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Cover of Critical Issues in Aging Policy
Giving a comprehensive overview of the discipline, this book is designed as a supplementary text for students of social gerontology and ageing policy. Highlighting policy implications, specialists consider issues such as: long term care; ways of measuring well-being; social relationships of the elderly; attitudes to retirement; health and crime.

@ ′the book does a good job in prompting deeper consideration of day-to-day issues about elderly people and points up many unexplored areas worthy of research.......This is a useful book, combining much of general interst for staff working with older people with clear and important messages for its target audience of researchers and policy theorists′ @ GPS 3:2

Cover of Aging and Society
Aging and Society critically reviews significant, contemporary research. The contributors, all experts in the field of gerontology, analyse areas of social and behavioural sciences against the background of demographic changes, which have led to a rise in the aged populations of industrialized societies. As the proportion of elderly members of societies has risen, there has been a corresponding increase in interest in ageing as a subject for research. The book studies the economic roles and status of the elderly population, the differences between bodily and mental changes that occur with age, the place of the community health centre with regard to the welfare of old people, and the political implications that are inevitable with any sharp increase in a section of society.

`...recommended for anthropologists needing a single volume introduction to the modern American enterprise of social gerontology.′ -- Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Vol 17 No 1

Cover of Aging and Retirement

Aging and Retirement

by Neil G. McCluskey and Edgar Borgatta

Published 28 February 1982
′This text is well-organized, readable, and well-documented. It offers many suggestions for research and attempts to provide a concise overview of the rather complex topics of aging and retirement as well as some insight into the future evolution of retirement prospects, planning, and policy. The contents of this text would be especially meaningful for those nurses who deal with older clients in the community setting.′ -- Journal of Gerontological Nursing, Vol 9 No 3, March 1983