The Human Rights Act
Ageing Research in Europe (Economic Studies (New York))
Gale Encyclopedia of Senior Health (Gale Encyclopedia of Senior Health)
Die alternde Gesellschaft - Chancen und Herausforderungen
by Simon Busch
Das Essential behandelt in leicht verstandlicher, komprimierter Weise die Grundlagen altersbedingter Zellveranderungen, die unter Umstanden zur Neurodegeneration fuhren koennen. Der Autor erlautert, wie der Alterungsprozess und die Neurodegeneration durch oxidativen Stress und dabei entstehende Schaden beeinflusst werden. Unter diesen Schaden nimmt die Bildung von Proteinaggregaten, die hier besonders ausfuhrlich beschrieben werden, eine Schlusselstellung ein. Daruber hinaus werden einige Aspek...
In the coming years, understanding senior citizens will be more important than it's ever been. Are you ready? Aging, The Individual, And Society introduces you to gerontology in a compassionate way that helps you understand them and know how to work with them. It's balanced between academic and practical discussions, and packed with study tools. That way, you'll ace the class and be ready for the future!
Source Book on Ageing
This book explores the issue of crime and its relationship to gender and ageing. This is a forgotten area of analysis in disciplines of criminology, gerontology and even in Feminist theorising. This book begins by exploring the relationships between crime, ageing and victimisation. The book then moves to assess the main issues associated with understanding imprisonment for older people. The book focuses its attention on gender and its relationship to mental health and institutional psychiatric c...
Aging Populations, Globalization and the Labor Market
This topical and timely analysis of late career and retirement within nine European societies and the USA examines how social inequality structures have developed in an era of globalization and aging populations. For several decades, many European societies relied on pushing and luring older workers out of employment by using generous early retirement programs in order to relieve national labor markets in times of globalization. However, as this book argues, one of the major challenges facing...
This innovative revision of a respected text skillfully combines evidence-based interviewing skills and cognitive-behavioral intervention change strategies applicable to a wide range of client ages, cultural backgrounds, and problems in living. The book interweaves attention to conceptual and empirical foundations with a practical skills emphasis on real-life factors in contemporary settings with diverse clientele. Long commended for its synthesis of up-to-date professional knowledge with case m...
Das Buch ist Fragen gewidmet, die sich heute in der Sozialgerontologie stellen, wenn es um die Bestimmung ihres wissenschaftlichen Status und um die politische Relevanz ihres Forschens geht. Ihr Gegenstand, das Altern, ist in ungeahntem Maße ein öffentliches Thema geworden, das vielschichtige und widersprüchliche Behandlung erfährt. Eine Mischung aus Idealisierung und Abwertung, aus Zweckoptimismus und Defizitangst durchzieht die vielen Diskussionen und Publikationen über das Altern. Von den Brü...
Filled with examples that reflect the diversity of the world we live in, Erber's accessible, yet science-based book focuses on research and theory that add to our understanding of aging and older adulthood. Erber organizes the book around complementary 'big point-of-view' theories that focus on successful aging and successful adaptation (such as 'selective optimization with compensation') as well as on those that emphasize matching the person's competencies with demands of the environment (such...
Inside Assisted Living
by J. Kevin Eckert, Paula C. Carder, Leslie A. Morgan, Ann Christine Frankowski, and Erin G. Roth
Assisted living is the fastest-growing alternative to skilled nursing care for frail older persons in the United States. The expectations, settings, and missions of these residences are varied, making it difficult for prospective residents and their families to anticipate what it would be like to live in them. This book is a unique portal into the real world of assisted living and the key issues facing consumers, providers, and policy makers. Drawing on in-depth interviews with residents, their...
Running a clinic for seniors requires a lot more than simply providing medical care. In Stories from the Tenth-Floor Clinic, Marianna Crane chases out scam artists and abusive adult children, plans a funeral, signs her own name to social security checks, and butts heads with her staff—two spirited older women who are more well-intentioned than professional—even as she deals with a difficult situation at home, where the tempestuous relationship with her own mother is deteriorating further than ev...
City of Green Benches (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues)
by Maria Vesperi
St. Petersburg, Florida, has become virtually synonymous with retirement and old age. The city of green benches once courted its elderly population; now, however, it seeks to rejuvenate its image, to attract the young through urban revitalization. In this humane and sensitive book, Maria Vesperi, an anthropologist and journalist, looks at the realities of being old and poor in the rapidly changing downtown of St. Petersburg. Vesperi provides a complete and carefully observed picture of the elder...
Elderly issues currently inspire a great deal of research, discussion, and public policy debate. Cox's informative, comprehensive, and sensitive consideration of an especially vulnerable elderly segment--the frail--makes a genuine contribution to the understanding of frailty that must guide support systems and public policy. Issues addressed in this work include not only the consequences of frailty but also its prevention. The forms of support or assistance which some older individuals requir...