Gerontology category: 668 books
Residential Care Services for the Elderly
Business Guide for Home-Based Eldercare
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
As the elderly population continues to increase, the need for suitable housing will continue to rise as well. This handbook is designed to help individuals and families determine the feasibility of starting a small home business providing residential home services for one or more elderly persons....
Leisureville
Adventures in a World Without Children
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
This revealing profile “disappears down the rabbit hole [into] the largest gated retirement community in the world” and what it discovers is “fascinating” (The New York Times).
When his next-door neighbors pick up and move from New England to an age-restricted “active adult” development...
by Christine L. Day
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
AARP is one of Washington's most influential interest groups, but just who does it represent? To some, it represents the narrow special interests of older Americans who already consume more than their share of government benefits. To others, its advocacy encompasses everyone, including those with...
Digital Welfare for the Third Age
Health and social care informatics for older people
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
This book is about the ways digital technology can contribute to the welfare of older people. The Internet, mobile phones and other technologies have changed how we live and work. Such technologies also shape how services for older people are organised in ways that potentially place carers and older...
The Age of Dignity
Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
One of Time’s 100 most influential people “shines a new light on the need for a holistic approach to caregiving in America . . . Timely and hopeful” (Maria Shriver).
In The Age of Dignity, thought leader and activist Ai-jen Poo offers a wake-up call about the statistical reality that...
by Laura Carstensen
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
The twentieth century bequeathed us a fabulous gift: thirty more years of life on average. Supersized life spans are going to radically alter society, and present an unprecedented opportunity to change our approach not only to old age but to all of life's stages. The ramifications are just beginning...
Did You Just Call Me Old Lady?
A Ninety-Year-Old Tells Why Aging Is Positive
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Did You Just Call Me Old Lady? is an upbeat look at aging and the impacts of Canada’s increasingly aged population through the eyes of a ninety-year-old woman. Far from seeing older citizens as a burden and a strain on our public health care system, Lillian Zimmerman gracefully, and often humourously,...
Aging
Concepts and Controversies
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Presenting current research in an innovative text-reader format, Aging: Concepts and Controversies, Ninth Edition encourages students to become involved and take an informed stand on the major aging issues we face as a society. Not simply a summary of research literature, Harry R. Moody and Jennifer...
Age Matters
Re-Aligning Feminist Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men. Similarly, we know more about how gendered power...
Social Insurance and Social Justice
Social Security, Medicare and the Campaign Against Entitlements
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2009
"[W]e must tell the story of how social insurance programs have assured basic economic and health security for millions of AmericansÖ.This book is a must-read for anyone who cares about these goals."
-From the Foreword by Barbara Kennelly
President and CEO,
National Committee to Preserve...
The Leadership Illusion
The Importance of Context and Connections
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
This book is about the "leadership illusion"; the habit of writers, researchers and leaders, when considering causes of success or failure, to focus mainly on the individual and often the context but rarely both. This book argues that context and individual are inextricably linked and we first must make sense of the context in which leaders operate.
by Judith Davenport
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2017
This book was written specifically for baby boomers who are now faced with caring for their parent in their home, either by choice or by financial circumstances.Detailed step-by-step guide to help the novice caregiver take control of the medical, legal, emotional, mental situations that will be encountered.Detailed, factual, honest day-to-day usable information that every caregiver can use.
Dementia Care with Black and Latino Families
A Social Work Problem-Solving Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2011
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"The authors have created a book that comfortably combines substantial research findings with readable, practical guidelines for assessment and intervention in the real-world practice of social work. This authoritatively researched, well-written volume...
Selling the Fountain of Youth
How the Anti-Aging Industry Made a Disease Out of Getting Old-And Made Billions
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
The beauty industry—which once revolved around creams and powders, subtle agents to enhance beauty—has become the anti-aging industry, overrun with steroids, human growth hormone injections, and “bio-identical” hormones—all promoted as “cures” for getting old. Acclaimed BusinessWeek...