Gerontology category: 668 books
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Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
The first graduate text to address health literacy in the aging population
Low health literacy is a critical issue among adults, with over one-third found to have difficulty understanding such basic information as that found on prescription bottles. This is the first graduate textbook to address...
Health Care for the Elderly
Regional Responses for National Policy Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Leading experts in health policy, gerontology, economics, and ethics explore the potential impact of the growing number of elderly on our health care system. They provide valuable information on the continuing debate over national health care policy for the elderly versus a more decentralized.
A Hands-On Approach to Teaching about Aging
32 Activities for the Classroom and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
A one-of-a-kind guide to active, engaging learning strategies for aging studies
Harnessing the proven benefits of active learning strategies, this is the first activity book created for a broad spectrum of courses in aging-related higher education. It features 32 classroom and community-based...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Learn how public policies can help families provide the care their elderly relatives need
Family and Aging Policy examines how public initiatives to assist the elderly in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Denmark, and Sweden can impact families who provide them with long-term care. For...
Aging and Biography
Explorations in Adult Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Personal life narratives can serve as a rich source of new insights into the experience of human aging. In this comp;rehensive volume, an international team of editors and contributors provide effective approaches to using biography to enhance our understanding of adult development. In addition to...
A Journey Called Aging
Challenges and Opportunities in Older Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
A Journey Called Aging presents an insightful exploration of the years between the entry into older adulthood and death. This text examines the significant changes and major landmarks of older persons between 60 and 90. Grounded by a developmental framework based on empirical research, this book presents...
by Joanna Mellor, Joann Ivry
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
s your gerontological social work program as comprehensive-and as well attended-as it could be?
Advancing Gerontological Social Work Education will help you develop courses that effectively prepare social work students and practitioners to work with the ever-increasing older population. It...
The Lotos-Eaters
Aging and Identity in a Yacht Club Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
As the baby boom generation ages, there are few ethnographies that capture the dynamics of aging. This new book is based on years of participant observation in "the Sands," a beautiful ocean community of well-off individuals and couples seeking the easy life. Yet the community members contend...
Gerontological Practice for the Twenty-first Century
A Social Work Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2005
Gerontological Practice for the Twenty-first Century meets the need for state-of-the-art information on practice approaches with older patients that are age-specific and empirically based, blend "micro" and "macro" views, and reflect current themes in the aging and social work...
by Elsbeth Martindale, Scott Cabot Willis
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Here is a one-of-a-kind resource for professionals who prepare and lead group activities for impaired older adults. Filling a crucial gap in the field of clinical gerontology, this invaluable guide provides more than 70 stimulating and therapeutic group activities designed specifically for use with...
Framing Age
Contested Knowledge in Science and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
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....
Self-Neglect in Older Adults
A Global, Evidence-Based Resource for Nurses and Other Healthcare Providers
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
An unequalled compendium of cutting-edge information on self neglect
This authoritative resource in provides nurses and healthcare professionals with a comprehensive overview and analysis of self-neglect in older adults. With an aging global population, self-neglect is emerging as a complex...
Adult Day Care
A Practical Guidebook and Manual
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Intended for long-term care providers, consumers, and gerontology students, this valuable new guidebook and manual encourages the promotion and enhancement of adult day care as an essential link in long-term care. Since the early 1970s, the number of adult day care centers in the United States has...
Grandparenting
Influences on the Dynamics of Family Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
This landmark resource investigates and documents current and predicted trends regarding the experiences of grandparents in the United States and abroad. Edited by two of the foremost scholars and educators on the health and wellbeing of grandparents raising their grandchildren, it reflects the enormous...