The collection of essays in this volume explores the significance of old age for Jews and Christians as well as Greeks and Romans in antiquity. Of interest for students and scholars of religion, as well as scholars in classical studies and ancient h...Daugiau...
First published in 1990, focusing on the enigma of the ageing process, this title considers the problems associated with the life course in a variety of cultures. By examining the cultural construction of ageing and extending to the life course as a...Daugiau...
This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity...Daugiau...
Life and Death considers ageing and mortality from a psychoanalytic perspective and from the point of view of the individual, the couple, and the family. The book grounds a psychoanalytic approach to understanding later life as a key point of develo...Daugiau...
The first book fully devoted to the impact of climate change the elderly, focusing on issues of critical importance: aging in place; health and age in a warming world; responsibility for the climate crisis; climate-conscious consumption; planning fo...Daugiau...
Given this variation in the context of global ageing as a backdrop, this edited book focuses on three overarching themes that are among the most critical to understand if societies are to age successfully in the twenty-first century and beyond: Heal...Daugiau...
Considering the situation in Japan and Germany, this book analyses the needs of host countries from a demographic standpoint, the desires of migrants in terms of education, training, and labour market participation, and policies and actions on the p...Daugiau...
This book provides a systematic study of the challenges of aging in China and of the measures being taken, planned and still needed to cope with the challenges....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Jul-2024, Leidėjas: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003450214)
This book examines the biological, psychological, and sociocultural aspects of challenges related to ageing in India. It does so by widely referring to research works beyond the disciplinary boundary of sociology to help develop a lucid yet critical...Daugiau...
What would it mean to substitute care for economics as the central concern of politics? This anthology invites analysis, reflections and speculations on how contemporary artists and creative practitioners engage with, interpret, and enact care in pr...Daugiau...
First published in 1989, this title explores the lives of people who have lost sight in late life as a result of age-related visual disorders. As life-expectancy in western society has increased, the number of people who fall into this group has gro...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1966, this was the first full-length study by a sociologist of isolation in old age. Although the majority of old people were in no sense a problem group at the time, a substantial minority of the elderly were alone in one or...Daugiau...
In the 1980s the need for long-term care for elderly people in Western societies was quite obvious and countries had responded in a number of different ways. First published in 1985, the central theme of this book is to explore these ways and to pro...Daugiau...
In the 1960s, planning the development of services for the elderly was a subject of importance in Britain. First published in 1969, this book describes how a sample of local authorities were planning their services, how they estimated the need for s...Daugiau...
First published in 1982, this book defines sheltered housing, traces its development in Western society and analyses its success under variations in Great Britain. The analysis focuses on those aspects of the sheltered housing programme that had rel...Daugiau...
First published in 1984, the title looks at the field of elderly care and domiciliary work from the perspective of social services. Starting with early influences that helped shape the development of Domiciliary Services, the author goes on to look...Daugiau...
Quality Learning for Positive Ageing explores the views of older adult learners to understand the factors that contribute to quality in later-life learning and how these relate to wellbeing, positive ageing and gaining protection against cognitive d...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 13-Feb-2024, Leidėjas: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780429352560)
This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society. It explores its representations and the anxieties, fears and vulnerabilities associated with ageing....Daugiau...
This book explores how neoliberalism and austerity have affected older people living within a deindustrialised town, utilising a Foucauldian approach and an ethnographic methodology....Daugiau...
Drawing on an international pool of scholars, this cutting-edge Handbook surveys the micro, macro and institutional aspects of the economics of ageing. It addresses a broad range of themes, including health economics, labour economics, pensions and...Daugiau...
First published in 1957, The Family Life of Old People opens with the question: Are old people isolated from their families? Thereafter, the author describes the results of intensive interviews with people of pensionable age in Bethnal Green in East...Daugiau...
This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs, and wishes in diverse surroundings in the...Daugiau...
This book provides comprehensive coverage on aging and safety aspects including fire safety, food safety, and occupational safety in a single volume. It will an ideal text for professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human fa...Daugiau...
Advancing the notion of connected autonomy, and highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research in the development of this novel concept, this volume explores the possibility of maintaining the freedom to make ones own decisions in later l...Daugiau...
The ageing population is a global societal issue. Policymakers, planners, and the public, third and private sectors must rethink the delivery of built environment and services to meet the needs of a changing demographic. This is the first book to sy...Daugiau...
This book engages with the concept of age-friendly environments, adopting multi-perspectivity to demonstrate how age-friendly environments can contribute to shifting how we think, feel and act toward issues of age and ageing and operate as a vehicle...Daugiau...
This book addresses policies related to ageing, traditional Asian approaches to ageing, an integrated medical system approaches to ageing, ageing in place, and community empowerment....Daugiau...
A Handbook of Geriatric Neuropsychology brings together experts in the field to integrate the knowledge and skills needed to understand and treat older adults who are experiencing problems with memory and other thinking skills, providing a strong fo...Daugiau...
Mobile Citizenship addresses the question of how mobility reconfigures citizenship, offering a novel perspective through the case of lifestyle émigrés, in particular retirees, moving south, from Germany to Turkey....Daugiau...
This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies. As part of the increasing visibility of dementia in soc...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1970, the field experiment described in this book was the first British attempt to assess the effectiveness of social work. A team led by a social worker assessed the social and medical conditions of 300 aged applicants to a...Daugiau...
First published in 1984, this study of the everyday lives of elderly people, and the sources of help and care available to them in the community at the time, made a special contribution by showing how they can and do make creative adaptations to the...Daugiau...
Later Life views older age as a valuable stage of life, argues for the centrality of self-making to its quality and explores, with the help of literary examples, factors both supporting and hindering the quality of later-life experiences....Daugiau...
Explores the varied activities of older women - its not all babysitting and bingo - and examines the barriers which can prevent older women from continuing to enjoy a fulfilling lifestyle....Daugiau...
Whilst the vast majority of recent research on identity and ethnicity amongst South Asians in Britain has focused upon younger people, this book deals with Bengali elders, the first generation of migrants from Sylhet, in Bangladesh....Daugiau...
Touching on work and voluntarism, transportation, housing, the environment, social participation, the delivery of health and community services, the Handbook of Rural Aging addresses the full breadth and scope of factors impacting the lives of rural...Daugiau...
This book discusses the contribution of ageing population as a productive and creative force towards urban design particularly in high-density urban contexts, as observed in a collection of empirical cases found in rapidly ageing Asian cities....Daugiau...
This is the first monograph to examine sexual violence against people aged 60 and over in the UK; it situates the research findings in the context of feminist criminology and gerontology, and sets an agenda for future research, policy and practice....Daugiau...
This volume explores issues of aging in contexts that are no longer limited to the framework of a single nation-state. It gathers an international range of contributors to examine the micro level of everyday life, biographical projects and identitie...Daugiau...
Drawing on theoretical and empirical insights gained from sexuality studies, social gerontology, and the sociology of later life, this book offers an in-depth understanding of the diverse and complex experiences of older LGB adults, thus providing a...Daugiau...
This book explores whether the right to review of continued imprisonment of whole life prisoners under Article 3 of the ECHR could be applicable to other categories. In particular, it examines the situation for prisoners whose life expectancy due to...Daugiau...
This book is a guide for designers of consumer electronics grounded in research. The design of displays for older adults provides an application of psychological science. The book translates basic psychological research on aging, human factors, and...Daugiau...
This book explores intentions and moral beliefs concerning elderly care alongside practical care arrangements, presenting a concept of care which recognizes how various factors shape the experience of care, including: national, regional, and local c...Daugiau...
Old age is changing, and so are the ways we study it. This exciting new publication brings new aspects of later life into view, such as consumption, embodiment, identity; and draws in new methodologies visual, literary, spatial. Based on specially...Daugiau...
In Understanding Aging and Diversity, Patricia Kolb presents important sociological theories and concepts for understanding experiences of older people and their families in a rapidly changing world. She explores concepts from phenomenology, critica...Daugiau...
Throughout the worlds hinterland regions, people are growing old in resource-dependent communities that were neither originally designed nor presently equipped to support an ageing population. This book provides cutting edge theoretical and empirica...Daugiau...
The expert contributions in this volume address the array of issues associated with the study of aging, old age and elderly care in contexts of migration. The collection explores these issues in three sections: elderly care regimes and migration reg...Daugiau...
As our global demographic shifts towards an increasingly aging population, we have an opportunity to transform how we experience and think about getting older and embrace the diversity and contribution that this population can bring to society. The...Daugiau...
This book focuses on the impact of transnational migration on home in older age, providing new understanding of older peoples lives by examining how their experiences of home are being transformed by transnational migration. Contributors explore inn...Daugiau...
