Delivering the first comprehensive analysis of elder justice and its implications for policy and practice, this book offers an approach that ensures the rights, safety, and security of all older adults. It explains the antecedents of elder justice, and describes the opportunities for achieving more comprehensive public policy.
Written for both students and practitioners of gerontology, along with all professionals involved in the well-being of older adults, this highly accessible book provides a current and detailed description and analysis of local to global services for older people with or without cognitive, physical, or social needs.
Men's Health and Aging: Contemporary Issues, Emerging Perspectives, and Future Directions
Focuses on men's health and aging. Cutting-edge chapters discuss the different complex factors that can lead to advancing our understanding on older men's health. The volume is organised in two sections: contemporary issues, and emerging perspectives about men's health and aging.
This timely and critical book takes on a new phenomenon facing the United States and poses the stark question: Will the United States be prepared by 2050, when its older population doubles and we become a majority-minority society? In the authors' response, scholars, policy leaders and the public are provided with the background and information ......
The Comprehensive Resource on Geriatric Health and Social Care
Provides a comprehensive guide to all of the essential elements of elder care across a breadth of health and social service disciplines. Responding to the needs of providers, directcare workers, family, and other caregivers, the diverse array of entries included in this encyclopaedia recognise and address the complex medical, social, and ......
Environments in an Aging Society: Autobiographical Perspectives in Environmental Gerontology
Through the autobiographical perspectives of preeminent researchers and scholars of Environmental Gerontology, this state-of-the-art annual review examines the broad range of topics that comprise this interdisciplinary field. The writings trace the growth and evolution of Environmental Gerontology and provide understanding of, and insights on, the ......
Mild-mannered Myriam is diagnosed with macular degeneration in her right eye, but that doesn’t explain the strange things she’s been seeing: children in bright red helmets dancing on the doctor’s ceiling, exotic vines growing from her television set, and thousands of colored castles forming patterns on her kitchen walls. Her ......
A Global, Evidence-Based Resource for Nurses and Other Healthcare Provid
Provides nurses and healthcare professionals with a comprehensive overview and analysis of self-neglect in older adults. The only text with the latest analysis of theoretical perspectives, research, and evidence from global leaders in the field, chapters tackle the interdisciplinary problem of self-neglect to deliver current professional practice ......
Presents state-of-the-art developments in multiple new technologies for older adult care. Grounded 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.
