F - Gerontology 1

Oldness: a social construct at odds with reality that constrains how we live after middle age and stifles business thinking on how to best serve a group of consumers, workers, and innovators that is……続きを見る

International bestselling authors of YOU: The Owner's Manual and YOU: On a Diet give you all the tools and know-how to stay young and defy the ageing process. Drawing lively parallels between your b……続きを見る

Dit boek gaat over dementie. Dementie is een ernstige ziekte met ingrijpende gevolgen voor de patiënt en diens familie. Steeds meer mensen krijgen ermee te maken. Op dit moment zijn er in Nederland ……続きを見る

Demographic trends and increasing support costs means that good design for older and disabled people is an economic necessity, as well as a moral imperative. Alan Newell has been described as "a vis……続きを見る

Constructing the Life Course offers a social constructionist perspective on personal experience through time. The text shows the variety of ways people use life course imagery in their everyday live……続きを見る

The experience of men and women in later life varies enormously, not only along lines of gender but also due to ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and race. In this text on gender issues among th……続きを見る

Men Still at Work explores the reasons why many men are continuing to work well beyond the traditional retirement age. In today’s challenging economy, they are the second-fastest growing group of wo……続きを見る

Gain an understanding of the increased role religious congregations now play in providing social support to the elderly Religious congregations and faith-based organizations (FBO) from the Jewish, C……続きを見る

Aging, Work, and Retirement presents the reasons older men and women are staying in the workforce as long as they are able to do soーinformation of immediate value to undergraduate and graduate stud……続きを見る

MAKE YOUR THIRD ACT SPECTACULAR Long life is a divine gift ー here are the tools and teachings to optimize, revitalize and redefine your world.It’s your time to shine! Let go of worry and stress Ac……続きを見る

HIV Endurance: Women’s Journeys from Diagnosis to Aging offers an autoethnographic analysis of the lived experience of disclosing HIV to others, incorporating HIV into one’s identity, challenging HI……続きを見る

This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex……続きを見る

From Betty White to Toni Morrison, we’re surrounded by examples of women working well past the traditional retirement age. In fact, the fastest growing segment of the workforce is women age sixty-fi……続きを見る

This thorough book provides valuable information on guardianship and alternative methods for serving judgment-impaired adults. To date, much of contemporary guardianship policy has been developed by……続きを見る

Gray Love narrates stories about the most common themes – searching for and (perhaps) finding love. Forty-five men and women between ages 60 and 94 from diverse backgrounds talk about dating, starti……続きを見る