Routledge Library Editions: Aging
About the Book Series
This 42-volume set has titles originally published between 1960 and 1995. The books examine all aspects of old people in an aging population, from health and physical activity to social care and housing. Providing health, psychological and sociological perspectives, individual titles include common themes such as: bereavement, deterioration of health (both mental and physical), social isolation, social services and care, and the impact these have on elderly people and the people around them, both family and society as a whole.
The Aging Dimension: Perspectives in Behavioral Medicine
1st Edition
Edited
By Matilda White Riley, Joseph D. Matarazzo, Andrew Baum
March 09, 2026
Originally published in 1987, this volume, and the working conference that preceded it, broke new ground in addressing the complex topic of aging, health, and behavior. Taking a bio-behavioral approach to a range of topics, contributors to this book advanced their disciplines. This volume as well ...
Activity, Health and Fitness in Old Age
1st Edition
By Jean A. Macheath
November 03, 2025
Physical activity is a key element in maintaining the independence and quality of life of older people. It is vitally important that those in the caring professions working with the elderly are aware of the capabilities and expectations of older people in this respect. Originally published in 1984,...
Adjustment to Adult Hearing Loss
1st Edition
Edited
By Harold Orlans
November 03, 2025
Originally published in 1985, the chapters in this book were, with two exceptions, first prepared for and discussed at a monthly research seminar series on Hearing Loss in Adulthood during the 1983-1984 academic year. One of the exceptions was included to fill a major gap in the literature dealing ...
Ageing: Recent Advances and Creative Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan Butler
November 03, 2025
Originally published in 1985, Ageing: Recent Advances and Creative Responses contains a selection of the papers contributed to the British Society of Gerontology Annual Conference, held in Leeds in September 1984. The book examines some of the positive and innovative multi-disciplinary work which ...
Ageing and Mental Handicap
1st Edition
By James Hogg, Steve Moss, Diana Cooke
November 03, 2025
In the 1980s there was growing interest in the topic of ageing and learning disabilities, for two principal reasons. First, the life expectancy of people with learning disabilities had risen significantly over the previous decades and many, once infancy had been survived, could expect a life span ...
Ageing in Modern Society: Contemporary Approaches
1st Edition
Edited
By Dorothy Jerrome
November 03, 2025
The twentieth century saw twin developments in Britain: changes in the pattern of employment, producing the institution of retirement; and demographic changes resulting in an ageing population. In the 1980s, these phenomena stimulated interest and concern in political, professional and academic ...
Ageing, Neuropsychology and the 'New' Dementias: Definitions, Explanations and Practical Approaches
1st Edition
By Una Holden
November 03, 2025
Up to the 1990s, the influence of brain function disturbances and causes of dementia in the elderly had mostly been overlooked as a possible explanation for antisocial or unusual behaviour. As a result, these had tended not to be included in assessment and training programmes. Originally published ...
Aging and Health Care: Social Science and Policy Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcia G. Ory, Kathleen Bond
November 03, 2025
Of all the problems associated with a rapidly growing aging population, health care demands top priority. Research on health care for older people requires an understanding of the basic principles of aging and its related social processes, while popular assumptions on the subject are often ...
Caring for Elderly People: Understanding and Practical Help (Third Edition)
1st Edition
By Susan Hooker
November 03, 2025
First published in 1976, Caring for Elderly People rapidly established itself as a standard guide for anyone dealing on a day-to-day basis with the elderly. This updated and revised edition, originally published in 1990, contains information on financial help and services and on the new technology ...
Communication Problems in Elderly People: Practical Approaches to Management
1st Edition
By Rosemary Gravell
November 03, 2025
In the 1980s work with elderly people was making up an increasing proportion of the workload of speech therapists, due to the overall increase in the elderly population. At the same time all health professionals, such as nurses working in long-stay wards or nursing homes, had many elderly patients ...
Daughters Who Care: Daughters Caring for Mothers at Home
1st Edition
By Jane Lewis, Barbara Meredith
November 03, 2025
In the 1980s, as the proportion of elderly people in the population grew steadily larger, the task of looking after them would fall increasingly on one group – daughters. The government, in promoting its move in social policy towards community care, had stated that ‘the family’ – which in practice ...
Day Brought Back My Night: Aging and New Vision Loss
1st Edition
By Stephen Charles Ainlay
November 03, 2025
Originally published in 1989, Day Brought Back My Night explores the lives of people who have lost sight in late life as a result of age-related visual disorders. As life-expectancy in western society has increased, the number of people who fall into this group has grown, yet little had been ...