Population Ageing from a Lifecourse Perspective (Ageing and the Lifecourse)
Populations around the globe are ageing rapidly. This demographic shift affects families, market structures and social provisions. This timely volume, part of the Ageing and the Lifecourse series, argues that the lifecourse perspective helps us understand the causes and effects of population ageing. The lifecourse perspective suggests that individuals' experiences at an early age can influence their decisions and behaviour at a later age. This much-needed volume combines insights from different...
Many of us are fast approaching the "golden years" of retirement, wondering with fear - and hope - what the future holds for us. And you won't find a better companion for the journey of aging than Jane Sigloh. She's witty, perceptive, and wise. A retired Episcopal priest, she is possessed of both reverent awe and irreverent honesty about the facts and fantasies of growing old. She interweaves the insights of Scripture, poetry, fiction, and philosophy into her memories and reflections on the chal...
Japan has many unique strengths, but it also faces numerous challenges, many of which are related to population ageing. Rapid demographic change is projected to reduce Japan's population by one-quarter by 2060 while increasing the share of elderly people from 29% of the total population to 38%, which would be the highest share among advanced countries. This book analyses the Japanese economy and the challenges it faces, and suggests policies to promote wellbeing, high living standards, fiscal su...
Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction: Training for Success
by Melissa Hawkins, Kenneth Backman, and Francis A. McGuire
The Aging Networks
by Kelly Niles-Yokum, Donna Wagner, and Phd Kelly Niles-Yokum Mpa
Drs. Niles-Yokum and Wagner have written a comprehensive and accessible overview of aging services in the United States, from the evolution of a formal aging network through the older Americans Act to innovative new programs aimed at disaster preparedness, lifelong learning, and spiritual growth. This book should be required reading for every student in gerontology and should be a resource for even the most seasoned professional. Kate de Medeiros, PhD Associate Director, Center for Aging Studie...
The Hidden Among the Hidden
by Research Scientist Helen K Black, Adjunct Assistant Professor John T Groce, and Founding Member Charles E Harmon
Aging is a gift that we receive with life—and in New Aging, the architect Matthias Hollwich outlines smart, simple ideas to help us experience it that way. New Aging invites us to take everything we associate with aging—the loss of freedom and vitality, the cold and sterile nursing homes, the boredom—and throw it out the window. As an architect, Matthias Hollwich is devoted to finding ways in which we can shape our living spaces and communities to make aging a graceful and fulfilling aspect of...
Altruism in Later Life (Sage Library of Social Research, #196)
by Elizabeth Midlarsky and Dr Eva Kahana
A new generation is evolving together through the passage of eldership. In Audacious Aging, we collect their voices, full of wisdom, fierceness, compassion and gentleness. They are the graceful and eloquent transformative agents our communities and our planet are now seeking. This book brings together voices from medicine, psychology, business, government, the media, and entertainment, to articulate a brilliant new vision of the possibilities of the second half of life. Some are in their ninetie...
Short-listed for the 2002 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction So you grow up as a member of the baby boom. You're well-brought up, well-educated, and your parents have great expectations. And, yet, somehow, you just don't feel you belong. Along the way, you find the right wrong boyfriends: the poet-husband, and bane of your mother's existence, the married Japanese doctor. When love at last arrives, and the realization that it's just not in your nature to hold down a nine-to-five, stick-...
Aarp: America's Largest Interest Group and Its Impact (American Interest Group Politics)
by Christine L. Day
Age and Change (Involving Older People S.)
by Tony Carter and Peter Beresford
Die totale Institution. Sind Altenheime heute noch totale Institutionen?
by Sebastian Krug