Medicine: general issues books

Originally published in 1982, in this book experts describe the geriatric services in Britain at the time, a country...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1986, this title presents papers from the British Society of Gerontology annual conference...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1984, this title covers issues such as: services for the elderly and their effectiveness,...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1988, this book provides a practical approach to working with elderly people with speech...  Read More >>

First published in 1981, this book provides an in-depth study of how old age was experienced in contemporary Australian...  Read More >>

During the 1970s and 1980s prescription and over-the-counter drugs had come to play a major role in the health care...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1989, Aging and Health Care focuses on the most urgent health care problems of older people...  Read More >>

First published in 1985, this book examines some of the positive and innovative work going on in the field of human...  Read More >>

The care of elderly people is a major task facing society. Originally published in 1981, this book considers the...  Read More >>

In 1980 old people comprised over half the clients of Local Authority Social Services Departments and accounted...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, this study examined people over the age of 65 living in New York and London. The people...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1987, this title shows much of the most innovative research and thinking in social gerontology...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1988, the authors looked at the medicines prescribed for, and taken by, a nationally representative...  Read More >>

First published in 1983, the chapters in this title draw attention to the changed circumstances in which ageing...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1966, this was the first full-length study by a sociologist of isolation in old age. Although...  Read More >>

First published in 1982, this book defines sheltered housing, traces its development in Western society and analyses...  Read More >>

By the early 1970s the psychology of age was an important topic. In this book, first published in 1973, the authors...  Read More >>

In the early 1980s, it had only recently been appreciated that what was known of the epidemiology of dementia in...  Read More >>

Visual disability (including blindness) is of major significance among the elderly, and since it is so crucial to...  Read More >>

In the 1980s few studies adopted a positive attitude to ageing and elderly people. First published in 1986, reissued...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1988, the purpose of this book was to introduce the student and practicing physiotherapist...  Read More >>

In this title, first published in 1976, Gore explores some of the problems which face older people in the family...  Read More >>

First published in 1960 and revised in 1964 the blurb for Facing Retirement read: “Mature men and women are not...  Read More >>

First published in 1982, this title presents the results of a study of the experiences and attitudes of over 350...  Read More >>

First published in 1984, the purpose of this book was to provide ideas and suggestions about the usefulness of applied...  Read More >>