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  • Age-Friendly Cities and Communities

    A Global Perspective

    par Olivia Vanmechelen, Pui Hing Chau, Rebecca L. Jones, Caroline Holland, Jeanne Katz, Sheila Peace, Paul McGarry, Mark Hammond, Stefan White, Lisa Cannon, Cathy Gong, Hal Kendig, Kieran Walsh, Thomas Scharf, Bernard McDonald, Moses Wong, Francis Cheung, Jean Woo, David Phillips, Dominique Verte, Nico De Witte, Daan Duppen, Liesbeth De Donder, An-Sofie Smetcoren, Birgit Wolter, Josefine Heusinger, Meredith Dale, Luma Al Masarweh, Dale Dannefer, Jessica Kelley-Moore, Fleur Thomese, Samuèle Remillard-Boilard ...
    Collections series Ageing in a Global Context
    As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories and policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people living in urban areas.In this book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, leading international researchers critically assess the problems and the potential of designing age-friendly environments. The ... En savoir plus

    $48.99 CAD

  • Ageing in Australia

    Challenges and Opportunities

    Modifié par Kate O’Loughlin, Colette Browning, Hal Kendig ...
    Collections series Social Sciences (R0)
    This stimulating volume examines the many faces of Australia’s ageing population, the social and health issues they contend with, and the steps being taken—and many that should be taken—to help ensure a more positive and productive later life. Individual and societal ageing are conceptualized as developmental in nature, socially diverse, and marked by daily life challenges stemming from the ... En savoir plus

    $115.29 CAD

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  • A Long Bright Future

    par Laura Carstensen ...
    The twentieth century bequeathed us a fabulous gift: thirty more years of life on average. Supersized life spans are going to radically alter society, and present an unprecedented opportunity to change our approach not only to old age but to all of life's stages. The ramifications are just beginning to dawn on us.... yet in the meantime, we keep thinking about, and planning for, life as it used to ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Quarterly Essay 57 Dear Life

    On Caring for the Elderly

    par Karen Hitchcock ...
    Collections Livre 57 - Quarterly Essay
    In this moving and controversial Quarterly Essay, doctor and writer Karen Hitchcock investigates the treatment of the elderly and dying through some unforgettable cases. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions, frailty and dementia, over-treatment and escalating costs.Ours is a society in which ageism, often disguised, threatens to turn the elderly into a “burden” – ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • A Place Called Canterbury

    Tales of the New Old Age in America

    par Dudley Clendinen ...
    An "affectionate, touchingly empathetic" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times) look at old age in America today Welcome to Canterbury Tower , an apartment building in Florida, where the residents are busy with friendships, love, sex, money, and gossip-and the average age is eightysix. Journalist Dudley Clendinen's mother moved to Canterbury in 1994, planning-like most the inhabitants-to spend her ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $8.99 CAD Maintenant $5.99 CAD

  • Dear Life

    On Caring for the Elderly

    par Karen Hitchcock ...
    In this short, powerful book, Karen Hitchcock shines a light on ageism in our society. Through some unforgettable case studies, she shows what care for the elderly and dying is really like – both the good and the bad. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions and over-treatment, frailty and dementia.Dear Life is a moving and controversial argument against the creeping ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Prime Time

    How Baby Boomers Will Revolutionize Retirement And Transform America

    par Marc Freedman ...
    Over the next three decades, the number of Americans over fifty will double, swelling to more than a quarter of the population. Already we are living thirty years longer than a century ago, with further gains expected in the coming years. The end result is a new stage of life, one as long or longer than childhood or middle age in duration, and one spent in unprecedented good health. Yet, as ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Ageing and Caring

    A Guide for Later Life

    par Des O’Neill ...
    Although it is something that affects all of us, directly or indirectly, ageing can all too often be perceived negatively. Ageing and Caring is an essential, positive guide for older people, their carers and their families. It seeks to outline not only the challenges that can arise from ageing but also how active and rewarding life can continue to be in old age.From practical advice on remaining ... En savoir plus

    $12.33 CAD

  • Take Care, Son

    The Story of My Dad and his Dementia

    par Tony Husband ...
    'Hi Dad . . . can we have a chat about your dementia . . . Can you remember how it started?'When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, appointments . . . daft things, important things - it took a while to realise that this was 'a different form of forgetting'. But it was just the first sign of the illness that gradually took him away from the family he loved.This is the touching, ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • Psychodynamic Perspectives on Aging and Illness

    par Tamara McClintock Greenberg ...
    Collections series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    More than ever, the aging process is recognized as carrying a special set of emotional challenges–especially when acute or chronic medical conditions are involved. In this light, Psychodynamic Perspectives on Aging and Illness presents a fresh, contemporary application of psychodynamic theory, addressing the complex issues surrounding declining health. Informed by the spectrum of psychodynamic ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Growing in Age: Ageing in Today’s Society

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • A Baby Boomer's Guide to Their Second Sixties

    par 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. ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD