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Empowering Older People: An International Approach
by Daniel Thursz  Publisher Comments Empowerment is an essential ingredient to achieving self-respect and purpose. The empowerment individual is able to make informed choices, exercise influence, take advantage of good services and generally contribute to society in a meaningful way. Yet...
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The Practical Guide to Aging: What Everyone Needs to Know
by Christine K. Cassel Publisher Comments "A compact reference, filled with down-to-earth help for aging baby boomers planning ahead for their own retirement years or for their elderly parents who are already there." —Publishers Weekly "Informative, comprehensive, and clearly written, this...
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Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective
by Sara Munson Deats Publisher Comments Viewing artistic works through the lens of both contemporary gerontological theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine literary treatments, cinematic depictions, and artistic portraits of aging from Shakespeare to Hemingway...
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Aging in Place: The Role of Housing & Social Supports
by Leon A. Pastalan Publisher Comments In this highly practical volume, the contributing authors explore some of the dimensions associated with aging in place. There are increasing numbers of older Americans who are faced with fundamental changes in their economic circumstances, health, and...
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Achieving a Productive Aging Society
by Scott A. Bass Publisher Comments Many older people, indeed the majority, have many years of relatively good health after the usual retirement age. Contrary to widely accepted stereotypes, evidence indicates that those who wish to use their skills and abilities for productive...
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Preparing for an Aging World: The Case for Cross-National Research
by National Research Co Publisher Comments Aging is a process that encompasses virtually all aspects of life. Because the speed of population aging is accelerating, and because the data needed to study the aging process are complex and expensive to obtain, it is imperative that countries...
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Aging and Everyday Life (Blackwell Readers in Sociology)
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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From Elder to Ancestor: Old Age, Death and Inheritance in Modern Korea
by David Prendergast Publisher Comments This insightful account of the treatment and provision for an ageing population in South Korea is based on intensive fieldwork in the county of Puan in the southwest and adds considerably to the literature on what is happening in the fusion between older...
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Aging and Old Age
by Richard A. Posner Publisher Comments Aging and Old Age offers fresh insight into a wide range of social and political issues relating to the elderly, such as health care, crime, social security, and discrimination. From their dread of death to the extraordinary law-abidingness of the old...
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Cross-Cultural Comm. and Aging CL (Telecommunications)
by Hana Noor Al-deen Publisher Comments This volume focuses on older Americans in various communicative contexts within the framework of their cultures. This book is designed as a reader or supplementary text for college students in communication, gerontology, anthropology and sociology....
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Housing Decisions in Later Life
by Roger Clough Publisher Comments This book examines the processes by which older people make housing decisions and the impact such decisions have on the construction of their lives. Evidence is included from a major three-year research study, where older people told stories of their...
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The Practical Guide to Aging: What Everyone Needs to Know
by Christine K Cassel Publisher Comments "A compact reference, filled with down-to-earth help for aging baby boomers planning ahead for their own retirement years or for their elderly parents who are already there." —Publishers Weekly "Informative, comprehensive, and clearly written, this...
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From the Inside Looking Out: Competing Ideas about Growing Old
by Jeanette A. Auger Publisher Comments Perspectives from the elderly on the aging experience beyond what gerontology covers are collected in this study of the subjective experiences of older persons. Focus groups and questionnaires are among the research methods used to gather information...
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Issues in Global Aging
by Roberto L. Patarca-montero Publisher Comments Gain a new perspective on the international implications of our aging population This comprehensive book examines a broad array of international concerns in gerontology. Issues in Global Aging addresses the implications of the rapid growth in elderly...
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The Sociology of Aging: A Social Problems Perspective
by Duane A. Matcha Publisher Comments B>" Using a sociological perspective, book book examines how aging is asocial construct, rather than a specific chronological age or set of conditions. KEYTOPICS: " Covers all facets of aging, and how aging is a consequence of various socialstructural...
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Take Charge!: The Complete Guide to Senior Living in New York City
by John Vinton Publisher Comments For people over the age of sixty, New York City is a cluttered attic -- a mess of valuables that cannot be ignored, but that for the most part remains buried in jargon, agencies, regulations, and eligibility forms. New York City is, after all, a place...
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The Cultural Context of Aging: Worldwide Perspectives Second Edition
by Jay Sokolovsky Publisher Comments This volume uses the concept of culture to explore the parameters of aging and being old in a worldwide context, thus providing a true cross-cultural and qualitative approach to social gerontology. Containing both specific case studies and broader...
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Reinventing Care: Assisted Living in New York City
by David Barton Smith Publisher Comments The recent growth of assisted living facilities and programs has shaken the foundations of the system of long-term care for the elderly in the United States. Fueled by consumer frustrations with the available options, notably nursing homes, the assisted...
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Images of Ageing: Cultural Representations of Later Life
by Mike Featherstone Publisher Comments We all have a finite life span. We are born, we get old and we die. Given the universality of the aging process, it is remarkable that there is almost a complete absence of study of culture and self-image of the middle aged and old. "Images of Aging...
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Being an Older Woman CL (Lea's Communication Series)
by Isabella Paoletti Publisher Comments falls into women's studies, aging studies, as well as everyday communication markets....
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