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Aging Families in Chinese Society

Aging Families in Chinese Society

1st Edition

Edited By Merril D. Silverstein
January 29, 2024

Declining fertility rates and increased life expectancies over the last few decades have conspired to make China one of the more rapidly aging societies in the world. Aging Families in Chinese Society focuses on the accelerated social and demographic changes in China and examines their implications...

Life-Course Implications of US Public Policy

Life-Course Implications of US Public Policy

1st Edition

Edited By Janet Wilmoth, Andrew London
May 25, 2021

There is a complex set of public policies and associated programs that constitute the social safety net in the United States. In Life-Course Implications of U.S. Public Policies, the authors encourage others to systematically consider the influence of policies and programs on lives, aging, and the ...

Dorian Graying Is Youth the Only Thing Worth Having?

Dorian Graying: Is Youth the Only Thing Worth Having?

1st Edition

By Robert Kastenbaum
June 15, 1995

In his latest and perhaps most adventuresome book, Robert Kastenbaum offers a fresh view of the quest for perpetual youth. The focus is on the "pretty monster" that Oscar Wilde created a century ago in "The Picture of Dorian Gray". We see Dorian first within the frame of his own times, responding ...

Older Adults with Developmental Disabilities

Older Adults with Developmental Disabilities

1st Edition

By Claire Lavin, Kenneth Doka
June 15, 1999

Assesses the needs and lives of the first generation of people with developmental disabilities who have survived into later life. Describes the challenges facing practitioners in gerontology and developmental disabilities to modify programs designed for mid-life adults, and notes that senior ...

Surviving Dependence Voices of African American Elders

Surviving Dependence: Voices of African American Elders

1st Edition

By Mary Ball, Frank Whittington
June 15, 1995

To date there has not been a clear look at the home care experience of older African Americans. "Surviving Dependence: Voices of African American Elders" attempts to meet the need for recording and interpreting the ordinary life of elderly African Americans on their own terms, in their own ...

The Need for Theory Critical Approaches to Social Gerontology

The Need for Theory: Critical Approaches to Social Gerontology

1st Edition

By Simon Biggs, Jon Hendricks, Ariela Lowenstein
July 15, 2003

The "Need for Theory" speaks to the burgeoning need for critical thinking in social gerontology. The editors have brought together some of the foremost contributors to theoretical advances in the field. This volume incorporates state-of-the-art theorizing with a focus on selected topical areas ...

The Old Age Challenge to the Biomedical Model Paradigm Strain and Health Policy

The Old Age Challenge to the Biomedical Model: Paradigm Strain and Health Policy

1st Edition

By Charles F. Longino
June 15, 1995

Central to this book is the idea that the United States is in the midst of a health care crisis, one that will be exacerbated as the population continues to age. Longino and Murphy trace the philosophical and technological development of the biomedical model and show its inadequacy to deal with the...

Dying in Old Age U.S. Practice and Policy

Dying in Old Age: U.S. Practice and Policy

1st Edition

By Sara Moorman
September 15, 2020

Three-quarters of deaths in the U.S. today occur to people over the age of 65, following chronic illness. This new experience of "predictable death" has important consequences for the ways in which societies structure their health care systems, laws, and labor markets. Dying in Old Age: U.S. ...

Rural Health and Aging Research Theory, Methods, and Practical Applications

Rural Health and Aging Research: Theory, Methods, and Practical Applications

1st Edition

By Wilbert Gesler, Donna Rabiner, Gordon Defriese
April 16, 2019

This book describes a wide-ranging set of research approaches which have been used to study the health care problems of adults living in rural areas. It shows how these approaches can be used to define health care problems, measure levels of illness and health, and evaluate health care practices. ...

Beyond Gender Differences Adaptation to Aging in Life Course Perspective

Beyond Gender Differences: Adaptation to Aging in Life Course Perspective

1st Edition

By Laurie Russell Hatch
January 30, 2019

Putting gender in a lifespan context, Hatch (sociology, U. of Kentucky) atypically accents the gains as well as losses of aging and sex differences in adaptation overall, to the death of a spouse, and to retirement. From the multifactored theoretical perspectives of symbolic interactionism and polit...

Staying Put Adapting the Places Instead of the People

Staying Put: Adapting the Places Instead of the People

1st Edition

By Susan Lanspery, Joan Hyde
January 29, 2019

Most existing housing offers a poor fit for older people and people with disabilities, and new construction adds less than 2 per cent to the housing each year. Ninety-nine percent of the housing that will be in use in the year 2000 exists today. The long-needed anthology "Staying Put: Adapting the ...

Lives in Time and Place The Problems and Promises of Developmental Science

Lives in Time and Place: The Problems and Promises of Developmental Science

1st Edition

By R. A. Settersten
December 19, 2018

Time and place are of the greatest significance for scientific inquiry about human lives. As we seek to better understand the nature and rhythm of the life course in modern societies, its effective analysis and explanation simultaneously becomes more pressing and more complicated. This information ...

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