The collection of essays in this volume explores the significance of old age for Jews and Christians as well as Greeks and Romans in antiquity. Of interest for students and scholars of religion, as well as scholars in classical studies and ancient h...Loe edasi...
First published in 1990, focusing on the enigma of the ageing process, this title considers the problems associated with the life course in a variety of cultures. By examining the cultural construction of ageing and extending to the life course as a...Loe edasi...
This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity...Loe edasi...
Life and Death considers ageing and mortality from a psychoanalytic perspective and from the point of view of the individual, the couple, and the family. The book grounds a psychoanalytic approach to understanding later life as a key point of develo...Loe edasi...
The first book fully devoted to the impact of climate change the elderly, focusing on issues of critical importance: aging in place; health and age in a warming world; responsibility for the climate crisis; climate-conscious consumption; planning fo...Loe edasi...
Given this variation in the context of global ageing as a backdrop, this edited book focuses on three overarching themes that are among the most critical to understand if societies are to age successfully in the twenty-first century and beyond: Heal...Loe edasi...
Considering the situation in Japan and Germany, this book analyses the needs of host countries from a demographic standpoint, the desires of migrants in terms of education, training, and labour market participation, and policies and actions on the p...Loe edasi...
This book provides a systematic study of the challenges of aging in China and of the measures being taken, planned and still needed to cope with the challenges....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Jul-2024, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003450214)
This book examines the biological, psychological, and sociocultural aspects of challenges related to ageing in India. It does so by widely referring to research works beyond the disciplinary boundary of sociology to help develop a lucid yet critical...Loe edasi...
What would it mean to substitute care for economics as the central concern of politics? This anthology invites analysis, reflections and speculations on how contemporary artists and creative practitioners engage with, interpret, and enact care in pr...Loe edasi...
First published in 1989, this title explores the lives of people who have lost sight in late life as a result of age-related visual disorders. As life-expectancy in western society has increased, the number of people who fall into this group has gro...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1966, this was the first full-length study by a sociologist of isolation in old age. Although the majority of old people were in no sense a problem group at the time, a substantial minority of the elderly were alone in one or...Loe edasi...
In the 1980s the need for long-term care for elderly people in Western societies was quite obvious and countries had responded in a number of different ways. First published in 1985, the central theme of this book is to explore these ways and to pro...Loe edasi...
In the 1960s, planning the development of services for the elderly was a subject of importance in Britain. First published in 1969, this book describes how a sample of local authorities were planning their services, how they estimated the need for s...Loe edasi...
First published in 1982, this book defines sheltered housing, traces its development in Western society and analyses its success under variations in Great Britain. The analysis focuses on those aspects of the sheltered housing programme that had rel...Loe edasi...
First published in 1984, the title looks at the field of elderly care and domiciliary work from the perspective of social services. Starting with early influences that helped shape the development of Domiciliary Services, the author goes on to look...Loe edasi...
Quality Learning for Positive Ageing explores the views of older adult learners to understand the factors that contribute to quality in later-life learning and how these relate to wellbeing, positive ageing and gaining protection against cognitive d...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Feb-2024, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780429352560)
This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society. It explores its representations and the anxieties, fears and vulnerabilities associated with ageing....Loe edasi...
This book explores how neoliberalism and austerity have affected older people living within a deindustrialised town, utilising a Foucauldian approach and an ethnographic methodology....Loe edasi...
Drawing on an international pool of scholars, this cutting-edge Handbook surveys the micro, macro and institutional aspects of the economics of ageing. It addresses a broad range of themes, including health economics, labour economics, pensions and...Loe edasi...
First published in 1957, The Family Life of Old People opens with the question: Are old people isolated from their families? Thereafter, the author describes the results of intensive interviews with people of pensionable age in Bethnal Green in East...Loe edasi...
This book demonstrates how the largely neglected and multifaceted concept of distance can be used as a primary lens to expand and enrich our understandings of what older people say about their lives, needs, and wishes in diverse surroundings in the...Loe edasi...
This book provides comprehensive coverage on aging and safety aspects including fire safety, food safety, and occupational safety in a single volume. It will an ideal text for professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human fa...Loe edasi...
Advancing the notion of connected autonomy, and highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary research in the development of this novel concept, this volume explores the possibility of maintaining the freedom to make ones own decisions in later l...Loe edasi...
The ageing population is a global societal issue. Policymakers, planners, and the public, third and private sectors must rethink the delivery of built environment and services to meet the needs of a changing demographic. This is the first book to sy...Loe edasi...
This book engages with the concept of age-friendly environments, adopting multi-perspectivity to demonstrate how age-friendly environments can contribute to shifting how we think, feel and act toward issues of age and ageing and operate as a vehicle...Loe edasi...
This book addresses policies related to ageing, traditional Asian approaches to ageing, an integrated medical system approaches to ageing, ageing in place, and community empowerment....Loe edasi...
A Handbook of Geriatric Neuropsychology brings together experts in the field to integrate the knowledge and skills needed to understand and treat older adults who are experiencing problems with memory and other thinking skills, providing a strong fo...Loe edasi...
Mobile Citizenship addresses the question of how mobility reconfigures citizenship, offering a novel perspective through the case of lifestyle émigrés, in particular retirees, moving south, from Germany to Turkey....Loe edasi...
This book examines narratives of dementia in contemporary literary texts, studying what is now a pressing issue with deep political, economic, and social implications for many ageing societies. As part of the increasing visibility of dementia in soc...Loe edasi...
