contributed enormously to our ability to...

The first part of the book is entitled 'Family, Transition and Ageing' and addresses rapid social and economic changes in China through a kaleidoscope of differential perspectives that focus on how family continues to be an important reference point for the past, present and future institution in the care of older people. The second part of the book focuses on the tangible social forces associated with managing old age: 'Welfare, Consumption and Ageing'. This section is important in locating the...

"The Gerontological Prism" promotes disciplinary cooperation in aging research and practice. To some extent, each chapter explores a unified objective, that of generating a disciplinary-blind gerontology. The fundamental assumption throughout this book is that the aging individual and society can be enhanced by an understanding of the correlates of basic social, behavioral, demographic, economic, political, ethical, and biomedical processes involving aging. Each author touches on issues that hav...

Presenting concrete suggestions for starting and developing theater experiences of all types for senior adults, this handbook is designed to help three groups: professional theater people who may become involved in projects for older persons; professional workers with the elderly who may want to recruit or work with theater people; and senior adults who may want to encourage and enjoy a theater project. The handbook could be called a descriptive catalog of ways to enrich life in retirement cente...