Care of the elderly books

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Empowering Older People: An International Approach

Empowering Older People: An International Approach

Author: Daniel Thursz ,  Charlotte Nusberg
ISBN: 9780865692589
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Empowerment is vital to older people's quality of life and to the health of any society, and an international perspective...  Read More >>

Making Gray Gold: Narratives of Nursing Home Care

Making Gray Gold: Narratives of Nursing Home Care

Author: Timothy Diamond ,  Catherine R. Stimpson
ISBN: 9780226144740
Format: Paperback
$54.95

This report on the work of nurses and other caregivers in a nursing home is set in the context of wider political,...  Read More >>

Encyclopedia of Home Care for the Elderly

Encyclopedia of Home Care for the Elderly

Author: Jennifer Boondas ,  Ada Romaine-Davis
ISBN: 9780313285325
Format: Hardback
$120.00

This encyclopaedia covers all the major aspects of home health care for the elderly in the USA today. The articles...  Read More >>

Quality Health Care for the Elderly: A Manual for Instructors of Nurses and Other Health Workers

Quality Health Care for the Elderly: A Manual for Instructors...

Author: Who Regional Office for the Western Pacific ,  Who Regional Office for the Western Pacific
ISBN: 9789290611363
Format: Paperback
$69.70

A manual providing a basic training course for student nurses and other health workers in the quality health care...  Read More >>

The Abuse of Older People: A Training Manual for Detection and Prevention

The Abuse of Older People: A Training Manual for Detection...

Author: Jacki Pritchard ,  Eric Sainsbury
ISBN: 9781853023057
Format: Paperback
$62.99

The second edition of this has been enlarged and completely updated. Based on extensive research and practical experience,...  Read More >>

The Promise of Paradise: Recreational and Retirement Communities in the United States since 1950

The Promise of Paradise: Recreational and Retirement...

Author: Hubert B. Stroud
ISBN: 9780801867583
Format: Paperback
$64.99

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Counseling Older Persons: An Annotated Bibliography

Counseling Older Persons: An Annotated Bibliography...

Author: Jane Myers ,  Valerie L. Schweibert
ISBN: 9780313292774
Format: Hardback
$60.00

Experts have made a state-of-the-art survey of sources that are important in counseling older persons, an increasingly...  Read More >>

Long Term Care: An Annotated Bibliography

Long Term Care: An Annotated Bibliography

Author: Theodore H. Koff ,  Kristine M. Bursac
ISBN: 9780313285837
Format: Hardback
$60.00

Following a brief introduction, the bibliography is arranged in topical chapters dealing with the history of long...  Read More >>

Alcoholism and Aging: An Annotated Bibliography and Review

Alcoholism and Aging: An Annotated Bibliography and...

Author: Nancy Osgood ,  Iris Parham
ISBN: 9780313283987
Format: Hardback
$100.00

Experts in gerontology, clinical psychology, and geriatric medicine provide an analytical survey and abstracts of...  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 >>

Employment of the Elderly: An Annotated Bibliography

Employment of the Elderly: An Annotated Bibliography...

Author: John Rife
ISBN: 9780313291913
Format: Hardback
$60.00

This annotated bibliography surveys the significant research from the last 20 years about the legal, medical, psychological,...  Read More >>

Handbook on Ethnicity, Aging, and Mental Health

Handbook on Ethnicity, Aging, and Mental Health

Author: Deborah Padgett
ISBN: 9780313282041
Format: Hardback
$114.00

This reference assesses the empirical research and conceptual frameworks for understanding the mental health needs...  Read More >>

Time to Go: Three Plays on Death and Dying with Commentary on End-of-Life Issues

Time to Go: Three Plays on Death and Dying with Commentary...

Author: Anne Hunsaker Hawkins ,  James O. Ballard
ISBN: 9780812215199
Format: Paperback
$39.95

This unusual book presents three prize-winning one-act plays on the hard choices that patients, their families,...  Read More >>

The Private World of The Hermitage: Lifestyles of the Rich and Old in an Elite Retirement Home

The Private World of The Hermitage: Lifestyles of the...

Author: Mary M. Free
ISBN: 9780897894142
Format: Hardback
$110.00

Mary Moore Free presents a new perspective on the literature of aging with her study of the rich, old, cognitively...  Read More >>

The Law and Elderly People

The Law and Elderly People

Author: Aled Griffiths ,  Gwyneth Roberts
ISBN: 9780415113243
Format: Paperback
$103.00

Essential guide to the legal issues affecting the elderly. Covers employment and income; accommodation and housing;...  Read More >>

The Law and Elderly People

The Law and Elderly People

Author: Aled Griffiths ,  Gwyneth Roberts
ISBN: 9780415120449
Format: Hardback
$399.00

Essential guide to the legal issues affecting the elderly. Covers employment and income; accommodation and housing;...  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 >>

Services to the Aging and Aged: Public Policies and Programs

Services to the Aging and Aged: Public Policies and...

Author: Paul K. Kim ,  Paul K. H. Kim
ISBN: 9780815306115
Format: Hardback
$336.00

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