End of Life and Long Term Care Books

New and Published Books

1. When Parents Die

   Learning to Live with the Loss of a Parent, 3rd Edition

   By Rebecca Abrams

   The death of a parent marks an emotional and psychological watershed in a person's life. For children and teenagers, the loss of a parent if not handled sensitively can be a lasting trauma, and for adults too, a parent's death can be a tremendous blow. When Parents Die speaks to bereaved children...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
2. Environmental Gerontology

   What Now?

   Edited by Rick Scheidt, Benyamin Schwarz

   Environmental gerontology – the research on aging and environment – evolved during the late 1960s, when the domain became a relevant topic due to societal concerns with the problems of housing for elderly people. The field proliferated during the 1970s and 1980s, and remains viable and active today...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
3. Loneliness Updated

   Recent research on loneliness and how it affects our lives

   Edited by Ami Rokach

   "To be alone is to be different. To be different is to be alone, and to be in the interior of this fatal circle is to be lonely. To be lonely is to have failed" (Susan Schultz, 1976) Loneliness carries a significant social stigma, as lack of friendship and social ties is socially undesirable, and...

   Published November 8th 2012 by Routledge
4. Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine

   Edited by Antje Kampf, Barbara L. Marshall, Alan Petersen

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness

   Aging Men, Masculinities and Modern Medicine explores the multiple socio-historical contexts surrounding men’s aging bodies in modern medicine from a global perspective. The first of its kind, it investigates the interrelated aspects of aging, masculinities and biomedicine, allowing for a timely...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Affordable Care Act

   Advancing Long-Term Care Policy in the United States

   Edited by Edward Miller

   Long-term care in the United States and other countries suffers multiple problems. Many people find it difficult to afford the high costs of services available and there is often inadequate care coordination, which compromises care quality, particularly amongst those eligible for multiple public...

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
6. War Trauma and Its Wake

   Expanding the Circle of Healing

   Edited by Raymond Monsour Scurfield, Katherine Theresa Platoni

   Series: Routledge Psychosocial Stress Series

   Decades after Charles Figley’s landmark Trauma and Its Wake was published, our understanding of trauma has grown and deepened, but we still face considerable challenges when treating trauma survivors. This is especially the case for professionals who work with veterans and active-duty military...

   Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
7. Ageing in Singapore

   Service needs and the state

   By Peggy Teo, Kalyani Mehta, Leng Leng Thang, Angelique Chan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   Older persons are often portrayed as social and financial burdens because pensions, health and social care have to withstand increasing old age dependency ratios. Due to a lack of access to representation or a lack of social and economic power, older people have found few opportunities to have...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
8. Women and Aging International

   Diversity, Challenges and Contributions

   Edited by Lee Ann Mjelde-Mossey, Iris Chi

   According to a recent population report by the United Nations, "in most countries, older women greatly outnumber older men. In many cases, the difference is so large that the concerns of the older population should in fact be viewed primarily as the concerns of older women." Internationally, the...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
9. Techniques of Grief Therapy

   Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved

   Edited by Robert A. Neimeyer

   Series: Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement

   Techniques of Grief Therapy is an indispensable guidebook to the most inventive and inspirational interventions in grief and bereavement counseling and therapy. Individually, each technique emphasizes creativity and practicality. As a whole, they capture the richness of practices in the field and...

   Published April 11th 2012 by Routledge
10. Mothers, Infants and Young Children of September 11, 2001

    A Primary Prevention Project

    Edited by Beatrice Beebe, Phyllis Cohen, K. Mark Sossin, Sara Markese

    The group of papers presented in this volume represents ten years of involvement of a group of eight core therapists, working originally with approximately forty families who suffered the loss of husbands and fathers on September 11, 2001. The project focuses on the families of women who were...

    Published February 14th 2012 by Routledge