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This book provides the latest research and design-based recommendations for how to design and implement a technology training program for older adults in Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC……続きを見る

This thirty-ninth volume of Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics focuses on men’s health and aging. Cutting-edge chapters discuss the different complex factors that can lead to advancing our ……続きを見る

In his latest and perhaps most adventuresome book, Robert Kastenbaum offers a fresh view of the quest for perpetual youth. The focus is on the "pretty monster" that Oscar Wilde created a century ago……続きを見る

To date there has not been a clear look at the home care experience of older African Americans. "Surviving Dependence: Voices of African American Elders" attempts to meet the need for recording and ……続きを見る

This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rat……続きを見る

Today, more than 200,000 men and women over age fifty are languishing in prisons around the United States. It is projected that by 2030, one-third of all incarcerated individuals will be older adult……続きを見る

Note to Readers: Publisher does not guarantee quality or access to any included digital components if book is purchased through a third-party seller. Assisted Living Administration and Management: E……続きを見る

The "Need for Theory" speaks to the burgeoning need for critical thinking in social gerontology. The editors have brought together some of the foremost contributors to theoretical advances in the fi……続きを見る

The aim of this volume is to revitalise the debate about the concepts of time implicit in the study of aging. The many problems related to aging and the aged put an enormous pressure on the gerontol……続きを見る

Assesses the needs and lives of the first generation of people with developmental disabilities who have survived into later life. Describes the challenges facing practitioners in gerontology and dev……続きを見る

While Being Mortal (Atul Gawande) helped us understand disease and death, and Successful Aging (Daniel J. Levitin) showed us older years can be a time of joy and resilience, Happily Ever Older revea……続きを見る

A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award A Princeton professor-turned-artist recounts her late-in-life career change in this “feisty and delig……続きを見る

Growing Old in a New China: Transitions in Elder Care is an accessible exploration of changing care arrangements in China. Combining anthropological theory, ethnographic vignettes, and cultural and ……続きを見る

Winner of the 2023 Edited Book Award from the International Research Society for Children's Literature Contributions by Aneesh Barai, Clémentine Beauvais, Justyna Deszcz-Tryhubczak, Terri Doughty, A……続きを見る

當我們怕老，我們怕的是什麼？ 這個年代，是否沒有人能安心變老 **　　為何人們總將老人視為「他者」，而非未來的自己** **　　老化如何從一種自然的過程，變成一個需要解決的社會問題** 　　在凡事講求政治正確的……続きを見る

This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that new residents and their families enter with, their relationships with fellow residents and formal caregi……続きを見る

Mainstream gerontological scholarship has taken little heed of people ageing with disability, and they have also been largely overlooked by both disability and ageing policies and service systems. T……続きを見る

«Senso dell'umorismo, prosa energica e capacità di vedere e sperimentare in modo positivo il trascorrere degli anni, rendono questo libro un aiuto prezioso, un fattore di cambiamento della mentalità……続きを見る

È confermato: la vecchiaia non esiste più. Gli over sessantacinque oggi fanno yoga, pilates e jogging, si iscrivono a corsi di ceramica e tango, viaggiano per il mondo, navigano in rete, chattano su……続きを見る

Teach your students essential skills in conducting research, building collaborative partnerships, and working with clients and caregivers! This important book provides health care educators with inf……続きを見る

Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers’ relationships wi……続きを見る

How well do the places where we live support the wellbeing of older adults? The Canadian population is growing older and is reshaping the nation’s economic, social and cultural future. However, the ……続きを見る

Jedes zweite Kind, das heute in unseren Breitengraden geboren wird, hat die Chance, 100 Jahre alt zu werden, haben WissenschaftlerInnen berechnet. Was bedeutet das für unsere Gesellschaft? Wie muss ……続きを見る

Written by renowned surgeon and expert on the art of aging, Dr. M.E. Hecht, with her friend Whoopi Goldberg lending her unique point of view, Two Old Broads is laugh out loud funny and?tells it like……続きを見る

In this moving and controversial Quarterly Essay, doctor and writer Karen Hitchcock investigates the treatment of the elderly and dying through some unforgettable cases. With honesty and deep experi……続きを見る

Wachsen statt welken: Ein schonungslos offener Erfahrungsbericht übers Älterwerden Fuckin' fifty – damit hat nun wirklich keiner so plötzlich gerechnet. Eben war noch Abiprüfung, und auf einmal hat ……続きを見る

Latino Elders and the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Challenges for Culturally Competent Research and Practice will help social workers, researchers, and organizations identify and analyze ways of……続きを見る

»Ich weiß, wie wenig selbstverständlich es ist, dass das Gespräch zwischen den Generationen am Lebensende glückt.«. Was wissen wir wirklich über das Leben unserer Eltern, der Kriegskinder? Wann ist ……続きを見る

Senior citizens (frequently referred to by the more inclusive term “older adults”) are one of the largest and fastest growing demographics in the world. Public libraries have a duty to serve these i……続きを見る

What's it like to grow older? More than 80 American women from across the nation offer thoughtful insights on many aspects of advancing in years--the ups as well as some downs, joys along with sorro……続きを見る