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This book shares insights from the Healthy Ageing Challenge, bringing research, business, policy and practice together to create age-friendly hom……続きを見る
The purpose of this book is to explore practical information and insights from a group of Canadian centenarians to assist health care professionals and researchers who administer care to the oldest ……続きを見る
Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking a……続きを見る
Building on the work of the previous volumes in the Sex and Intimacy in Later Life series, this book explores how resexualisation may take place in later life.
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著者:Zhe Yan
出版社: Springer Nature Switzerland
発売日: 2025年08月29日
This book gives voice to an indispensable yet often overlooked group of care workers in China’s eldercare industry. Drawing on rich, first-hand accounts from frontline care workers and interwoven wi……続きを見る
Many parents have demonstrated a desire to parent skillfully and artfully. They read the latest child development and parenting books, configure their schedules to accommodate the social and educati……続きを見る
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This book provides new insights into the challenges facing older people in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It draws upon novel qu……続きを見る
This book proposes a way to radically renew medicine by extending to medicine the concepts of evolutionary biology. The book considers diseases not as unpredictable harmful events but as logical con……続きを見る
Ageing is an activity we are familiar with from an early age. In our younger years upcoming birthdays are anticipated with an excitement that somewhat diminishes as the years progress. As we grow ol……続きを見る
Ageing is an activity we are familiar with from an early age. In our younger years upcoming birthdays are anticipated with an excitement that somewhat diminishes as the years progress. As we grow ol……続きを見る
China is aging at an unprecedented rate. Improvements in life expectancy and the consequences of the decades-old family planning policy have led to a rapid increase in the elderly population. Accord……続きを見る
In der Gerontologie wird die Notwendigkeit hochwertiger Interventionen samt Prävention mit dem Erreichen des Renteneintritts der Babyboomer-Generation, dem stetigen Anstieg der Lebenserwartung und d……続きを見る
著者:Yang Wang
出版社: Springer Nature Singapore
発売日: 2024年07月18日
This book introduces part of the advances of the aging research conducted by Dr. Yang Wang and his collaborators since 2022. It covers several topics related to older adults, including their psychol……続きを見る
Literature on sex, intimacy and sexuality in later life has been heavily influenced by perspectives from more affluent regions, perpetuating the belief that the West is more sexually progressive and……続きを見る
"A fascinating attempt to marry personal experience with academic analysis to help us all reconceive of one option for later-life living." ー The Huffington Post
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This book offers global evidence about the increasing longevity, its consequences and its potential for societal benefits. Based on statistics, academic literature, policy initiatives and numerous c……続きを見る
Focusing on contemporary ideas about how aged care is provided, this book poses the question: How can people who are aged and frail live out the final phase of their lives with dignity? In seeking a……続きを見る
著者:Gary Alan Fine
出版社: University of Chicago Press
発売日: 2023年01月23日
A deeply researched ethnographic portrait of progressive senior activists in Chicago who demonstrate how a tiny public wields collective power to advocate for broad social change.
If you've ever bee……続きを見る
Media representations of ageing play a role in stereotype formation and even reinforce them. Encountering these stereotypes can negatively impact the self-esteem, health status, physical wellbeing a……続きを見る
What can you remember of your childhood? This was the question put to a number of ‘seniors’ asked to start from as far back as they could get, and go as far as the onset of adolescence. Their answer……続きを見る
This book is a study of nostalgia, belonging and community which provides a new theoretical framework for understanding retirement migration. It is the first account of retirement migration that foc……続きを見る
University-Linked Retirement Communities focuses on the special attributes of a retirement community designed as an integral part of a university. It discusses the theoretical and practical aspects ……続きを見る
"A lyrical and understanding chronicler of people who somehow become displaced within their own lives…Mr. Lindsay-Abaire has shown a special affinity for female characters suddenly forced to re-eval……続きを見る
Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domes……続きを見る
What risks and insecurities do older people face in a time of both increased longevity and widening inequality?
This edited collection develops an exciting new approach to understanding the changing……続きを見る
著者:Bryan Green
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2017年09月08日
Although attitudes toward the aged and their care are inherent in any society, gerontology itself is a relatively recent field of study and practice. Gerontology and the Construction of Old Age appl……続きを見る
Creating Spaces for an Ageing Society considers the existing social science literature on shared neighbourhood spaces through the perspective of an ageing population. It asks the question; how can w……続きを見る
Understanding how creative interventions can help develop social connectivity and resilience for older people is vital in developing a holistic cross-sector approach towards ageing well.
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This exciting collection presents an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the unprecedented phenomenon of increasing numbers of grandparents worldwide, co-existing and interacting for longer periods of ……続きを見る
Roughly 40 percent of the female population in the United States is in those middle years when perimenopausal symptoms have already taken hold, or they are in the throes of menopause. Another 15 per……続きを見る