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The authors, each experts in their own field, approach this issue from their backgrounds in the social sciences... Read More >>
The 398 tables, graphs, and charts in this handbook focus on this growing segment of America's population. Census... Read More >>
Age Concern always seeks to be at the forefront in raising issues of importance as part of our continuing fight... Read More >>
Bringing critical theory to bear on questions of gerontology, Maugans corrects gerontology's traditional leanings.... Read More >>
Old age is a part of the lifecycle about which there are numerous myths and stereotypes. Older people are perceived... Read More >>
Although attitudes toward the aged and their care are inherent in any society, gerontology itself is a relatively... Read More >>
The most important contribution to the history of aging in America in more than a decade. A major revisionary interpretation... Read More >>
The increasing need for trained and knowledgeable service providers to work with the aging has been well documented... Read More >>
This work explains how older adults get all their everyday information; it also debunks stereotypes of the older... Read More >>
States that in developed countries since 1950, death rates among octogenarians, nonagenarians, and even centenarians... Read More >>
This book brings together key scholars and practitioners from a range of fields in order to advance epidemiological... Read More >>
As the United States and the rest of the world face the unprecedented challenge of aging populations, this volume... Read More >>
This book builds bridges between the wider age-conscious culture within which people live their lives and the world... Read More >>
By highlighting the commonalities across a range of disciplines, this volume provides a unique and broad-based perspective... Read More >>
In this interdisciplinary text, Lewis R Aiken examines the elements that influence people in the later stages of... Read More >>
In an attempt to understand the meaning of ageing and the treatment of the aged in different cultures, seven anthropologists... Read More >>
Along with national data, this book uses two detailed questionnaires which were administered to older Americans... Read More >>