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  • Vecchi

    Antropologia transgenerazionale

    Con questo saggio Roberto Cheloni aggiunge un altro decisivo tassello alla sua incessante opera di ricerca, condotta dalla sua prima giovinezza attraverso numerose pubblicazioni di natura svariata, spaziando dall’ambito psicoanalitico specialistico a quello giuridico. Nel saggio vengono esposti molti casi clinici che rendono testimonianza della “teoria transgenerazionale”, tramite una narrazione ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Van maakbare naar raakbare zorg

    Over inspiratie en organisatie

    Waardig ouder wordenIntegratie in zorgzame buurtenDuurzaamheidSchaalvergroting en menselijke zorgLeiderschapStervenskunstZorg als passieDe ouderenzorg staat voor gigantische uitdagingen. Daar kunnen we het beste het hoofd aan bieden door een geïnspireerde aanpak, die je toelaat eigenzinnige keuzes te maken. Soms gaan die in tegen de heersende economische logica, maar getuigen ze wel van een ... Read more

    $24.29 USD

  • Using Technology to Improve Care of Older Adults

    Edited by Diane Chau, Thomas Osborne ...
    State-of-the-art developments in multiple new technologies for older adult careGrounded in a unique team-based geriatrics perspective, this book delivers a broad range of current, evidence-based knowledge about innovative technology that has the potential to advance the care and well being of older adults. It provides key information about the development, selection, and implementation of ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Urban Food Deserts in Japan

    Series Book 15 - International Perspectives in Geography
    This book introduces the Japanese urban food desert (FD). Currently, Japan has the most rapidly aging society in the world, with a shrinking population and food desert issues in connection with the isolation of the elderly people from their families and local communities. The types of food deserts that Japan is currently facing are likely to occur in many other countries under similar ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Unveiling New Vistas: A Critique on Indian English Fiction

    This volume showcases various aspects of Indian English fiction spread over more than a hundred years period. There are nineteen papers highlighting the salient features of a variety of fiction. An interview with an eminent Professor known for his poetic, artistic and critical productivity enriches this endeavour with his erudite, pragmatic observations offering new insights. It is hoped that this ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Until the Day We Die

    Jenny and Rudy have had a rich and satisfying life together. But as Rudy's abilities diminish, new challenges arise. Jockie Loomer-Kruger's debut novel takes an unflinching look at resolute love's encounter with dementia, bureaucracy, and unexpected passion, as Jenny struggles to provide a dignified life for her partner despite his best efforts to undermine her. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Unpaid Work in Nursing Homes

    Flexible Boundaries

    Edited by Pat Armstrong ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. The COVID-19 pandemic has made unpaid care more visible through its absence, while also increasing the need for it. Drawing on a range of research projects covering Canada, Germany, Norway, Sweden, the UK and the US, this book documents a broad spectrum of unpaid work performed by residents, relatives, volunteers and staff in nursing ... Read more

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  • Unmasking age

    The significance of age for social research

    by Bill Bytheway ...
    What is age? A simple question but not that easy to answer. 'Unmasking Age' addresses it using data from a series of research projects relating to later life. This is supplemented by material from a range of other sources including diaries and fiction. Drawing on a long career in social research, Bill Bytheway critically examines various methods and discusses ways of uncovering the realities of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • University-Linked Retirement Communities

    Student Visions of Eldercare

    University-Linked Retirement Communities focuses on the special attributes of a retirement community designed as an integral part of a university. It discusses the theoretical and practical aspects of such a retirement community, which provides a rich and varied context for older people to be exposed to new ideas and learning opportunities for personal growth.The book centers on the premise that ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • Ungeschönt

    Alt werden war auch schon mal schlimmer …

    by Sky du Mont ...
    Sky du Mont erzählt übers Älterwerden. Dabei geht es um die schönen Seiten des Alters und die Zumutungen ebenso wie um die Kunst, würdevoll und heiter durch die letzte Lebensphase zu gehen. Nach mehreren Romanen mit fiktivem Alter Ego ist dieses autobiograpische Buch das bislang persönlichste Werk des Autors. Ein Buch, das nicht nur für die Älteren geschrieben ist, sondern auch für die jetzt noch ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Unerhört! Improvisieren mit alten Menschen oder Die Frage nach dem 'Ungehörten' als 'Via Regia' in der musiktherapeutischen Altenarbeit

    Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Gerontologie / Alterswissenschaften, Note: 1,0, Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien (Institut für Musik- und Bewegungserziehung sowie Musiktherapie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die steigende Lebenserwartung bringt neben demographischen Umschichtungen und sozialpolitischen Herausforderungen auch vielfache Konsequenzen für die ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Unequal ageing

    The untold story of exclusion in old age

    Edited by Paul Cann, Malcolm Dean ...
    This powerful book analyses the vital dimensions of money, health, place, quality of life and identity, and demonstrates the gaps of treatment and outcomes between older and younger people, and between different groups of older people. Written by leading experts in the field, it provides strong evidence of the scale of current disadvantage in the UK and suggests actions that could begin to change ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Une prescription sur mesure

    Moins mais mieux sied au grand âge

    by Collectif ...
    Series series Sâges/Monographies de la Chaire de médecine générale de l'UCL
    Si, en médecine, nos maîtres nous ont appris que l’enfant n’est pas un adulte en miniature, une règle similaire peut s’appliquer à la prescription de traitements multiples à la personne âgée. Pourtant, la polypathologie du quatrième âge place souvent les guidelines en conflit et peut amener le médecin à réduire drastiquement la prise de médications réputées utiles pour éviter un non-sens absolu. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Understanding Aging and Diversity

    Theories and Concepts

    by Patricia Kolb ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    The demographic phenomena of increased life expectancy, increasing global population of older adults, and a larger number of older people as a proportion of the total population in nations throughout the world will affect our lives and the life of each person we know. The changes will result in challenges and benefits for societies and people of all ages. These events need to be understood, ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Understanding 'Sectarianism'

    Sunni-Shi'a Relations in the Modern Arab World

    by Fanar Haddad ...
    "Sectarianism" is one of the most over-discussed yet under-analyzed concepts in debates about the Middle East. Despite the deluge of commentary, there is no agreement on what "sectarianism" is. Is it a social issue, one of dogmatic incompatibility, a historic one or one purely related to modern power politics? Is it something innately felt or politically imposed? Is it a product of modernity or ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Un robot contre Alzheimer

    Approche sociologique de l'usage du robot PARO dans un service de gériatrie

    Series series Interventions
    La perte de mémoire est une souffrance pour les malades, mais aussi pour leurs proches. Si celle-ci est irréversible, on peut toutefois en atténuer les conséquences par la présence, la discussion, l'intérêt porté aux patients.Un robot dit social peut-il être une aide dans ce processus ? En enquêtant dans des services gériatriques, Cécile Dolbeau-Bandin montre que la juste place d'un tel objet n ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Umwelten des Alterns

    Wohnen, Mobilität, Technik und Medien

    Wie leben ältere Menschen in und mit Umwelten, die sich immer rascher und komplexer entwickeln? Was haben dabei Lieblingsplätze, Wohngemeinschaften, die Autonutzung, Pflegeroboter und das Internet gemeinsam? Das Buch gibt anschaulich und wissenschaftlich fundiert Antwort auf diese und weitere Fragen. Speziell die Themenfelder Wohnen, Mobilität, Technik und Medien werden in ihrer sich ergänzenden ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Two Old Broads

    Stuff You Need to Know That You Didn’t Know You Needed to Know

    Written by renowned surgeon and expert on the art of aging, Dr. M.E. Hecht, with her friend Whoopi Goldberg lending her unique point of view, Two Old Broads is laugh out loud funny and?tells it like it is for all of us who left middle age in the dust and want to be present, positive, and as extraordinary as ever in our golden years.Whoopi joins Dr. Hecht in a lively conversation about growing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Twenty-Five Years of the Life Review

    Theoretical and Practical Considerations

    by Robert Disch ...
    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 about the nature of the life cycle first presented in 1962--has become a foundation for program development with the elderly. This unique analysis of the life review goes beyond the early formulation both in theory and practice. Critics of the life ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Troubling Inheritances

    Memory, Music, and Aging

    This book provides an interdisciplinary focus on music, memory, and ageing by examining how they intersect outside of a formal therapeutic context or framework and by offering a counter-narrative to age as decline. It contributes to the development of qualitative research methodologies by utilizing and reflecting on methods for studying music, memory, and ageing across diverse and interconnected ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Trauer und Demenz

    Trauerbegleitung als verstehender Zugang und heilsame Zuwendung

    Series series Edition Leidfaden – Begleiten bei Krisen, Leid, Trauer
    Menschen mit Demenz sind in den letzten Jahren ihres Lebens von vielfältigen Abschieden und Verlusten betroffen, wobei ihr dementierendes Verhalten und Erleben und die gesellschaftliche Reaktion darauf für sie selbst und ihre Zugehörigen eine wesentliche Quelle von Trauer sind. Demenz unter dem Blick der Trauer zu betrachten eröffnet einen hilfreichen Zugang. Viele Emotionen und Verhaltensweisen ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transport, Travel and Later Life

    Series Book 10 - Transport and Sustainability
    This book, set within a social gerontology and transport behaviour studies paradigm, examines current debates and issues around transport for older people and its relationship to health and wellbeing for individuals and society as a whole.This timely title explores transport and travel needs and motivations of older people, barriers older people face using public and community transport, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Transnational Migration and Home in Older Age

    Edited by Katie Walsh, Lena Näre ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    This book examines the transformations in home lives arising in later life and resulting from global migrations. It provides insight into the ways in which contemporary demographic processes of aging and migration shape the meaning, experience and making of home for those in older age. Chapters explore how home is negotiated in relation to possibilities for return to the "homeland," family ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work

    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin ... Read more

    $24.99 USD