Age groups: adults books

Impaired Bodies, Gendered Lives: Everyday Realities of Disabled Women explores the intersections of gender and disability....  Read More >>

Combining expert knowledge and first-hand experience, a noted elder care researcher confronts the long-distance...  Read More >>

The Journey That Matters is a how-to and how-not-to manual for caregivers. It is the poignant and sometimes disturbing...  Read More >>

Madelyn Kubin was a 70-year-old Kansas farm wife. She appeared to be fragile because of her thinning white hair,...  Read More >>

The last decade has presented major challenges for many Americans economic security. The most severe recession since...  Read More >>

This controversial book argues that concepts such as 'successful' and 'active' ageing are potentially dangerous...  Read More >>

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News of Alzheimer's disease is constantly in the headlines. Every day we hear heart-wrenching stories of people...  Read More >>

This book is a reworking of the ten books I have written on criminal reformation, stripping out the voluminous references...  Read More >>

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We know both the supply and the use of long-term care differs between countries; but their interdependency is not...  Read More >>

Japan is aging rapidly, and its government has been groping with the implications of this profound social change....  Read More >>

As the much publicized ""graying of America"" progresses, political groups that lobby for the elderly have achieved...  Read More >>

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In her eighth decade, and feeling compelled to comment on what ""she got out of it all,"" Nancy Parsons offers this...  Read More >>

When a life-threatening illness makes it necessary for Virginia Simpson's mother, Ruth, to come live with her, Simpson...  Read More >>

"Learning to Listen for Grace Among Our Elders This is the 25th anniversary edition of ""What Do You Say?"" Its...  Read More >>

Do you adamantly refuse invitations to be a speaker? Does just the thought of addressing a group leave you pale...  Read More >>

This book focuses on the impact of transnational migration on home in older age, providing new understanding of...  Read More >>

In this book, Dr. Haroutunian, physician director at Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, provides listeners with the...  Read More >>

In this book, Dr. Haroutunian, physician director at Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, provides listeners with the...  Read More >>

Too often, end-of-life care in the U.S. is fragmented, uncoordinated, costly, and unsustainable. But it doesn't...  Read More >>