Originally published in 1987, this title shows much of the most innovative research and thinking in social gerontology and will interest a wide range of academics and professionals in the social and health sciences and services, interested in gerontology and the welfare of elderly people.
Originally published in 1987, Social Gerontology presents papers from the British Society of Gerontology annual conference held at the University of Glasgow in September 1986. It shows much of the most innovative research and thinking in social gerontology and will interest a wide range of academics and professionals in the social and health sciences and services, interested in gerontology and the welfare of elderly people.
Editors Introduction. Introduction: The Case for a Critical Gerontology
Chris Phillipson and Alan Walker Part One: Research Influence on Policy and
Practice
1. The Research-Led Attack on Sheltered Housing and its Policy
Implications: A Review of Recent Studies Graham Fennell and Ann Way
2.
Illuminating and Influencing Local Policy and Practice David J. Hunter
3.
Research as an Instrument for Implementing Service Provision for Elderly
People: The Case of Newham Health Authoritys Elderly Screening Project
Catherine Itzin
4. Housing for Frail Elderly People The Context, Early
Findings and Question Marks Anthea Tinker and Bill Bytheway Part Two: Issues
for Social Policy
5. New Managerialist Argument and the Supply and Financing
of Care Bleddyn Davies
6. Public Money and Private Care: Paradoxes and
Problems Sally Baldwin and Anne Corden
7. Women and Occupational Pension
Provision: Past and Future Dulcie Groves Part Three: Ageing in Europe
8.
Primary Social and Health Services for the Aged in Greece A.S. Dontas
9. The
Elderly in Poland: An Overview of Selected Problems and Changes Brunon Synak
10. Economic Activity of the Elderly in Turkey: An Analysis of Urban and
Rural Populations A.A. Gurkan and C.J. Gilleard
11. Responses to Health and
Social Problems in Old Age Hans Thomae Part Four: Considerations for Care in
the Community
12. Care in the Families of Redundant Welsh Steelworkers Bill
Bytheway
13. Empowering Carers: Bexley ACE, the Bexley Community Care Scheme
and the Health Service Carol Foster and Nan Maitland
14. Cornwalls Gaza
Strip: Administrative and Cultural Constraints to Geriatric Care in a
Peripheral Rural Area George Giarchi Part Five: Mental Health in the
Community
15. Development of the Geriatric Mental State Examination and
Organic Depression Index as a Case Finding Instrument C. McWilliam, J.R.M.
Copeland and M.E. Dewey
16. The Liverpool Study of Continuing Health in the
Community: Progress with the Year 3 Survey I.A. Davidson, J.R.M. Copeland,
M.E. Dewey, V.K. Sharma, P. Saunders, C. Sullivan, C. McWilliam, L.M.
Voruganti and S.V. Manohar
17. The Rights of the Elderly Suffering from
Dementia W.D. Boyd Part Six: Conceptual Developments
18. Older Workers,
Unemployment and the Discouraged Worker Effect Frank Laczko
19. Does Social
Class Matter in Later Life? Christina Victor and Maria Evandrou
20.
Managing A Concept for Contexualising How People Live Their Later Lives
Silvana di Gregorio Part Seven: Future Trends in Gerontology
21. Educational
Gerontology in the Future: Unanswered Questions Frank Glendenning. Details of
Contributors.
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