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  • Age-Friendly Cities and Communities in International Comparison

    Political Lessons, Scientific Avenues, and Democratic Issues

    Edited by Thibauld Moulaert, Suzanne Garon ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The supportive role of urban spaces in active aging is explored on a world scale in this unique resource, using the WHO’s Age-Friendly Cities and Community model. Case studies from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, and elsewhere demonstrate how the model translates to fit diverse social, political, and economic realities across cultures and continents, ways age-friendly programs promote ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Framing Age

    Contested Knowledge in Science and Politics

    Edited by Iris Loffeier, Benoît Majerus, Thibauld Moulaert ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness
    Ageing populations have gradually become a major concern in many industrialised countries over the past fifty years, drawing the attention of both politics and science. The target of a raft of health and social policies, older people are often identified as a specific, and vulnerable, population. At the same time, ageing has become a specialisation in many disciplines - medicine, sociology, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Ageism and Mistreatment of Older Workers

    Current Reality, Future Solutions

    Edited by Patricia Brownell, James J. Kelly ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book promotes an understanding of ageism, discrimination and mistreatment of older adult workers, incorporating an international human rights perspective. The impact of ageism on the mistreatment of older adult workers has not to date been examined in depth through the lens of international human rights instruments, nor has discrimination against older adults in the workplace been framed as a ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Arts and Culture for Older People in Singapore: An Annotated Bibliography

    by Belinda Yuen, Penny Kong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book combines in a single volume numerous studies concerning the use of arts and culture to enhance quality of life, health and wellbeing among older people, especially in Singapore. The bibliography covers not only research conducted in Singapore (both published and grey literature), but also a global body of work encompassing the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and North America. In addition to ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Local and Global

    The Management of Cities in the Information Age

    by Jordi Borja, Manuel Castells ...
    This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Learning to Be Old

    Gender, Culture, and Aging

    by Margaret Cruikshank ...
    Margaret Cruikshank’s Learning to Be Old examines what it means to grow old in America today. The book questions social myths and fears about aging, sickness, and the other social roles of the elderly, the over-medicalization of many older people, and ageism. In this book, Cruikshank proposes alternatives to the ways aging is usually understood in both popular culture and mainstream gerontology. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Household and Living Arrangement Projections

    The Extended Cohort-Component Method and Applications to the U.S. and China

    by Yi Zeng, Kenneth C. Land, Danan Gu, Zhenglian Wang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents an innovative demographic toolkit known as the ProFamy extended cohort-component method for the projection of household structures and living arrangements with empirical applications to the United States, the largest developed country, and China, the largest developing country. The ProFamy method uses demographic rates as inputs to project detailed distributions of household ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Long-Term Care in an Aging Society

    Theory and Practice

    by Graham D. Rowles, PhD ...
    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

    $89.99 USD

  • A Practical Approach to Planning Law

    by Victor Moore, Michael Purdue ...
    Series series A Practical Approach
    Despite repeated attempts in recent years to simplify the planning system, planning law has continued to be so complex that practitioners and students alike have found it difficult to disentangle the issues and principles involved. The twelfth edition of this popular and accessible book aims to remove the mystery which planning law has for so many people. A Practical Approach to Planning Law ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Housing: Where’s the Plan?

    by Kate Barker ...
    Series series Perspectives
    Housing is a fundamental necessity, and yet it is generally acknowledged that we have a ‘housing crisis’ in the UK. The housing market has worked well for many people (who have enjoyed the steeply rising values of their homes), which is why change, especially new building, is resisted. But for increasing numbers it now works less well, as home ownership is out of reach. Government finds it easier ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Therapeutic Activities With the Impaired Elderly

    Edited by Phyllis M. Foster ...
    This highly practical volume presents valuable insights for all professionals who provide activities for the impaired elderly. It will serve as a helpful resource for both those who work directly with the aged in institutional settings, as well for those who train activities counselors.Therapeutic Activities With the Impaired Elderly addresses a number of pertinent issues and provides useful ... Read more

    $62.99 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