This volume presents an intimate and compassionate portrait of elderly black and white women who speak, in their own voices, of the domestic and social abuses that led to their financial and emotional impoverishment, and of the transcendent effect of their relationship with God. Drawn from extensive qualitative interviews over a four-year period, the stories reveal women not impoverished by poverty, but amazingly resilient and resourceful in confronting adversity.
Double Jeopardy (Garland Studies on the Elderly in America)
by Mary Anne P Salmon
The Elderly and Old Age Support in Rural China
by Professor Fang Cai and John Giles
Handbook for Teaching Introductory Psychology
This comprehensive volume is an essential resource for instructors of beginning courses in psychology. Reflecting the wisdom and creativity of many teachers of introductory psychology who contributed their ideas to the journal Teaching of Psychology, the articles discuss a variety of issues and approaches as well as provide a large number of suggestions for classroom and extra-classroom activities and demonstrations.
Evidence-Based Interventions for Community Dwelling Older Adults
A critical milestone in the evolution of evidence-based medicine Evidence-Based Interventions for Community Dwelling Older Adults presents an overview of significant evidence-based programs that can improve the health of seniors living in community-based settings. The book examines research conducted on a variety of health-related issues, including depression, care management, falls prevention, physical activity, and medications management. It also looks at research models that were translated...
So Much for So Few (Institute of Human Ageing occasional papers)
by Laura Middleton
Gerontology in Theological Education
Gerontology in Theological Education: Local Program Development provides a source book for administrators and faculty in theological schools who are concerned about the increasing number of older persons in congregations and communities. Theoretical, theological, and practical chapters offer guidance to those interested in adventuring into aging for the first time or in revising present commitments.
This book presents a comprehensive analysis of one of the most pressing challenges facing Japan today: population decline and ageing. It argues that social ageing is a phenomenon that follows in the wake of industrialization, urbanization and social modernization, bringing about changes in values, institutions, social structures, economic activity, technology and culture, and posing many challenges for the countries affected. Focusing on the experience of Japan, the author explores: how Japan h...
Lebensqualitat Im Wohnquartier
by Elisabeth Heite, Dietmar Koster, Harald Russler, and Janina Stiel
Many developed nations face the challenge of accommodating a growing, ageing population and creating appropriate forms of housing suitable for older people. Written by an architect, this practice-led ethnography of retirement housing offers new perspectives on environmental gerontology. Through stories and visual vignettes, it presents a range of stakeholders involved in the design, construction, management and habitation of third-age housing in the UK, to highlight the importance of design deci...
Aging: Lifestyles, Work, and Money
by Elizabeth Vierck and Kris Hodges
In What Does It Mean to Grow Old? essayists come to grips as best they can with the phenomenon of an America that is about to become the Old Country. They have been drawn from every relevant discipline-gerontology, social medicine, politics, health, anthropology, ethics, law-and asked to speak their mind. Most of them write extremely well [and their] sharply individual voices are heard.
Future of Retirement Symposium Proceedings
Old Timers and Alzheimer's (Contemporary Ethnographic Studies, Vol 1)
by Jaber F. Gubrium
Assessing Knowledge of Retirement Behavior
by Eric Alan Hanushek and Nancy L Maritato
Senior Cohousing (Senior Cohousing Handbook: A Community Approach to Independent)
by Charles Durrett
Senior cohousing is an entirely new way for seniors to house themselves with dignity, independence, safety, mutual concern and fun.
Most of us today can expect to live into our seventies in reasonably good health. (In fact, the fastest growing segment of the population is the group eighty-five and older.) Yet our culture offers few convincing ways to help us find purpose in our later years. The ancient and medieval vision of aging as a mysterious part of the eternal order of things has given way to the secular, scientific, and individualistic outlook of modernity. No longer seen as a way station along life's spiritual journe...