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Aging in Developing Countries
by Ken Tout  Publisher Comments The increasing life expectancy seen in developing countries has coincided with massive migrations due to urbanization, industrialization, and disasters, both natural and man-made, to cause acute physical and psychological suffering for many old people...
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Retired with Husband: Superwoman's New Challenge
by Mary Louise Floyd Publisher Comments Witty, optimistic blueprint for the first-wave boomer Superwoman to ensure a successful second adulthood for both herself and her husband, also nearing retirement. Full of references to the first-wave boomer experience (sixties through today), the book...
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Strengthen Your Mind: Activities for People with Early Memory Loss
by Kristin Einberger Synopsis This collection of activities uses trivia, reminiscence, and sensory stimulation to promote mental capacity and social engagement in older adults with early memory loss....
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Men Who Take Care: Walking the Road of Life as Elders
by Lou Dunn Diekemper Publisher Comments Upon completion of "Women Who Take Care, " Diekemper realized that she was interested in learning about men who are 55 and older. In this book she delves into such areas as contentment with life choices and the definition of what is really meaningful in...
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Who Should Care for the Elderly?: An East-West Value Divide
by William Liu Publisher Comments This book comprises a collection of refereed and edited papers that originated from an invited conference on East-West Values in Elder Care held in Hong Kong in 1996. Organised under Western or Eastern Perspectives, the contributions reflect the belief...
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Search for the Fountain: The Secret to Youthful Aging
by Linda J. Falkner Publisher Comments Interviews with active people aged 80 to 103. They are world travelers, and have seen tremendous changes in the past eighty to one hundred years. They talk about the world as it was, and as they see it today. The seniors...
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Age Through Ethnic Lenses : Caring for the Elderly in a Multicultural Society (01 Edition)
by Laura Katz (ed.) Olson Publisher Comments An ever-more diverse America is getting older, but American policies are not growing with the needs of our ethnic and aging society. Age Through Ethnic Lenses explores the distinct characteristics and unique social, political, economic, and cultural...
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Genes and Aging
by M. S. Kanungo Publisher Comments This book reviews the molecular biology of the gene in relation to aging. The author presents basic information on eukaryotic genes and follows this with details of the changes that occur in their structure and function during aging. He reviews the...
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The Aging Network, 6th Edition: Programs and Services
by Donald E. Gelfand Publisher Comments A must-have reference for practitioners and a comprehensive overview for students of gerontology, social work, and public health, this fully updated edition of a highly successful text offers up-to-date information on the changing health plans available...
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Issues in Aging (06 Edition)
by Mark Novak Publisher Comments "Issues in Aging" presents facts and information about aging today. It covers the issues that most older people and their families will face, and it deals with issues that an aging society will raise for all of us. Whether you are older yourself, have...
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Biology of Human Aging (2ND 95 Edition)
by Alexander P. Spence Publisher Comments Provides a general overview of the aging process and sufficient background on biological aspects....
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Grandmas Gone Wild!
by Michael Tomolonis Publisher Comments They conspire with children. They wear purple hats. They speak their minds and nobody can do a thing about it! They're everywhere and where would we be without them? Grandmas Gone Wild is a hilarious collection of the off-the-wall, over-the-top and...
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Learning to Be Old: Gender, Culture, and Aging: Gender, Culture, and Aging
by Margaret Cruikshank Publisher Comments What does it mean to grow old in America today? Is successful aging our responsibility, and what will happen if we fail to grow old gracefully? Especially for women, the onus on the aging population in the U.S. is growing rather than diminishing. Gender,...
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Biological Aging: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)
by Trygve O. Tollefsbol Publisher Comments Biological Aging: Methods and Protocols investigates the various processes that are affected by the age of an organism. Several new tools for the analysis of biological aging have been introduced recently, and this volume provides methods and protocols...
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Gray dawn :how the coming age wave will transform America--and the world
by Peter Peterson Publisher Comments The major economies of the world are on a collision course toward a huge, as-yet-unseen iceberg: global aging. Increased longevity is a blessing, but it carries with it costs and questions few countries wish to deal with. This looming demographic...
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Annual Review of Gerontology & Geriatrics #27: Biopsychosocial Approaches to Longevity
by Leonard W. Poon Publisher Comments Though exceptional human longevity has captured the imagination for millennia, it has been only in the past fifteen years or so that some of the secrets to very long lives are finally giving way to scientific inquiry. Written by an international group of...
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Husbands and Wives All These Years: From Caring to Caretaking
by Lillian S Hawthrone Publisher Comments Including brief interviews with over 20 couples, a heartfelt look at the realities of aging in long-term marriages (45-60+ years). Resources, Index....
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Sage Focus Editions #173: Interpersonal Communication in Older Adulthood: Interdisciplinary Theory and Research
by Mary Lee Hummert Synopsis "This book is particularly relevant now as the baby-boomer generation is aging and a greater proportion of the world's population is growing older. Interpersonal communication is clearly the most critical process for promoting social integration and...
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Relationships in Old Age: Coping With the Challenge of Transition (Guilford Series on Personal Relationships)
by Robert O. Hansson Publisher Comments This book emphasizes a set of factors often ignored in the literature--personality characteristics and ways of relating that can enable the older adult to become an active agent in shaping his or her own life. Reviewing recent research and theory, the...
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Ageism: Negative & Positive
by Erdman Ballagh Palmore Publisher Comments In this updated edition, Palmore provides a comprehensive review of many different forms of ageism-including the interesting notion of positive ageism, which projects onto the elderly as a group traditional virtues like wisdom and thrift. He discusses...
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