Search results for “[Subject: aging-longevity]”

• Author(s): Michel Poulain | Jolanta Mackowicz • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Mental HealthPositive Ageing and Learning from Centenarians evaluates the mechanisms of positive ageing in a uniquely interdisciplinary...

• Author(s): Simon Biggs • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social WorkThe world is growing older and this is a historically unprecedented phenomenon. Negotiating such change, personally, socially and for governments a...

• Author(s): Jon F. Nussbaum | Justine Coupland • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyThis second edition of the Handbook of Communication and Aging Research captures the ever-changing and expanding domain of a...

• Author(s): Jon Hendricks • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralHow does aging affect interaction between people and their social environment? This book examines that question from various perspectives...

• Author(s): Matilda White Riley | Beth B. Hess | Kathleen Bond • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyOriginally published in 1983, Aging in Society consists of a selection of papers that were prepared by vario...

• Author(s): Angie Williams | Jon F. Nussbaum • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social PsychologyIndividuals of all ages interact with one another, and their interactions have significance throughout their lives. This...

• Author(s): Roy Shephard • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyIn the late 1980s, the relationship between physical activity or exercise and aging was of great interest. The first edition of this book was a ma...

• Author(s): Bernhard Leipold • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Developmental - Lifespan Development Are we in control of our own development in adulthood, or are we shaped by circumstances beyond our control? By adop...

• Author(s): Britt-Marie Öberg • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyResearch into ageing and later life has tended to describe old age in relation to society's problems concerning health and social care. Today...

• Author(s): Britt-Marie Öberg • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyResearch into ageing and later life has tended to describe old age in relation to society's problems concerning health and social care. Today...

• Author(s): Erin J. Campbell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyThe goal of the twelve essays in this volume, contributed by scholars in the fields of history, literature, art history, and medicine, is to e...

• Author(s): Ian Glover | Mohamed Branine • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis title was first published in 2001. This collection of essays on the the subject of ageism in work and employment aros...

• Author(s): Theodore R. Marmor | Philip R. De Jong • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Social SecurityFirst published in 1998. This volume (the second of a twin set grouping articles based on papers pre...

• Author(s): Dorothy Jerrome • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyFirst published in 1983, the chapters in this title draw attention to the changed circumstances in which ageing takes place, at the subjective ...

• Author(s): Robert Troschitz • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyAs utopias question social ills and express human wants and unfulfilled dreams, they offer insights into the problems, desires and ideals of a...

• Author(s): Julia Twigg | Wendy Martin • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyLater years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts. No longer confined to the sphere of social wel...

• Author(s): A. Harry Lesser • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFirst Published in 1999, lesser collects fourteen papers to create a discourse on the practical importance in a society where the propo...

• Author(s): Donna Lind Infeld • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyThis is the sixth volume in the six-volume collection Disciplinary Approaches towards Aging. This set systematically presents the most recogn...

• Author(s): Bridget Garnham • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThrough its themes of subjectivity, surgery, and self-stylization this book critically examines the cultural constraints and incitement...

• Author(s): Ian Glover | Mohamed Branine • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis title was first published in 2001. This collection of essays on the the subject of ageism in work and employment aros...

• Author(s): Abraham Monk • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryFocusing on the need for developing new service delivery models for the aged, Health Care of the Aged examines fiscal, political, and soc...

• Author(s): Matilda White Riley | Joseph D. Matarazzo | Andrew Baum • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Developmental - Adulthood & AgingOriginally published in 1987, this volume, and the working conference that pr...

• Author(s): J. Dianne Garner | Alice A. Young • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryThis book explores what is known about healthy living among older women, emphasizing overcoming illness and adversit...

• Author(s): Marcia G. Ory | Kathleen Bond • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyOriginally published in 1989, Aging and Health Care focuses on the most urgent health care problems of older people at the time a...

• Author(s): Claudine G. Wirths | Richard A. Williams • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Life Stages - Later YearsGrowing old - what is it like? What are the main problems of the aging? Lack of fulfillment in their wor...

• Author(s): Brearley C Paul • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyFirst published in 1990, Working in Residential Homes for Elderly People outlines the purposes and objectives of residential homes and what it ...

• Author(s): Lisa Wagner | Chandra M. Mehrotra | Man Guo • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Mental HealthWagner, Mehrotra, and Guo present up-to-date knowledge and scholarship about aging and diversity in a way that en...

• Author(s): Henk Visser | Jan Baars • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyThe aim of this volume is to revitalise the debate about the concepts of time implicit in the study of aging. The many problems related...

• Author(s): Robert E. Hess • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralRenowned specialists on aging explore the meaning of prevention and provide practical information about programs and services for the elderly. Inter...

• Author(s): Norman M. Brier • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeriatricsThis book provides practical evidence-based strategies that will help clinicians across a broad range of disciplines to address and discuss the ...

• Author(s): Meredith Minkler | Carroll Estes • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyThis unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic...

• Author(s): Meredith Minkler | Carroll Estes • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyThis unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic...

• Author(s): Brier Norman M. • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeriatricsThis book provides practical evidence-based strategies that will help clinicians across a broad range of disciplines to address and discuss the ...

• Author(s): Beatriz Marín-Aguilera | Stefan Hanß • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History - European - RenaissanceIn-Between Textiles is a decentred study of how textiles shaped, disrupted, and transformed subjectiv...

• Author(s): Jr. Ahearn Frederick L. | Jr. Ahearn Frederick L. • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyGain a new perspective on the international implications of our aging population!This comprehensive book exam...

• Author(s): Lisa Folkmarson Käll | Kristin Zeiler • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Gender StudiesIntersections of Feminist Technoscience and Phenomenology: Subjectivity, Embodiment, Agency brings together feminist p...