1st Edition

The Social Challenge of Ageing

Edited By David Hobman Copyright 1978
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

Although all recorded societies have contained a few people of extreme old age, they have been the exception rather than the rule. The possibility of one fifth of the total population in retirement from active employment would have been unthinkable at the beginning of the twentieth century and even social planning in the 1970s had made no adequate provision for a society in which one in every... Read more

Preface David Hobman.  Part One  1. Ageing in Western Society Robert Havighurst  2. Ageing in Eastern Society Daisaku Maeda  3. Ageing and the Environment Robert J. Newcomer and Elizabeth Falor Bexton  4. Ageing and Education Lotte Marcus  Part Two  5. Ageing and Health John Brocklehurst  6. Ageing and Social Work Paul Brearley  7. Ageing and the Mind Tony Whitehead  8. Ageing and the Spirit Paul Gaine  Part Three  9. Ageing and the Architect/Design for Living – A Case Study M. Jenks and R. Newman.  Index.

Biography

David Hobman