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  • Faces of Women and Aging

    by Ellen Cole, Esther D Rothblum, Nancy C Davis ...
    Discover the diverse ways aging women attempt to deal with the universal challenges of loss, sickness, and death along with the problems of being old women in a society that values women mainly as sexual partners or producers of children. Old women are often seen as poor, powerless, and pitiful in our sexist and youth-oriented society. The truth is that women age much more successfully than do men ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Longevity Economy

    Unlocking the World's Fastest-Growing, Most Misunderstood Market

    by Joseph F. Coughlin ...
    Oldness: a social construct at odds with reality that constrains how we live after middle age and stifles business thinking on how to best serve a group of consumers, workers, and innovators that is growing larger and wealthier with every passing day.Over the past two decades, Joseph F. Coughlin has been busting myths about aging with groundbreaking multidisciplinary research into what older ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Virtues of Aging

    by Jimmy Carter ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Former president Jimmy Carter reflects on aging, blending memoir, anecdote, political savvy, and practical advice to truly illuminate the rich promises of growing older.“As we've grown older, the results have been surprisingly good,” writes former president Jimmy Carter in this wise, deeply personal meditation on the new experiences that come to us with age. President ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Growing in Age: Ageing in Today’s Society

    by Anne Millar ...
    Growing in Age draws on Anne Millar's years of working with older people through nursing, counselling and pastoral care.It covers many aspects of ageing:- Society and it's attitudes- The personal journey of ageing- How relationships change: on retirement, when a spouse dies and when older people divorce and remarry- Changes and challenges of loss and grief, depression, dementia and dying- Caring ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Baby Boomer's Guide to Their Second Sixties

    by Ryan Custer Amacher ...
    While this book was written for male Baby Boomers and their significant others, it also includes Boomer history and what lies ahead as we experience the decade of our own sixties. This story reviews our Boomer luck, recounts the great history of being a kid in the 1950s, and the great opportunities provided by improved education in the 1960s, not to ignore a seemingly mind expanding culture. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Social Work Practice in Home Health Care

    by Ruth Ann Goode-Chresos ...
    Through Social Work Practice in Home Health Care, social workers will discover a unique “how-to” approach to social work practice in home health care agencies. You will find a historical perspective on home health care and clinical interventions to help you improve home health care for your patients. A wide range of clients, such as the developmentally disabled, post-hospitalization patients, the ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • Victim Assistance

    Exploring Individual Practice, Organizational Policy, and Societal Responses

    Edited by Christine Edmunds, Thomas L. Underwood, PhD ...
    Series series Springer Series on Family Violence
    Based on the acclaimed professional certificate program, Advanced Institute on Victim Studies: Critical Analysis of Victim Assistance, this book identifies core content areas essential for practitioners working with crime victims.Recognizing the multidisciplined, multisystem field that encompasses victim assistance, the contributors present a solid foundation of the varying concepts and theories ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Age Matters

    Re-Aligning Feminist Thinking

    by Toni M. Calasanti, Kathleen F. Slevin ...
    This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men. Similarly, we know more about how gendered power relations interface with race and ethnicity, class and sexual orientation. Serious theorizing of old ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Constructing the Life Course

    by James A. Holstein, Jaber F. Gubrium ...
    Series series The Reynolds Series in Sociology
    Constructing the Life Course offers a social constructionist perspective on personal experience through time. The text shows the variety of ways people use life course imagery in their everyday lives and makes a useful addition to family studies or gerontology courses. ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Losing Clive to Younger Onset Dementia

    One Family's Story

    by Helen Beaumont ...
    Clive Beaumont was diagnosed with Younger Onset Dementia at age 45, when his children were aged just 3 and 4. He had become less and less able to do his job properly and had been made redundant from the Army the year before.Clive's wife, Helen, tells of how she and the rest of the family made it through the next six years until Clive died: the challenge of continually adapting to his progressive ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • The Transitions of Aging

    by Suchit Arora ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the unresolved paradox at the heart of population aging, namely how to account for the fact that death rates from most non-communicable diseases rise as people age, yet aggregate death rates from such diseases have decreased overall despite an increasingly aging population. It provides a long-term historical perspective on this issue, presenting evidence that the underpinnings ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Environmental Gerontology in Europe and Latin America

    Policies and Perspectives on Environment and Aging

    Edited by Diego Sánchez-González, Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book looks at the relationships between the physical-social environment and the elderly in Europe and Latin America, from the Environmental Gerontology perspective and through geographical and psychosocial approaches. It addresses the main environmental issues of population ageing, based on an understanding of the complex relationships, adjustments and adaptations between different ... Read more

    $89.09 USD