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  • Community Resources for Older Adults

    Programs and Services in an Era of Change

    par Robbyn R. Wacker, Karen A. Roberto ...
    Community Resources for Older Adults provides comprehensive, up-to-date information on programs, services, and policies pertaining to older adults. Authors Robbyn R. Wacker and Karen A. Roberto build reader awareness of programs and discuss how to better understand help-seeking behavior, as well as explain ways to take advantage of the resources available to older adults. The substantially revised ... En savoir plus

    $125.59 CAD

  • Aging Social Policies

    An International Perspective

    par Robbyn R. Wacker, Karen A. Roberto ...
    Our population is aging. What will we do about it?Due to population explosion and a global increase in average life expectancies, an unprecedentedly high percentage of the world′s population is aging. By the middle of this century there will be up to 2 billion individuals over the age of 65, a demographic shift never before experienced in our human history. In addition, declining birth rates in ... En savoir plus

    $125.59 CAD

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  • The Time Of Women

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    Susanna may be mute, but not stupid. And although she is still a child she can draw wonderful pictures. But as it was in the Soviet Union behind the iron curtain in those days it was not easy to raise a deaf child that didn't fit into the communist ideal, and the state would whisk her swiftly away into a home if they found her. Her mother Antonia had a stroke of luck as she, although a lowly ... En savoir plus

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  • Retirement on the Line

    Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory

    par Caitrin Lynch ...
    In an era when people live longer and want (or need) to work past the traditional retirement age, the Vita Needle Company of Needham, Massachusetts, provides inspiration and important lessons about the value of older workers. Vita Needle is a family-owned factory that was founded in 1932 and makes needles, stainless steel tubing and pipes, and custom fabricated parts. As part of its unusual ... En savoir plus

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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

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  • Art of Living, Art of Dying

    Spiritual Care for a Good Death

    par Carlo Leget ...
    Without an appropriate spiritual care model, it can be difficult to discuss existential questions about death and dying with people who are confronted with life-threatening or incurable diseases. This book offers a simple framework for interpreting existential questions with patients and helping them to cope in end-of-life situations, with illustrative examples from practice.Building on the ... En savoir plus

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  • Reconstructing Retirement

    Work and Welfare in the UK and USA

    par David Dr Lain ...
    Retirement is being ‘reconstructed’, with the UK following the US path of abolishing mandatory retirement and increasing state pension ages. This timely book assesses prospects for work and retirement at age 65-plus in the UK and US.Part 1 explores the shifting ‘policy logics’ in both countries that increase both the need and opportunities to work past age 65. Part 2 presents an original ... En savoir plus

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  • Connecting Childhood and Old Age in Popular Media

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    Contributions by Gökçe Elif Baykal, Lincoln Geraghty, Verónica Gottau, Vanessa Joosen, Sung-Ae Lee, Cecilia Lindgren, Mayako Murai, Emily Murphy, Mariano Narodowski, Johanna Sjöberg, Anna Sparrman, Ingrid Tomkowiak, Helma van Lierop-Debrauwer, Ilgim Veryeri Alaca, and Elisabeth WesselingMedia narratives in popular culture often assign interchangeable characteristics to childhood and old age, ... En savoir plus

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  • Growing in Age and Wisdom

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    Anne Millar provides encouragement for older people in these inspirational reflections on the meaning and purpose found in growing older.These short, readable articles are grouped into broad topics of:• Making Meaning• Health and Harmony• Relationships and Realities• Edges and Endings• Seasons and StagesThis book will be welcomed by:• Older people• Those who work with and care for older people• ... En savoir plus

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  • Population Aging, Fertility and Social Security

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    This book provides a comprehensive, theory-based analysis of current issues in population economics. It addresses the most important problems caused by demographic changes using the popular overlapping generations growth model by Samuelson and Diamond. Taking into account families’ fertility decisions, it examines not only the demographic changes due to longer life expectancy but also the effects ... En savoir plus

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  • Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure

    Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology

    Modifié par Jan Baars, Joseph Dohmen, Amanda Grenier, Chris Phillipson ...
    Ageing, meaning and social structure is a unique book advancing critical discourse in gerontology and makes a major contribution to understanding key social and ethical dilemmas facing ageing societies. It confronts and integrates approaches that have been relatively isolated from each other, and interrelates two major streams of thought within critical gerontology: analyses of structural issues ... En savoir plus

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