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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Former president Jimmy Carter reflects on aging, blending memoir, anecdote, political savvy, and practical advice to truly illuminate the rich promises of growing older.“As we've grown older, the results have been surprisingly good,” writes former president Jimmy Carter in this wise, deeply personal meditation on the new experiences that come to us with age. President ... Read more

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  • Facing Age

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    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

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  • Long-Term Care in an Aging Society

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    This comprehensive graduate textbook focuses on the full spectrum of long-term care settings ranging from family and community based care through supportive housing options to a variety of institutional long-term care alternatives. Integrating theory and practice, the book features the perspectives of diverse fields regarding current long-term care options and new directions for the future. ... Read more

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  • Geriatric Psychiatry Review and Exam Preparation Guide

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    by Dallas Seitz, Evan Lilly, Mark Rapoport, Andrew Wiens ...
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  • Reforms in Long-Term Care Policies in Europe

    Investigating Institutional Change and Social Impacts

    Edited by Costanzo Ranci, Emmanuele Pavolini ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Over the last two decades, many changes have happened to the social welfare policies of various industrial countries. Citizens have seen their pensions, unemployment benefits, and general healthcare policies shrink as “belt tightening” measures are enforced. But in contrast, long-term care has seen a general growth in public financing, an expansion of beneficiaries, and, more generally, an attempt ... Read more

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  • Qualitative Gerontology

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    by Graham D. Rowles, PhD ...
    The authors provide a contemporary perspective on the status of qualitative research in gerontology. The second edition examines recent trends in the application of qualitative methodologies and the emergence of new qualitative techniques such as focus groups, studies of personal histories, and the use of photography. Chapters include discussions of critical and feminist perspectives, practice ... Read more

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  • Old, Female, and Rural

    by B Jan Mcculloch ...
    In reading Old, Female, and Rural, you’ll discover just that--the reality concerning the daily living situations of the nation’s older female populations in rural places. This scholarly collection will help you and others dispel the romantic frontier myths of the stoic, tenacious, and independent rural woman. Instead, you’ll find real direction for change in the statistics that truly reflect the ... Read more

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  • A Guide for Nursing Home Social Workers, Second Edition

    by Elise Beaulieu, PhD, MSW, LICSW ...
    ìBeaulieuís decades of social work practice illuminate every chapter, her years of networking with colleagues in Massachusetts and nationwide enhance every paragraph, and nuggets of insight earned through successfully establishing meaningful relationships with residents and families are reflected in every word. She knows her stuff and through this book shares it with others who are committed to ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work

    by Parin Dossa, Cati Coe, Neda Deneva, Yanqiu Rachel Zhou, Kristin Elizabeth Yarris, Erin L. Raffety, Mushira Mohsin Khan, Karen Kobayashi, Loretta Baldassar0, Delores V. Mullings1 ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin ... Read more

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