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  • Ageing in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Edited by Julia Simonson, Jenna Wünsche, Clemens Tesch-Römer ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This Open Access Book contains reports on the situation of people in the second half of life during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The analyses are based on the German Ageing Survey (DEAS) and they provide insights on four main areas of life: income and work, subjective health and well-being, social support and loneliness as well as societal participation.This book is useful for ... Read more

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  • Aging in Canada

    by Neena L. Chappell, Marcus J. Hollander ...
    Canada, like other countries, is aging. The media has reported on a "grey tsunami," a demographic change reflecting longer life expectancy and the retirement of the so-called baby boomer generation. The numbers and percentages of older adults within our population continue to increase. In 2010, 15.3 percent of Canada's population was over 65; in 2030, it will be 24.1 percent. Many commentators ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Global Lives of German Migrants

    Consequences of International Migration Across the Life Course

    Edited by Marcel Erlinghagen, Andreas Ette, Norbert F. Schneider, Nils Witte ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Based on the German case, this open access book highlights the increasing flows of migration and the internationalisation of individual life courses. It analyses the experiences of migration across four central domains - employment and income, partners and families, health and wellbeing, as well as friends and social participation - which potentially have far-reaching consequences for social ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Marginalized Youth

    Not in Education, Employment, or Training Around the World

    Edited by Mark Levels, Christian Brzinsky-Fay, Craig Holmes, Janine Jongbloed, Hirofumi Taki ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Labour Economics
    This book studies young people who are Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET); a prime concern among policymakers. Moving past common interpretations of NEETs as a homogeneous group, it asks why some youth become NEET, whereas other do not. The authors analyse diverse school-to-work patterns of young NEETs in five typical countries and investigate the role of individual characteristics, ... Read more

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  • Social Networks and Health Inequalities

    A New Perspective for Research

    Edited by Andreas Klärner, Markus Gamper, Sylvia Keim-Klärner, Irene Moor, Holger von der Lippe, Nico Vonneilich ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book applies insights from the network perspective in health research to explain the reproduction of health inequalities. It discusses the extant literature in this field that strongly correlates differences in social status with health behaviours and outcomes, and add to this literature by providing a coherent theoretical explanation for the causes of these health inequalities. ... Read more

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  • A Demographic Perspective on Gender, Family and Health in Europe

    Edited by Gabriele Doblhammer, Jordi Gumà ...
    This open access book examines the triangle between family, gender, and health in Europe from a demographic perspective. It helps to understand patterns and trends in each of the three components separately, as well as their interdependencies. It overcomes the widely observable specialization in demographic research, which usually involves researchers studying either family or fertility processes ... Read more

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  • Disability Management and Workplace Integration

    International Research Findings

    by Henry G. Harder ...
    Disability Management is perceived and understood to be an important approach to reducing the negative impact, for workers and the company, of absence due to illness and accidents, and to assisting those with disabilities to enter or re-enter the workplace. Disability Management has already become established in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Recently European countries have begun to ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Care Technologies for Ageing Societies

    An International Comparison

    by James Wright, Tomoko Wakui, Meryl Lovarini, Kate O'Loughlin, Lindy Clemson, Andreas Hoff, Bill Pottharst, Arlene Astell, Janet Fast ...
    Series series Sustainable Care
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Technology is quickly becoming an integral part of care systems across the world and is frequently cited in policy discourse as pivotal for solving the ‘crisis’ in care and delivering positive outcomes.Exploring the role of technology in Europe, Canada, Australia and Japan, this book examines how technology contributes effectively to ... Read more

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  • Coercive Treatment in Psychiatry

    Clinical, Legal and Ethical Aspects

    Edited by Thomas W. Kallert, Juan E. Mezzich, John Monahan ...
    Coercion is one of the most fascinating and controversial subjects in psychiatry. It is a highly sensitive, and hotly debated topic in which clinical practice, ethics, the law and public policy converge. This book considers coercion within the healing and ethical framework of therapeutic relationships and partnerships at all levels, and addresses the universal problem of how to balance safety ... Read more

    $157.95 USD

  • Well-being, Poverty and Justice from a Child’s Perspective

    3rd World Vision Children Study

    Edited by Sabine Andresen, Susann Fegter, Klaus Hurrelmann, Ulrich Schneekloth ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents evidence that children are the real experts of their lives. 2600 boys and girls in Germany between the ages of 6 of 11 years, with and without a migration background, were interviewed. Next to established topics of family, friends, leisure time and school, the focus of this study was on the topic of justice. Children were asked what justice in their opinion was and whether they ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Social Exclusion in Later Life

    Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives

    Edited by Kieran Walsh, Thomas Scharf, Sofie Van Regenmortel, Anna Wanka ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of ... Read more

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  • An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care

    Perspectives from Australia

    by Susanne Garvis, Matthew Manning ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care explores early childhood education and care in Australia from a variety of perspectives, highlighting the complexity of working within the field and the need for a truly interdisciplinary approach. It argues that only a holistic understanding of each perspective will allow a clear future for early childhood education within ... Read more

    $63.99 USD