Presents research showing how the eighty-five and older are adapting to the daily challenges of advanced age. This work also examines what competencies people in this group need to survive and continue living within the larger community, and addresses the topics of health and physical status, family and social relationships, and quality of life.
Reviews information about how older adults successfully experience the aging process and how they feel about and live with chronic illnesses. Questions considered include: How do older adults approach and deal with everyday-life when affected by multiple health problems? And more.
Back in Print!Why Survive? Being Old in America was one of the earliest books to bring to public attention the plight of elderly persons in the United States. It looks at prevailing attitudes toward aging (Library Journal credits Robert Butler with coining the term ageism) as well as the economic and medical needs of elderly citizens. JHUP is ......
Theoretical and Research Studies into the Experience of Remediable and Enduring Cognitive Losses
Based on the findings of in-depth research and on the author's long-standing experience of working with people with dementia, this ground-breaking book provides fresh perspectives and ideas for policy and practice. In the first part of this extensively referenced and up-to-date book, Michael Bender examines the scientific status of the terms ......
At a theoretical level, this text draws on core concepts in gerontology - age, dependency, social support and the quality of life - to illustrate their complexity and the difficulties of measurement. On a practical level, the text presents a number of methodological approaches which have been particularly useful in social gerontological research. The contributors, all social scientists, draw on their considerable experience of research and evaluation practice to comment on the problems and advantages that they have encountered. Finally, the contributors consider three critical issues - whether old people require special ethical consideration; the prospects for funding; and the importance of disseminating research effectively. "Researching Social Gerontology" has been specially commissioned by the British Society for Gerontology to outline current thinking in conceptual and methodological development, and the context in which gerontological research is being carried out.
Few families are untouched by Alzheimer's disease or a related dementia. Moving accounts of what it is like to care for someone with this disease have already been published, as well as how-to books that offer caregivers advice and information on coping. But this book is the first to provide a comprehensive report of what it is like to have ......
Ethnic minorities represent a growing percentage of the elderly population in the United States. Yet, the impact of aging on minority groups and subgroups has only been partially studied. Minorities, Aging and Health fills the gap and opens the debate on how to provide for the specific needs of an increasingly elderly population. Specific issues covered in this volume include: mortality and life expectancy; the incidence of chronic disease and disabilities; diet and nutrition; mental health; access to health services and long-term care; and public health-care policy.
Needs, Practices, and Policies in Residential Care for the Elderly
With the number of elderly persons needing long-term care expected to double to 14 million over the next two decades, assisted living has become the popular choice for housing or care. Assisted living represents a promising model of long-term care that blurs the sharp distinction between nursing homes and community-based care and reduces the gap ......
People with dementia have often played a passive role in the investigation of their condition. The contributors to this book look at ways of redressing the balance and involving them in the research process. They describe the skills that researchers and care staff need, and the methods they can use, when seeking to draw out and validate the views ......
