Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Cultural Constructions of Health and Life Course Identity
While in Darkness There Is Light: Idealism and Tragedy on an Australian Commune
by Louella Bryant
"Aging as a Social Process: Canadian Perspectives" is a synthesis and interpretation of social science research and census data concerning individual and population aging. Throughout, the emphasis is on identifying, describing, and explaining patterns, processes, and current issues associated with individual population aging, rather than on describing programs or providing prescriptions to assist older persons. This approach enables students and practitioners to acquire basic knowledge about old...
Elder Care Journey (SUNY series in New Political Science)
by Laura Katz Olson
Soutien Social Et H bergement Des A n s En Perte d''autonomie (Omn.Univ.Europ.)
by Truchon-M
This unique book represents the first multi-disciplinary examination of ageing, covering everything from basic cell biology, to social participation in later life, to the representations of old age in the arts and literature. A comprehensive introductory text about the latest scientific evidence on ageing, the book draws on the pioneering New Dynamics of Ageing Programme, the UK's largest research programme in ageing. This programme brought together leading academics from across the arts and hu...
A New Type of Housing for Active Older People
A Place to Grow Old: the Meaning of Environment in Old Age
by Stephen M. Golant
The Outlook for Incomes in Retirement: Social Trends and Attitudes
by Ruth Hancock, Claire Jarvis, and Ganka Mueller
Medicare Matters (California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public, #14)
by Christine Cassel
Savvy, comprehensive, and authoritative, this book, written by a physician with more than thirty years' experience caring for elderly patients, assesses the current state and the future prospects of Medicare, perhaps the most influential health care program of our time. Christine K. Cassel draws upon the latest developments in science and medicine in a sweeping analysis of Medicare's social, demographic, institutional, political, and policy contexts. Writing in accessible language, using case st...
To what degree does culture influence our concepts of age and aging? In our own culture, chronology is crucial to perceptions of the aging process. Our expectations for a twenty-year-old, for example, are different from those we have for a sixty-year-old. So entrenched are our ideas about aging that the notion of measuring age in ways other than chronology may be startling. In this unique ethnographical study of the people of the Kel Ewey confederation of Tuareg, Rasmussen explores age and agin...
Jimmy Carter, Tillie Olsen, Desmond Tutu and 100 others invite readers in their 50s, 60s, and beyond to grown inwardly and participate more fully in life. In this refreshing new vision of aging, Bianchi offers the varied experiences of others to inspire readers, offering practical wisdom for personal enrichment. Bianchi is the author of Aging as a Spiritual Journey.
Facilitating Spiritual Reminiscence for People with Dementia
by Elizabeth MacKinlay and Corinne Trevitt
Spiritual reminiscence is a way of communicating that acknowledges the person as a spiritual being and seeks to engage the person in a more meaningful and personal way. This practical guide teaches carers how to facilitate engaging and stimulating spiritual reminiscence sessions with older people, and particularly with people with dementia. After reading the guide, carers will understand the many and varied benefits of spiritual reminiscence, and will have developed the skills, confidence and co...
Hearing Loss
Millions of Americans experience some degree of hearing loss. The Social Security Administration (SSA) operates programs that provide cash disability benefits to people with permanent impairments like hearing loss, if they can show that their impairments meet stringent SSA criteria and their earnings are below an SSA threshold. The National Research Council convened an expert committee at the request of the SSA to study the issues related to disability determination for people with hearing loss....
Measuring Racial Discrimination
Many racial and ethnic groups in the United States, including blacks, Hispanics, Asians, American Indians, and others, have historically faced severe discrimination?pervasive and open denial of civil, social, political, educational, and economic opportunities. Today, large differences among racial and ethnic groups continue to exist in employment, income and wealth, housing, education, criminal justice, health, and other areas. While many factors may contribute to such differences, their size an...