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“alexandra raphael”

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  • Aging, Media, and Culture

    by C. Lee Harrington, Anthony R. Bardo, Rebecca G. Adams, Anne L. Balazs, Shyon Baumann, Nathalie Claessens, Kim de Laat, Justine Gunderson, Justin Harmon, Stephen Katz, Barbara L. Marshall, Leni Marshall, Rosa Martey, Kelly Quinn, Alexandra Raphael, Cornel Sandvoss, Christine Scodari, Merril Silverstein, Aagje Swinnen, Denise Bielby, Anne Barrett, Hilde Van den Bulck ...
    The intersections of aging, media, and culture are under-explored given trends in population aging, rapid increases in the mediation of everyday life, and the growing cultural significance of media consumption at the global level. This book brings together an international collection of critical scholars, both well-established and up-and-coming, from the various academic disciplines that share a ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • The time Of women

    by Elena Chizhova ...
    Translated by Simon Patterson ...
    Life is not easy in the Soviet Union at mid-20th century, especially for a factory worker who becomes an unwed mother. But Antonina is lucky to get a room in a communal apartment that she and her little girl share with three old women. Glikeria is the daughter of former serfs. Ariadna comes from a wealthy family and speaks French. Yevdokia is illiterate and bitter. All have lost their families, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Eternity Soup

    Inside the Quest to End Aging

    by Greg Critser ...
    Mix the latest and most rigorous scientific research, irrepressible old-fashioned entrepreneurship, and the ancient human desire to live forever (or at least a lot longer) and the result is today’s exploding multibillion-dollar antiaging industry. Its achievements are so far mostly marginal, but its promises flow with all the allure of a twenty-first-century fountain of youth. In Eternity Soup, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Multigenerational Family Therapy

    by David S Freeman ...
    Multigenerational Family Therapy is a book about honoring and helping families. Rich with personal reflections and anecdotes from the author’s many years as a family therapist, this volume’s major strength lies in its precise definition of the process and content of the therapy itself. As the family is the major resource system available to an individual, this important book provides therapists ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • What's Worth Knowing

    by Wendy Lustbader ...
    Colorful and enlightening vignettes about life by everyday people in their seventies, eighties, and nineties.When social worker Wendy Lustbader was asked to take down the histories of residents in a retirement community, she discovered that "the man with Alzheimer's in room 410" was actually ninety-six-year-old Ole Harlen, a former concert pianist. "The woman who people-watches in the lobby" was ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Helen Meenan, Nicola Rees, Israel Doron ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    People are leading significantly longer lives than previous generations did, and the proportion of older people in the population is growing. Residential care for older people will become increasingly necessary as our society ages and, we will require more of it. At this moment in time, the rights of older people receive attention at international and regional levels, with the United Nations, the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Silvering Screen

    Old Age and Disability in Cinema

    by Sally Chivers ...
    Popular films have always included elderly characters, but until recently, old age only played a supporting role onscreen. Now, as the Baby Boomer population hits retirement, there has been an explosion of films, including Away From Her, The Straight Story, The Barbarian Invasions, and About Schmidt, where aging is a central theme.The first-ever sustained discussion of old age in cinema, The ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Independent for Life

    Homes and Neighborhoods for an Aging America

    Edited by Henry Cisneros, Margaret Dyer-Chamberlain, Jane Hickie ...
    Do you want to age independently in your own home and neighborhood? Staying home, aging in place, is most people's preference, but most American housing and communities are not adapted to the needs of older people. And with the fastest population growth among people over 65, finding solutions for successful aging is important not only for individual families, but for our whole society. In ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Aging, Society, and the Life Course

    by Leslie A. Morgan, PhD, Suzanne R. Kunkel, PhD ...
    Doody's Score: 91, 4 Stars"[This] book's unfading preoccupation with social context, social processes, and social structures distinguishes itself and greatly contributes to the discourse in gerontology."--The GerontologistThis is a comprehensive textbook for both undergraduate and graduate level courses, detailing the impact of societal forces on the aging process. The book focuses on the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film

    Plus Ultra Pluralism

    by Matthew J. Marr ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    The Politics of Age and Disability in Contemporary Spanish Film examines the onscreen construction of adolescent, elderly, and disabled subjects in Spanish cinema from 1992 to the present. Applying a dual lens of film analysis and theory drawn from the allied fields of youth, age, and disability studies, this study is set both within and against a conversation on cultural diversity—with respect to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Family Support and Family Caregiving across Disabilities

    Edited by Patricia Conway, George Singer, David Biegel ...
    Family members provide the majority of care for individuals with disabilities in the United States. Recognition is growing that family caregiving deserves and may require societal support, and evidence-based practices have been established for reducing stress associated with caregiving. Despite the substantial research literature on family support that has developed, researchers, advocates and ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Growing Old in Egypt

    The Supply and Demand of Care for Older Persons

    by Thomas Boggatz ...
    A new study of Egypt's resources for elder care, and an exploration of the cultural and social attitudes that impact this ever-increasing need in modern society The Egyptian society is aging. Families have to find solutions for care-dependent older persons, while at the same time, social changes threaten the traditional system of family care. The society has to adapt to this previously unknown ... Read more

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