Continuing Care Needs of Older People (Social Work Monographs)
by Ann McDonald and Mary McLean
Educational Activity Programs for Older Adults
by Janice Williams and Janet C Downs
If you have ever found yourself frustrated by the lack of printed materials for ideas to be used in conducting classes or activities with older adults, look no more! Educational Activity Programs for Older Adults is an innovative guide for planning programs that meet the social, recreational, rehabilitative, and educational needs of older adults.This valuable resource includes detailed instructions for two activity programs and a list of events for each month of the year. Particular emphasis is...
As they enter the dialogue and debate of post-moderism, cultural anthropologists are caught in a transition from emphasizing what they know about peoples of the world to the development of questions about how they know these things and about the many complicated ways in which experience is endowed with meaning. In "Anthropological Poetics", 14 distinguished anthropologists cast their imaginations self-consciously in a search for less conventional forms of understanding and expression. These essa...
Sociological Analysis of Aging: The Gay Male Perspective
by Joe Michael Cruz
Due to falling fertility rates, the ageing of the baby-boom cohort, and increases in life expectancy, the percentage of the population that is elderly is expected to increase rapidly in the United States and Japan over the first two decades of the 21st century. The 14 essays in this volume seek to show that, despite differences in culture and social and government structure, population ageing will have many similar macro and micro effects on the economic status and behaviour of the elderly in bo...
Colorful and enlightening vignettes about life by everyday people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties. When social worker Wendy Lustbader was asked to take down the histories of residents in a retirement community, she discovered that "the man with Alzheimer's in room 410" was actually ninety-six-year-old Ole Harlen, a former concert pianist. "The woman who people-watches in the lobby" was really Lila Lane, who eloped to Tijuana with her sweetheart at age sixteen, and who at age seventy-...
The Australian population is rapidly getting older, demanding important policy and service decisions. This groundbreaking book is the first to explore a 100-year history of older people in Australia from 1880 to 1980. Over that period the aged suffered as 'forgotten people' until 1945, when there was the promise of a new deal for the elderly. Major themes examined include family histories of aged care, poverty, social and medical policy, gender, the impact of wars and economic depression, hous...
Romeo and Juliet: Webster's Czech Thesaurus Edition
by William Shakespeare
Processus de Changement de Comportements Chez Les A n s Arthritiques (Omn.Univ.Europ.)
by Nour-K
The Collective Spirit of Aging Across Cultures (International Perspectives on Aging)
Ageing (OECD insights)
