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  • 100 Plus

    How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and

    by Sonia Arrison ...
    Humanity is on the cusp of an exciting longevity revolution. The first person to live to 150 years has probably already been born.What will your life look like when you live to be over 100? Will you be healthy? Will your marriage need a sunset clause? How long will you have to work? Will you finish one career at sixty-five only to go back to school to learn a new one? And then, will you be happily ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Aging Together

    Dementia, Friendship, and Flourishing Communities

    by Susan H. McFadden, John T. McFadden ...
    Never in human history have there been so many people entering old age—roughly one-third of whom will experience some form of neurodegeneration as they age. This seismic demographic shift will force us all to rethink how we live and deal with our aging population.Susan H. McFadden and John T. McFadden propose a radical reconstruction of our societal understanding of old age. Rather than ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Live Better, Live Longer

    by Philip Selby ...
    The first edition of this book, entitled "A Guide to Successful Aging" was published in English, French, German, Spanish, and Japanese, and tens of thousands of copies were sold. It has now been completely revised.People today live longer than ever before. This increasing longevity is of vital importance – a unique opportunity to plan constructively for one's later years. This book can help you to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Can't Remember What I Forgot

    The Good News from the Front Lines of Memory Research

    by Sue Halpern ...
    An essential behind-the-scenes foray into the world of cutting-edge memory research that unveils findings about memory loss only now available to general readers.When Sue Halpern decided to emulate the first modern scientist of memory, Hermann Ebbinghaus, who experimented on himself, she had no idea that after a day of radioactive testing, her brain would become so “hot” that leaving through the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • You and Your Aging Parent

    A Family Guide to Emotional, Social, Health, and Financial Problems

    by Barbara Silverstone, Helen Kandel Hyman ...
    First published in 1976, You and Your Aging Parent is a classic--the first book to shed light on the challenging relationship between adult children and their aging parents, illuminating the emotional, health, and financial difficulties that elderly parents and their children face during the senior years. Marking the 30th anniversary of this highly popular book, the new and revised edition ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • 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

    $89.09 USD

  • 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

    $24.99 USD

  • Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Social Gerontology

    Edited by Tannistha Samanta ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume intends to re-establish social gerontology as a discipline that has pragmatic links to policy and practice. Collectively, the chapters enrich public debates about the moral, cultural and economic questions surrounding aging, thereby ameliorating the “problems” associated with aging societies. This volume is uniquely cross-cultural, theory-driven and cross-disciplinary. It fills a gap ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Rural Aging in 21st Century America

    by J. V. Oh Edmund ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Population aging is one of the most important trends of the 20th and 21st centuries, and it is occurring worldwide, especially in more developed countries such as the United States. Population aging is more rapid in rural than urban areas of the U.S. In 2010, 15 ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ambient Assisted Living

    6. AAL-Kongress 2013 Berlin, Germany, January 22. - 23. , 2013

    Edited by Reiner Wichert, Helmut Klausing ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    In this book, leading authors in the field discuss development of Ambient Assisted Living. The contributions have been chosen and invited at the 6th AAL congress, Berlin. It presents new technological developments which support the autonomy and independence of individuals with special needs. As the technological innovation raises also social issues, the book addresses micro and macro economical ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Health and Cognition in Old Age

    From Biomedical and Life Course Factors to Policy and Practice

    Edited by Anja K. Leist, Jenni Kulmala, Fredrica Nyqvist ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In recent years, the aim of research on aging has shifted from prolonging life to fostering healthy and cognitively robust old age. In order to improve the quality of life of older people, we need to better understand cognitive aging as well as bodily aging.Health and Cognition in Old Age assembles the cream of research across varied medical, mental health, and social disciplines, and demonstrates ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Ageing Immune System and Health

    Edited by Valquiria Bueno, Janet M. Lord, Thomas A. Jackson ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The present book intends to provide an update on immunosenescence and how deficiencies in the immune system contribute to a higher susceptibility to infections, decline in organ function, reduced vaccination responses, age-related disease and the ageing process itself, negatively affecting longevity. Our focus is on the main changes in immune system cells and their products occurring during the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD