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  • Intergenerational Relationships

    Conversations on Practice and Research Across Cultures

    by Sally M Newman, Elizabeth Larkin, Dov Friedlander, Richard Goff ...
    Understand how multigenerational family relationships can benefit all generations!Intergenerational Relationships: Conversations on Practice and Research Across Cultures focuses on how family and community relationships are affected by pressing social problems. Respected international authorities reveal how cultures from Africa, Asia, the US, and Europe value connections among people of different ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Facing Age

    Women Growing Older in Anti-Aging Culture

    by Laura Hurd Clarke ...
    Series series Diversity and Aging
    The first book in the new series Diversity and Aging, Laura Hurd Clarke's Facing Age examines the relationship between aging and women in a culture obsessed with youthfulness. From weight gain, to wrinkles, to sagging skin, to gray hair, the book explores older women's complex and often contradictory feelings about their bodies and the physical realities of growing older. Although the women in the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Understanding Aging and Diversity

    Theories and Concepts

    by Patricia Kolb ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The demographic phenomena of increased life expectancy, increasing global population of older adults, and a larger number of older people as a proportion of the total population in nations throughout the world will affect our lives and the life of each person we know. The changes will result in challenges and benefits for societies and people of all ages. These events need to be understood, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The End Game

    How Inequality Shapes Our Final Years

    by Corey M. Abramson ...
    Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award, Section on Aging and the Life Course, American Sociological AssociationSenior citizens from all walks of life face a gauntlet of physical, psychological, and social hurdles. But do the disadvantages some people accumulate over the course of their lives make their final years especially difficult? Or does the quality of life among poor and affluent ... Read more

    $19.69 USD

  • Nursing Home Administration, Sixth Edition

    by James E. Allen, PhD, MSPH, NHA, IP ...
    Named a 2013 Doody's Essential Purchase!The sixth edition of Nursing Home Administration contains essential information to prepare an individual for licensure and employment as a nursing home administrator. This book addresses all regulatory pieces of information to provide readers with an overview of the entire process of managing a nursing facility. This edition has been updated to reflect the ... Read more

    $101.69 USD

  • Social Services for Senior Gay Men and Lesbians

    by Jean K Quam ...
    Social Services for Senior Gay Men and Lesbians is an important new reference that provides those in the helping professions with practical information on how to work with the older gay and lesbian population. Although older gays and lesbians are the same in many ways as their heterosexual counterparts, they have an extra “layer” of concerns that are unique to their sexual orientation, including ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Aging in Hong Kong

    A Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Jean Woo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    With the longest life expectancy for men and the second longest for women, Hong Kong typifies our planet’s aging population. The daily lives of its older adults closely match the advantages and disadvantages experienced by urban elders in other developed countries. For these reasons, Hong Kong’s elderly serve as a salient guide to older people’s social, psychological, and healthcare needs—concerns ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging, Third Edition

    Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives

    by Heidi Igarashi, PhD, Michael R. Levenson, PhD, Diane Gilmer, PhD, Carolyn M. Aldwin ...
    Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives, Third Edition shows the continuity and advancements in our understanding of human life-span development… It offers a solid foundation for exploring the art and science of successful aging.- Robert M. Kaplan, Stanford University ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Handbook of Theories of Aging

    Edited by Richard Settersten Jr, PhD, Vern L. Bengtson ...
    This state-of-the-art handbook will keep researchers and practitioners in gerontology abreast of the newest theories and models of aging. With virtually all new contributors and content, this edition contains 35 chapters by the most highly respected luminaries in the field. It addresses theories and concepts built on cumulative knowledge in four disciplinary areas- biology, psychology, social ... Read more

    $101.69 USD

  • Continuing Care Retirement Communities

    Political, Social, and Financial Issues

    by Ian Morrison, Susana Frisch, Ruth Bennett, Barry Gurland ...
    Here is the first detailed study of the economic, social, and administrative implications for the establishment of continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs). Leaders in the field of optional living arrangements for the elderly examine models of continuing care retirement communities throughout the United States. A wide range of sometimes conflicting views are vigorously discussed--by ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Exercise Programming for Older Adults

    by Janie Clark ...
    The exercise programming guidelines provided in this book focus on functional fitness training and safety and demonstrate how physical activities supervised by activities personnel can strongly benefit participants’quality of life. Exercise Programming for Older Adults guarantees that exercise programming attains a balance between the three major physical components--aerobic, strength, and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Age-Structured Population Dynamics in Demography and Epidemiology

    by Hisashi Inaba ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is the first one in which basic demographic models are rigorously formulated by using modern age-structured population dynamics, extended to study real-world population problems. Age structure is a crucial factor in understanding population phenomena, and the essential ideas in demography and epidemiology cannot be understood without mathematical formulation; therefore, this book gives ... Read more

    $98.09 USD