Care of the Elderly

'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman'Wonderful - I can'...

Addresses an Emerging Shift in Developing CountriesThe authors and contributors of Ambient Assisted Living have recognized that the demographic pro...

Older people are, like younger people, citizens in the communities of the nations in which they live. This book sees ageing as a life journey that ...

Japan is aging rapidly, and its government has been groping with the implications of this profound social change. In a pioneering study of postwar ...

Social Work with the Aged and Their Families presents the functional-age model (FAM) of intergenerational treatment, an integrative theoretical fra...

The time has come to further challenge biomedical and clinical thinking about dementia, which has for so long underpinned policy and practice. Fram...

Deficiencies in old age care are some of the most pressing human rights concerns in mature welfare states. This book radically challenges the eth...

As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories and policies aimed at impr...

Focusing on mental health rather than mental illness, this book adopts a lifecourse approach to understanding mental health and wellbeing in later ...