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How does aging affect the interaction between people and their social environment? This intriguing book examines that question from various perspectives, exploring in detail the social and psychological dimensions of the aging process. Drawing on the insights of many disciplines, articles investigate such issues as subjectively evaluated age, facts influencing adjustment, and attitudes, projections, and perceptions of competence.
Helps you recognise the continuity that runs across the generations from grandparents to grandchildren. This work provides a clear perspective on the actual experiences of the lives of our family and friends.
Robert Butler's call for life reviews has exerted a key influence on the way gerontologists have looked at reminiscence and remembering. This work brings together both research and application pieces covering the range of possibilities. It examines controversies and asks: ""Does it work?"" and ""What is the evidence?
Offers a variety of insights into ways of maximizing choice, independence, and well-being, and minimizing the emotional stunting often associated with institutionalization. This book examines both imaginative institutional programs and such alternatives as community maintenance.
Aging is a universal experience, and an individual one. But it is also a cultural phenomenon. This collection draws on research from around the world to explore how cultural context shapes and defines aging process. It examines differing ethnic groups in United States.
The debate over national health insurance has renewed attention on the health and health care utilization of the elderly. This work spans the range of health concerns the elderly face daily, and brings the facts to the fore. It also looks at the central questions facing the elderly into bold relief.
Helps you recognise the continuity that runs across the generations from grandparents to grandchildren. This work provides a clear perspective on the actual experiences of the lives of our family and friends.
In recent years, major forces have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. This book is a comparative analysis of the effect of globalization on the international welfare state. It discusses many countries and includes case studies.
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