Age groups: the elderly books

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Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life

Images of Aging: Cultural Representations of Later Life...

Author: Mike Featherstone ,  Andrew Wernick
ISBN: 9780415112581
Format: Hardback
$305.00

The contributors in this book discuss images of aging which have come to circulate in the advanced industrial societies...  Read More >>

Other Cultures, Elder Years

Other Cultures, Elder Years

Author: Ellen Rhoads Holmes ,  Lowell D. Holmes
ISBN: 9780803951341
Format: Paperback
$316.00

This fully revised Second Edition of Other Cultures, Elder Years is not only the textbook on the anthropology of...  Read More >>

Preparation for Aging: Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Congress of IAUTA Held in Jyvaskyla, Finland, August 12-14, 1994

Preparation for Aging: Proceedings of the Seventeenth...

Author: Eino Heikkinen ,  J. Kuusinen
ISBN: 9780306450686
Format: Hardback
$491.04

Lifelong Learning and Retirement: Meaning and Late Life Learning (H.R. Moody). The Third Age and the Disappearance...  Read More >>

Health and Health Care Utilization in Later Life

Health and Health Care Utilization in Later Life

Author: Jon Hendricks
ISBN: 9780895031686
Format: Paperback
$183.00

The debate over national health insurance has renewed attention on the health and health care utilization of the...  Read More >>

The Ties of Later Life

The Ties of Later Life

Author: Jon Hendricks
ISBN: 9780895031662
Format: Paperback
$183.00

Helps you recognise the continuity that runs across the generations from grandparents to grandchildren. This work...  Read More >>

Surviving Dependence: Voices of African American Elders

Surviving Dependence: Voices of African American Elders...

Author: Mary Ball ,  Frank Whittington
ISBN: 9780895031259
Format: Hardback
$183.00

Dealing with home care experience of older African Americans, this book attempts to meet the need for recording...  Read More >>

The Gifted Group in Later Maturity

The Gifted Group in Later Maturity

Author: Carole K. Holahan ,  etc.
ISBN: 9780804724074
Format: Hardback
$126.95

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Literature and Gerontology: A Research Guide

Literature and Gerontology: A Research Guide

Author: Richard M. Eastman ,  Robert E. Yahnke
ISBN: 9780313293498
Format: Hardback
$100.00

This bibliography aims to provide gerontologists, health care professionals and the general reader with a source...  Read More >>

Aging Families and Use of Proverbs for Values Enrichment

Aging Families and Use of Proverbs for Values Enrichment...

Author: Vera R Jackson
ISBN: 9781560247258
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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Uprooted in Old Age: Soviet Jews and Their Social Networks in Israel

Uprooted in Old Age: Soviet Jews and Their Social Networks...

Author: Howard Litwin
ISBN: 9780313292804
Format: Hardback
$140.00

This first-hand empirical study of elderly Soviet Jews who immigrated to Israel during the Great Exodus of 1989...  Read More >>

Centenarians: People Over 100: A Triumph of Will and Spirit

Centenarians: People Over 100: A Triumph of Will and...

Author: Lynn Adler
ISBN: 9780929173023
Format: Hardback
$66.00

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Research on Religion and Aging: An Annotated Bibliography

Research on Religion and Aging: An Annotated Bibliography...

Author: Harold G. Koenig ,  Erdman Ballagh Palmore
ISBN: 9780313294273
Format: Hardback
$61.00

This is a guide to recent research about religion and ageing, which focuses on the linkage between religion and...  Read More >>

Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society with ""A Response to My Critics""

Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society with...

Author: Daniel Callahan
ISBN: 9780878405725
Format: Paperback
$116.00

A provocative call to rethink America's values in health care.  Read More >>

Current Perspectives on Aging and the Life Cycle: Delinquency and Disrepute in the Life Course

Current Perspectives on Aging and the Life Cycle: Delinquency...

Author: Zena Smith Blau ,  John Hagen
ISBN: 9781559383677
Format: Hardback
$344.52

This series provides a variety of different discussions on topics within the field of current perspectives on ageing...  Read More >>

Old and Homeless -- Double-Jeopardy: An Overview of Current Practice and Policies

Old and Homeless -- Double-Jeopardy: An Overview of...

Author: Larry Mullins ,  Diane W. Rich
ISBN: 9780865692466
Format: Hardback
$110.00

The growing number of homeless people over age 50 has reached epidemic proportions. It is important to recognize...  Read More >>

Work and Aging: A European Prospective

Work and Aging: A European Prospective

Author: Jan Snel ,  R. Cremer
ISBN: 9780748401659
Format: Paperback
$168.00

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Handbook of Aging and the Family

Handbook of Aging and the Family

Author: Rosemary Blieszner ,  Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford
ISBN: 9780313283956
Format: Hardback
$120.00

No other reference provides such a comprehensive and timely overview of theory and research on family relationships,...  Read More >>

THE ECONOMICS OF AGEING

THE ECONOMICS OF AGEING

Author: John Creedy
ISBN: 9781852788278
Format: Hardback
$729.75

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Vital Involvement in Old Age

Vital Involvement in Old Age

Author: Erik H. Erikson ,  Joan M. Erikson
ISBN: 9780393312164
Format: Paperback
$40.95

Erikson's now-famous concept of the life cycle delineates eight stages of psychological development through which...  Read More >>

Health In Old Age

Health In Old Age

Author: SIDELL
ISBN: 9780335191369
Format: Paperback
$134.51

Addresses questions which existing literature on health and old age has largely ignored. This title explores the...  Read More >>

Ageism

Ageism

Author: Bill Bytheway
ISBN: 9780335191758
Format: Paperback
$126.67

Covers age-conscious culture within which people live their lives and the world of the caring professions. This...  Read More >>

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