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  • Advancing Long-Term Care Policy and Research in China

    Edited by Zhanlian Feng, Bei Wu ...
    Population aging and rapid socioeconomic changes are weakening family-based elder care while escalating the needs for long-term care services for older adults in China. This book presents insightful analysis and research findings on a wide range of policy-relevant issues related to long-term care for older adults in China.China’s population is aging at an unprecedented pace. Currently, older ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Aging in Canada

    by Neena L. Chappell, Marcus J. Hollander ...
    Canada, like other countries, is aging. The media has reported on a "grey tsunami," a demographic change reflecting longer life expectancy and the retirement of the so-called baby boomer generation. The numbers and percentages of older adults within our population continue to increase. In 2010, 15.3 percent of Canada's population was over 65; in 2030, it will be 24.1 percent. Many commentators ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Romania's Abandoned Children

    Deprivation, Brain Development, and the Struggle for Recovery

    by Charles A. Nelson, Nathan A. Fox, Charles H. Zeanah ...
    This "landmark study of child development" examines the devastating effects of early childhood institutionalization (Avshalom Caspi, Duke University).In 1989, the fall of Romania's Ceausescu regime left approximately 170,000 children in impoverished institutions across the country. This crisis prompted the most comprehensive study to date on the effects of institutionalization on a child's brain ... Read more

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  • Population Mental Health

    Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice

    Edited by Neal Cohen, Sandro Galea ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Health
    First Published in 2012. The past 150 years have seen dramatic and continuing improvements in health and life expectancy. In the last century alone. Formulating a 21st century public health agenda to address the increasing burden of chronic diseases worldwide will require the same innovation and perseverance. Split into three sections, the first highlights the public health significance of mental ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences

    Edited by Linda George ...
    Series series Handbooks of Aging
    Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Seventh Edition, provides extensive reviews and critical evaluations of research on the social aspects of aging. It also makes available major references and identifies high-priority topics for future research. The book is organized into four parts. Part 1 reviews developments in the field of age and the life course (ALC) studies and presents guidelines ... Read more

    $92.99 USD

  • Social Background and the Demographic Life Course: Cross-National Comparisons

    Edited by Aart C. Liefbroer, Mioara Zoutewelle-Terovan ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book examines how childhood social disadvantage influences young-adult demographic decision-making and later-life economic and well-being outcomes. This book in particular focuses on testing whether the consequences of childhood social disadvantage for adult outcomes differ across societies, and whether these differences are shaped by the “context of opportunities” that societies ... Read more

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  • Asian Parenting

    Meanings, Characteristics, and Implications

    Edited by Xinyin Chen ...
    Series series Studies in Parenting Series
    Asian Parenting provides a comprehensive and scholarly discussion of the distinct features, meanings, and implications for human development of contemporary Asian parenting, beyond Western theoretical frameworks. It explores how cultural beliefs and values shape socialization goals and practices and guide parent-child interactions. Edited by Xinyin Chen, contributions from leading scholars discuss ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • World Education Research Yearbook 2015

    Edited by Lori Diane Hill, Felice J. Levine ...
    Series series World Education Research Yearbook
    The World Education Research Association (WERA) is an association of major national, regional, and international specialty research associations dedicated to advancing education research as a scientific and scholarly field. WERA undertakes initiatives that are global in nature and thus transcend what any one association can accomplish in its own country, region, or area of specialization._____ ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care

    Perspectives from Australia

    by Susanne Garvis, Matthew Manning ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Early Childhood Education
    An Interdisciplinary Approach to Early Childhood Education and Care explores early childhood education and care in Australia from a variety of perspectives, highlighting the complexity of working within the field and the need for a truly interdisciplinary approach. It argues that only a holistic understanding of each perspective will allow a clear future for early childhood education within ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Factors in Studying Employment for Persons with Disability

    How the Picture can Change

    Edited by Barbara Altman ...
    Series Book 10 - Research in Social Science and Disability
    The current literature regarding employment among persons with disabilities produces research results dependent on definitions of work disability, the discipline within which research takes places, the model or paradigm of disability in which the research is framed, the methodology and measures used and the cultural context in which employment occurs.This volume seeks to address those factors ... Read more

    $126.99 USD

  • Equity, Equality and Diversity in the Nordic Model of Education

    Edited by Tove Stjern Frønes, Andreas Pettersen, Jelena Radišić, Nils Buchholtz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Does the Nordic model of education still stand by its original principles and safeguard education for all? This Open Access volume is a carefully crafted collection of chapters that investigate the different aspects of equity, equality and diversity across the education systems in the Nordic countries. Based on data from various national and international large-scale assessments, the volume ... Read more

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  • Social Work Health and Mental Health

    Practice, Research and Programs

    by Steven P. Segal ...
    Rise to today’s challenges with these innovative and helpful value-based solutions!Containing important, research-based insights into social work practice in these fields, Social Work Health and Mental Health Practice, Research and Programs provides unique perspectives on shared practice problems from around the world, offering new solutions to the dilemmas practitioners face every day, such as ... Read more

    $140.99 USD