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): Lewis D. Solomon • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyMany scientists today are working to retard the aging process in humans so as to increase both life expectancy and the ...

• 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): Simon Biggs • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyThe question of communication and understanding between different generations is emerging as a key issue for the twenty-first century. T...

• 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): Laurie Russell Hatch • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyPutting gender in a lifespan context, Hatch (sociology, U. of Kentucky) atypically accents the gains as well as losses of aging...

• Author(s): Leon A Pastalan • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyIn this highly practical volume, the contributing authors explore some of the dimensions associated with aging in place. There are i...

• 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): 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): 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): Vincent Horn • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyThis book focuses on the diverse interrelationships between aging and transnationality. It argues that the lives of older people are in...

• Author(s): Michael Bury • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyIn Life After Ninety Micheal Bury and Anthea Holme have surveyed and interviewed 200 individuals, living at home and in institutions, t...

• Author(s): Paris S Strom • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Developmental - Lifespan DevelopmentThis unique text encourages young adults to reflect on their prospective longevity for setting goals and maki...

• 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): Katharine Bethell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Mental Health This book is a refreshingly honest self-help guide to aging well. It encourages readers to dispel gloom or overcome denial arou...

• Author(s): Peggy Teo • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralOlder persons are often portrayed as social and financial burdens because pensions, health and social care hav...

• 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): 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): Maria Luszczynska • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareThe Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made availabl...

• 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): Dale Dannefer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe dominant narratives of both science and popular culture typically define aging and h...

• Author(s): Sara Moorman • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyThree-quarters of deaths in the U.S. today occur to people over the age of 65, following chronic illness. This new experience of "predi...

• Author(s): Amanda Davies • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: DemographyPopulation ageing is projected to affect all countries across the world in coming decades. The current rate of population ageing is unp...

• Author(s): Matilda White Riley • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis book provides deeper understanding of the aging process, of the likely differences between the lives of past and fu...

• Author(s): Vern Bengtson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GerontologyNew Dimensions in Spirituality, Religion, and Aging expands the traditional focus of religiosity to include and evaluate recent resear...

• 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): Cronin | Anne F. • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences • BISAC: Allied Health Services - Occupational TherapyLifespan Human Function and Occupation provides a...

• Author(s): Terry Hargrave • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Psychotherapy - Couples & FamilyAs the population of the United States ages, and the lifspan increases, so does the number of living generat...

• Author(s): Martin Slattery • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe New Sociology of Ageing explores the challenges and opportunities of ageing as a global force. Alongside globalisation, ...

• Author(s): Alan Blum • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThe anxiety over death persists in everyday life- though often denied or repressed- lingering as an unconscious worry or intuition that typica...

• Author(s): Jason Newsom • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: StatisticsThis book provides accessible treatment to state-of-the-art approaches to analyzing longitudinal studies. Comprehensive coverage of the ...

• Author(s): Mary Lee Hummert • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Life Stages - Later YearsThis collection highlights the current efforts by scholars and researchers to understand the aging process as it rela...

• 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...