Age groups: the elderly books

Of the 15,000 nursing homes in the US, how many are places you’d want to visit, much less live in? Now that people...  Read More >>

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If you work with older adults who are developmentally disabled and are seeking ways to incorporate exercise, arts...  Read More >>

In Encore Adulthood, Phyllis Moen presents the realities of the ""encore"" life stage - the years between traditional...  Read More >>

Between 1870 and 1940, life expectancy in the United States skyrocketed while the percentage of senior citizens...  Read More >>

New Tricks for Old Dogs is a gentle, but hilarious spoof of self-help literature especially as it applies to more...  Read More >>

Mary Anne Miceli's fifth poetry book, ""Poetry: Aging Redefined"", reflects on many aspects of change through Life...  Read More >>

In this age of lunchtime lifts, wrinkle-erasing injections, furrow fillers, and lip plumpers, there's no question...  Read More >>

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 >>

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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 >>