Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Top Series in United States

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “waldo c klein”
Skip side bar filters

  • Successful Aging

    Strategies for Healthy Living

    by Martin Bloom, Waldo C. Klein ...
    Series series Prevention in Practice Library
    There is a near-universal folk saying that everyone wishes to live a good long life, but no one wishes for old age. More contemporarily, the rock and roll band, Little Feat, sang, "You know that you're over the hill when your mind's making promises your body can't fill. " This book is about the good long life. It is a book about primary prevention strategies in the aging process; it is not about ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • 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

  • 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

    $89.09 USD

  • The Demography and Epidemiology of Human Health and Aging

    by Jacob S. Siegel, S. Jay Olshansky ...
    With this book, Siegel, an internationally known demographer and gerontologist, has made a unique contribution to the fledgling fields of health demography, and the demography and epidemiology of aging. The book represents a felicitous union of epidemiology, gerontology, and demography, and appears to be the first and only comprehensive text on this subject now available. Drawing on a wide range ... Read more

    $287.09 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

  • Environmental Gerontology in Europe and Latin America

    Policies and Perspectives on Environment and Aging

    Edited by Diego Sánchez-González, Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book looks at the relationships between the physical-social environment and the elderly in Europe and Latin America, from the Environmental Gerontology perspective and through geographical and psychosocial approaches. It addresses the main environmental issues of population ageing, based on an understanding of the complex relationships, adjustments and adaptations between different ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Elderly Care in India

    Societal and State Responses

    Edited by S. Irudaya Rajan, Gayathri Balagopal ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume highlights a range of issues underpinning elder care in India, with particular focus on the challenges that India faces in caring for the elderly. In addition to the very limited state support and near total dependence on the family for long-term social care and economic support, the changing dynamics between generations in the family structure and privatization of health care in ... Read more

    $80.09 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

  • The Effects of Aging and Environment on Vision

    Edited by Donald Armstrong, Michael F. Marmor, J. Mark Ordy ...
    This book derives from a symposium conducted in San Francisco CA, entitled "Environmental Design for Optimum Vision in the Elderly" that was sponsored by the American Aging Association, October 11-12, 1985. Presentations from this symposium comprise the core content of this volume. However, manuscripts have also been accepted from additional authors whose topics and research findings increase the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies

    Active Ageing Index and its Potential

    Edited by Asghar Zaidi, Sarah Harper, Kenneth Howse, Giovanni Lamura, Jolanta Perek-Białas ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides multinational evidence on active and healthy ageing. It generates authoritative new knowledge for mutual learning and policymaking in addressing challenges linked with population ageing. The authors discuss how to achieve better active ageing outcomes through appropriate policies including addressing life course determinants of active and healthy ageing. The chapters are ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Conceptual and Methodological Issues on the Adjustment to Aging

    Perspectives on Aging Well

    by Sofia von Humboldt ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book approaches the concept of adjustment to aging and endeavors to build reader understanding of this construct through a critical review and discussion. Once the reader understands the origins and nature of adjustment to aging, a second innovation encompasses the development of a proposed empirical model of adjustment to aging and the analysis of its components and correlates. Measures to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Collective Spirit of Aging Across Cultures

    Edited by Nancy Giunta, Gaynell M. Simpson, Halaevalu F.Ofahengaue Vakalahi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The collective, inclusive, and intersectional framework used in this book speaks to the significance of understanding aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives, but still as a shared human experience. The underlying message of the book is that although we are unique and different in our aging processes, we are ultimately connected through this physical, mental and spiritual ... Read more

    $89.09 USD