Care of the Elderly

Essential information for the design of senior living facilities Building Type Basics for Senior Living, Second Edition is your one-stop reference ...

An inciteful ethnography of cross-border elder care workers. The precarious situation in the successor states of Yugoslavia created a specific dyna...

Assisted living is a vital component of long-term care in the United States. In this volume, care providers, researchers, and decision makers from ...

This volume serves to present to interested readers recent developments in microsimulation and public policy. It strings together: selected papers ...

The teacher and gerontological social work scholar Mercedes Bern-Klug joins experts on nursing, law, medicine, sociology, and social work to provid...

Are the elderly posing a threat to America's political system with their enormous clout? Are they stretching resources to the breaking point with t...

This most timely, authoritative, and insightful book provides a new framework for understanding the circumstances currently surrounding America's e...

You may not know the stranger in room six. But they know everything about you.It's been fifteen years since Belinda was convicted of her husband's ...

Writer Pam Houston once summed it up: “Nice mother-daughter stories are a dime a dozen; pain-in-the-ass mother-daughter stories are the ones that g...

Our population is aging. What will we do about it?Due to population explosion and a global increase in average life expectancies, an unprecedentedl...

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Social Work & Geriatric Services examines many facets concerning the care of the elderly. ...

In this timely and authoritative overview on social gerontology and social theory, Chris Phillipson outlines the changing contexts and experiences ...

What are the long term effects of retirement on family relationships? Do personality characteristics or attitudes of one spouse impinge on the othe...

This accessible introduction to key concepts, methods and issues in social gerontological research presents a unique view of the research process b...

Why are the elderly so often perceived as burdensome and unproductive members of our society? Altruism in Later Life explores and refutes this view...

This volume is in part the result of a project originated at the Andrus Gerontology Center at the University of Southern California. Each of five c...

In this timely and authoritative overview on social gerontology and social theory, Chris Phillipson outlines the changing contexts and experiences ...

How does religion influence one′s aging and health? Religion in Aging and Health brings together key scholars and scientists from several fields to...

What are the long term effects of retirement on family relationships? Do personality characteristics or attitudes of one spouse impinge on the othe...

What impact does caring for an elderly parent have on the lives of middle-aged (and sometimes elderly) caregiving offspring? Does a relationship ex...

Who abuses the elderly--and why? How widespread is the problem? Where can victims of elder abuse turn for help? And, what forms of treatment are cu...