Care of the Elderly

Selected for Reading Well for Dementia 2024: endorsed by health experts, charities and people affected by dementia.'Sometimes, a person's brain get...

The essential guide to managing senior living communitiesnow updated!Senior Living Communities has long been considered the most comprehensive guid...

With contributions from experienced dementia practitioners and care researchers, this book examines the impact of culture and ethnicity on the expe...

The field of geriatric rehabilitation is constantly changing due to the discovery of new evidence-based evaluation and treatment strategies, as wel...

Dementia is a particularly cruel and teasing disease for which there is no known cure. No vaccine... and no escape, once it takes a hold. My book...

When youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Li...

Current social policy recognises that older people should be treated as experts in their own lives and be actively involved in their care. This boo...

Validation is a successful way of communicating with older adults with Alzheimers-type dementia and responding to their challenging behaviors. The ...

As communication skills decline in people with dementia, a supportive environment becomes crucial to a residents ability to express needs and desir...

With the rapid growth of the aging population, the need for geriatric social workers is at an all-time high. This resource for students and practit...

With the rapid growth of the aging population, the need for geriatric social workers is at an all-time high. This resource for students and practit...

Featuring case studies from different regions of the continent (Southern, Central, East and West Africa), this book provides the pan-African eviden...

This book explores specific theories on ageing grounded through examination of several issues in social welfare. The book will review different und...

Should my mum move into a retirement home? Does my dad have dementia? And how on earth can I get my stepmum to give up her car keys? Worries like ...

Praise for the first edition: This is an excellent teaching guide and resource manual for instructors, gerontological nursing students, and pract...

The authors' knowledge of long-term care is obvious and they provide professional perspectives of the challenges and choices long-term care stakeho...

This newest edition of a core graduate level textbook has added six new chapters to further enrich the gerontological imagination, and encourage an...

Assisted Living Administration and Management: Effective Practices and Model Programs in Elder Care 2nd Edition provides students and healthcare pr...

Selected for Reading Well for Dementia 2024: endorsed by health experts, charities and people affected by dementia.Drawing on the author's first-ha...

Advocating for dementia for 20 years, Christine Bryden has been instrumental in ensuring that people with dementia are included in discussions abou...

The second edition of this landmark textbook is distinguished by its pioneering approach to encompassing disability and aging policies under one um...

The first graduate text to address health literacy in the aging population Low health literacy is a critical issue among adults, with over one thi...

This state-of-the-art handbook will keep researchers and practitioners in gerontology abreast of the newest theories and models of aging. With virt...

101+ Careers is rich with useful information. I highly recommend the book for any student, emerging, or re-careering professional exploring their o...

As the twin demographic shifts of population aging and diversity speed forward in America, it is hard to imagine a timelier or more needed work. -...

The editors describe their manuscript as in dialogue with my 2004 volume on filial piety. Much more than just a timely update, this is an excellent...

Winner of the 2022 Memoir Prize for Books - Caregiving categoryESS Public Sociology AwardRecommended Book in Domestic Violence by DomesticShelters....

In Through Japanese Eyes, based on her thirty-year research at a senior center in upstate New York, anthropologist Yohko Tsuji describes old age in...

The book that answers all the questions you hoped youd never have to ask. Hailed as an excellent resource by the Family Caregiver Alliance,How to C...

Selected for Reading Well for Dementia 2024: endorsed by health experts, charities and people affected by dementia.A family-led vision of what care...

Older people are the biggest service user group for social workers and an increasing proportion of the population. In this refreshingly positive an...

Caring for Older People is a timely and welcome addition to the nursing and health-care literature. The book introduces and describes collaborative...

Older people are the biggest service user group for social workers and an increasing proportion of the population. In this refreshingly positive an...