Psychology of Ageing

In Intergenerational Contact Zones, Kaplan, Thang, Sánchez, and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerational...

No 1 Bestseller and Irish Book Award Winner! "A profound, important work, simultaneously wise, instructive and a love letter to humanity" Irish Tim...

The Biennial Jake Harwood Outstanding Book Award 2024National Communication Association Communication and Ageing Division, Outstanding Book Award 2...

Aging and Work in the 21st Century, 2nd edition, reviews, summarizes, and integrates existing literature from various disciplines with regard to ag...

This is a seminal study of cultural attitudes to old age among Jews of the medieval Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. Rigorously researched a...

Drawing from philosophy, religion, biology, behavioral and social sciences, and the arts, The Routledge International Handbooks of Multidisciplinar...

'Empathetic, enlightening, deeply human' - Michael Harris, author of SolitudeAn intimate portrait of loneliness, All the Lonely People sees psychol...

Quality Learning for Positive Ageing explores the views of older adult learners to understand the factors that contribute to ‘quality’ in later-lif...

Decline in our physical and mental abilities may be due to injury, illness, or chronic pain, or may simply be the results of normal aging. Sometime...

This text emphasises an interdisciplinary approach to the assessment and treatment of older adults. It highlights a ""whole person"" model of care ...

Declining fertility rates and increased life expectancies over the last few decades have conspired to make China one of the more rapidly aging soci...

The only graduate text to encompass the full range of issues regarding the psychology of aging This is the first graduate-level text that offers a...

Quality Learning for Positive Ageing explores the views of older adult learners to understand the factors that contribute to ‘quality’ in later-lif...

Ethics, Aging and Society...is the first major work in ten years to critically address issues and methodologies in aging and ethics...This well-org...

In this compelling tour of the classical world, Peter Jones reveals how it is the power, scope and fascination of their ideas that makes the Ancien...

As you age, you may find yourself worrying about your memory. Where did I put those car keys? What time was my appointment? What was her name again...

In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age mean today? Spurred by her own brutal propulsion into menopause...

Learn the art of growing old from the supercentenarians living life to the fullest.It's said that life begins at 40 - but that number is constantly...

**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**Congratulations! You have been given about 20 more years to live than your grandparents. But does that just m...

We are now experiencing one of the most significant — but not yet fully understood — revolutions in human life: the dramatic rise in life expectanc...

When children grow up and become adults we often assume, as parents, that our job is done. In fact it's just the beginning of a whole new stage in ...

Ageing is an activity we are familiar with from an early age. In our younger years upcoming birthdays are anticipated with an excitement that somew...

"With great rigour, yet an enviable lightness of touch, Susan Pickard has written an engaging and accessible book that students will love." - Rosa...

We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully combine a...

We are all living longer. The World Health Organisation predicts that by 2050 there will be two billion people over 60 with 434 million of those ov...

‘God’s purpose for us is to show, as we get older, that he gives us his strength and, through our experiences of him, his wisdom,’ says Ian Knox. ‘...

* BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK * 'A joyously life-enhancing book [that] shatters the myths about ageing' Daily Mail Carl Honoré captured the zeitge...

The Aging Mind offers an accessible introduction to what research has revealed about how our bodies and brains age, and how these changes affect ou...

In this revealing and entertaining guide to how the Romans confronted their own mortality, Peter Jones shows us that all the problems associated wi...

Few prejudices in Western society are more powerful than those concerning aging. Until recently, we have assumed that the story of aging is one of ...

A masterpiece of literary craft and concision; sparse, beautiful and hugely affecting - Daily MailSince the liberation of the Netherlands, Emma Ver...

From the Man Booker shortlisted author of Harvest.Alfred Busi, famed in his town for his music and songs, is mourning the recent death of his wife ...