Senior Centers in America

John Krout

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• Senior Centers in America presents the most comprehensive and current examination of this important topic available today. Written by one of the leadi... Lees meer

Residential Care for the Elderly

Sharon Baggett

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• Although residential care and assisted living for older adults has expanded rapidly in recent decades, it has done so in a policy environment beset by... Lees meer

Religion, Health, and Aging

Jo Ann Ploch Gonzales, Harold Koenig, Mona Smiley

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• This book presents a comprehensive and scientific review of the research during the past fifty years on the relationship between religion and health i... Lees meer

Philanthropy and Gerontology

Ann H I Sontz

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• As pressures on public resources increase, more consideration is given to the role of private foundations in responding to the needs of the elderly--o... Lees meer

Suicide Among the Elderly in Long-Term Care Facilities

Barbara Brant, Aaron P Lipman, Nancy Osgood

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• This is the first large-scale study of suicide in a population of institutionalized older adults. From their findings, the authors identify the most a... Lees meer

Hispanic Elderly in Transition

Steven Applewhite

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• An outstanding examination of the cross-cultural apsects in social work practice and service dealing with Hispanic elderly, in particular Puerto Rican... Lees meer

Public Policy Opinion and the Elderly, 1952-1978

Gershom Morningstar, John E Tropman

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• John E. Tropman examines older Americans and public policy opinion between 1952 and 1978 in order to see just where elder citizens fit in the overall ... Lees meer

Social Policies for the Elderly in the Third World

Martin B Tracy

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• This volume proposes a clearly structured method to study social programs for the elderly in economically developing nations. Martin B. Tracy approach... Lees meer

Aiding and Aging

John Mogey

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• Citizens of all societies age both as biological beings and as members of households in the open community. Through joining a series of essays and sur... Lees meer

Passages of Retirement

Richard Prentis

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• This innovative volume presents the personal aspects of retirement--the feelings, pleasures, and problems of this life event, expressed in the words o... Lees meer

Problem Employee Management

Willa M Bruce

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• Written for human resources managers and executives, this book takes a pragmatic approach to a problem all organizations face, but is often neglected ... Lees meer

Environment and Aging Theory

Rick J Scheidt

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging | nr. 26
• Noted scholars of environment-aging relations and environmental psychology examine the value of selected classic, contemporary, and in one instance, c... Lees meer

North American Elders

Betty Havens, Eloise Rathborn- McCuan

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• This collection of essays provides an analysis of Canadian/U.S. social policy toward aging. The first chapter presents a continental view of demograph... Lees meer

Power and Poverty

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• Despite calls since the 1970s for more research into the history of old age, there is still a relative dearth of historical studies on the elderly, es... Lees meer

Centenarians

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• Successful survivors speak for themselves in this exhaustive study of the lives, attitudes, and lifestyles of more than 500 centenarians. A product of... Lees meer

Elder Mistreatment

Tanya F Johnson

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• Mistreatment of the elderly became recognized as a serious and growing problem in the late 1970s, as a result of governmental investigations and resea... Lees meer

Perceptions of Aging in Literature

P Vn Dorotka Bagnell, Pat Spencer Soper

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• The various norms and values of aging that have been created by humans in the course of history have been largely ignored by gerontologists, who are t... Lees meer

Shared Housing for the Elderly

Dale J Jaffe

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• This book is the first collection of original essays on the topic of elderly shared housing. The approach is multidisciplinary and reflects a rare com... Lees meer

Uprooted in Old Age

Howard Litwin

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging | nr. 25
• This first-hand empirical study of elderly Soviet Jews who immigrated to Israel during the Great Exodus of 1989 to 1991 demonstrates the double jeopar... Lees meer

Population Aging in the United States

William J Serow, David F Sly, J Michael Wrigley

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• This incisive work reviews the salient aspects of the demographic, social, and economic characteristics of the aging of the population of the United S... Lees meer

The Chronically Disabled Elderly in Society

Merna J Alpert

• Hardcover | Engels | Contributions to the Study of Aging
• In this period of upheaval of our nation's health care system, this timely work serves to increase awareness of and knowledge about the problems of so... Lees meer