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Aging Graciously
by Roger W. Axford  Publisher Comments This is a witty collection of essays on aging by "Arizona Senior World" columnist Axford. A renowned scholar, humanist, public servant, and civic leader, his latest work is a timely vision of what the future can bring if one is fully prepared....
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Mini Kits #6: The Birthday Fun Box
by Ariel Publisher Comments This gift will make every birthday an uncommon experience, with trick candles, a bottle of blow bubbles and a booklet of fun birthday traditions, activities and games. Consumable....
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Designing a Better Day: Guidelines for Adult and Dementia Day Services Centers
by Keith Diaz Moore Publisher Comments As the U.S. population ages, adult day services have become an integral component in the continuum of care for elderly people. Providing a variety of social and medical services for cognitively or physically impaired elderly people who otherwise might...
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Gerontological Social Work Supervision, Second Edition (in Contract)
by Ann And Frances Coyle Brennan Burack-weiss Book News Annotation Burack-Weiss (Columbia U. School of Social Work), works with a firm that consults, manages, and trains in the field of aging, and Brennan (Fordham U.) works in social services at a home in New York. This guide details the supervision of master's level...
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Social Gerontology - With Research Navigator Guide (7TH 05 - Old Edition)
by Nancy Hooyman Publisher Comments This best-selling, multidisciplinary, text on the experience of growing old presents positive images of aging while considering the many factors that contribute to how older individuals experience life. <P> Up-to-date and expanded, "Social...
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Aging in America
by James H. Schulz Publisher Comments With the impending retirement of some 76 million Baby Boomers, understanding the economic, political, and social issues related to the aging population is paramount. If the doom-and-gloomers have their way, the elderly will be put out to pasture, with...
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Old Age: Constructions and Deconstructions (Themes in the Social Sciences)
by Haim Hazan Publisher Comments Focuses on the reality of the experience of old age....
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Critical Perspectives on Ageing Societies
by Book News Annotation Social gerontologists and contributors from other medical and social sciences, helping professions, and the humanities look at historical, theoretical, and policy contexts of aging in the industrial world; participatory approaches to ways of knowing...
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Aging & Later Life
by Julia Johnson Publisher Comments Aging and Later Life examines the range of issues raised by aging in contemporary society. The collection is unique in combining academic and practitioner analyses with personal accounts. By taking a multidisciplinary approach that includes literary...
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And Not One Bird Stopped Singing: Coping with Transition and Loss in Aging
by Doris Moreland Jones Publisher Comments And Not One Bird Stopped Singing guides us through grieving all the events that take meaning from our lives so we can learn to live again. Doris Moreland Jones draws from her clinical pastoral background and own personal experience with grief....
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Aging and Everyday Life (00 Edition)
by Jaber F. Gubrium Publisher Comments "Aging and Everyday Life" presents a balanced and realistic view of the aging experience. The research in this book reveals that much, if not most, of the triumphs and trials experienced in later years are not unlike those confronted at other points in...
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International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine #10: Aging: Culture, Health and Social Change
by David C. Thomasma Publisher Comments Culture, Health, and Social Change is the first of three volumes on Aging conceived for the International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Leading scholars from a range of disciplines contest some of the predominant paradigms on aging, and...
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To Hell with Getting Old: A Primer for Living at Any Age
by Don Mcdaniel Publisher Comments Do you really want to get OLD? If, so, then forget about this book. If you don't want to get OLD, then this book is perfect for you. Author Dr. Don McDaniel draws on decades of experience in physiology, cardiac rehab, consultant to hospitals, education...
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Aged by Culture
by Margaret M Gullette Publisher Comments Americans enjoy longer lives and better health, yet we are becoming increasingly obsessed with trying to stay young. What drives the fear of turning 30, the boom in anti-aging products, the wars between generations? What men and women of all ages have in...
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You Know You're Getting Older When
by Lois L Kaufman Publisher Comments Hardcover Personals measure 4 1/2" x 6 1/2" wide (Landscape), have laminated dust jackets, extend 64 pages, are illustrated in 4-color throughout, and retail for $6.99. Over-the-hill humor/cartoons....
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Ageing in India: Socio-Economic and Health Dimensions
by Moneer Alam Publisher Comments The socioeconomic, health, and public-policy aspects of aging in India are presented in this study that draws on empirical research to assess the country’s preparedness. This analysis argues that many of the fundamental issues that need to be...
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The Age Wave: How the Most Important Trend of Our Time Can Change Your Future
by Kenneth Dyctwald Publisher Comments Based on 15 years of research by a world-renowned expert on aging, this is the first book to explore the profound effects our aging population, and the changing demographics that go with it, will have on every aspect of society, and on our personal plans...
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Ageing Without Children
by Philip Kreager Book News Annotation Rapid fertility declines and improved longevity are resulting in a shift in the overall balance of population towards older ages in many parts of the world; one of the subgroups of this population are the elderly without children. Ten international...
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Coping with Aging
by Richard S. Lazarus Publisher Comments Coping with Aging is the final project of the late Richard S. Lazarus, the man whose landmark book Emotion and Adaptation put the study of emotion in play in the field of psychology. In this volume, Lazarus examines the experience of aging from the...
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Caregiving Contexts: Cultural, Familial, and Societal Implications
by Maximiliane E. Szinovacz Publisher Comments This volume represents a major step forward in the literature by placing its focus squarely on the caregiving context, its dimensions and how it shapes the process and outcomes of family care. The chapters locate care within the family, rather than a...
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