Care of the Elderly

Discussing key contemporary issues in residential and foster care for children, this theoretically and empirically rich volume draws on new researc...

This unique book represents the first multi-disciplinary examination of ageing, covering everything from basic cell biology, to social participatio...

Social work and social care services should treat older people as citizens with the same humanity and rights as every other citizen. That means ser...

Specialist forms of housing with care are becoming increasingly popular in the United Kingdom, largely as a result of the ageing of the population ...

This new and updated third edition of the best-selling "Calculating a fair price for care" estimates the potential cost to the public sector of pay...

This powerful book analyses the vital dimensions of money, health, place, quality of life and identity, and demonstrates the gaps of treatment and ...

This powerful book analyses the vital dimensions of money, health, place, quality of life and identity, and demonstrates the gaps of treatment and ...

Targeted as the 'grey consumer', people retiring now participated in the creation of the post-war consumer culture.  These consumers have grown old...

Specialist forms of housing with care are becoming increasingly popular in the United Kingdom, largely as a result of the ageing of the population ...

The growing focus on performance review and monitoring means that awareness and use of performance indicators has increased throughout a number of ...

This report explores the current state of end-of-life care policy and practice in the UK. It focuses in particular on the experiences of older peop...

Includes colour illustrations This practical reference draws together the combined expertise of a wide range of health professionals in managing th...

Spousal bereavement seems to be one of the most devastating things a person can suffer through during the course of his or her life and it can resu...

In the first geographic and environmental analysis of the recreational and retirement community industry, Hubert B. Stroud shows how and why certai...

The workings of multi-level governance -- institutional choices concerning centralisation, decentralisation and subsidiarity -- are widely debated ...

This volume provides an in-depth look at the people who staff assisted living facilities, the tasks they perform, and the environments in which the...

Well-Being of Older People in Ageing Societies poses answers to the question of how we can measure and conceptualize the well-being of older people...

This book is about the ways digital technology can contribute to the welfare of older people. The Internet, mobile phones and other technologies ha...

Very little is known about why and when African American elders seek formal long-term care, or about the characteristics of assisted living environ...

Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first ethnography ...

A selection of proceedings from the 2004 Association for Gerontology in Higher Education annual conference Aging Education in a Global Context is a...

In this thought-provoking book, professionals in the field of aging examine the history and concept of the life review. The life review--a theory a...

"Aging in place" is among the newer terms to be included along with "senior citizen," "golden agers," and others in the lexicon of gerontology. Sin...

This series attempts to address the topic of aging from a wide variety of perspectives and to make available some of the best gerontological though...