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.
Domiciliary Services for the Elderly
1st Edition
By Liam Clarke
November 03, 2025
Originally published in 1984, Domiciliary Services for the Elderly looks at the field of elderly care and particularly domiciliary work from the perspective of social services. Starting with the early influences that helped shape the development of Domiciliary Services for elderly people, the ...
Drugs, Ageing and Society: Social and Pharmacological Perspectives
1st Edition
By Bruce Burns, Chris Phillipson
November 03, 2025
During the 1970s and 1980s prescription and over-the-counter drugs had come to play a major role in the health care of older people. Originally published in 1986, this book reviews the historical background to this development and explores its social and pharmacological implications. The main aim ...
Elderly People, Their Medicines, and Their Doctors
1st Edition
By Ann Cartwright, Christopher Smith
November 03, 2025
In the late 1980s, an increasing proportion of all prescribed medicines went to people over 65 years of age, not only because they constituted a growing sector of the population but also because their consumption rate, unlike that of younger people was increasing. This increase was therefore a ...
Establishing a Geriatric Service
1st Edition
Edited
By Davis Coakley
November 03, 2025
By the early 1980s, industrialised countries had experienced a dramatic increase in the number of people who survive into old age. The provision of a high standard of health care for these elderly citizens is one of the major challenges facing health services throughout the world. Originally ...
Facing Retirement: A Guide for the Middle Aged and Elderly
1st Edition
By A Country Doctor
November 03, 2025
Originally published in 1960 and revised in 1964 the blurb for Facing Retirement read: “Mature men and women are not afraid of advancing years. More and more seek to prepare themselves for retirement so that they may then find all the happiness they can. This phase of life is interesting to a ...
Gerontology: Social and Behavioural Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By D. B. Bromley
November 03, 2025
Originally published in 1984, Gerontology: Social and Behavioural Perspectives presents a selection of the contributions from the annual British Society of Gerontology conference, held at the University of Liverpool in 1983. Issues covered include: services for the elderly and their effectiveness, ...
Housing for the Elderly: Planning and Policy Formulation in Western Europe and North America
1st Edition
By Leonard Heumann, Duncan Boldy
November 03, 2025
During the 1970s housing and social welfare policy as it affected the elderly was changing throughout Western society. Conventional high-rise apartments and institutionalized nursing or residential homes were no longer the sole public responses to housing the elderly. In place of these two extremes...
Independence and the Elderly
1st Edition
By Malcolm J. Fisk
November 03, 2025
In the 1980s much research into the needs of the elderly was undertaken from the perspective of a ‘sickness’ model, a model which reinforced labels of elderly people as frail, disabled, dependent and economically unproductive. Few studies adopted a positive attitude to ageing and elderly people. ...
Intellectual Functioning in the Aged
1st Edition
By R. D. Savage, P. G. Britton, N. Bolton, E.H. Hall
November 03, 2025
By the early 1970s the psychology of age had become an extremely important topic in the field. In the present book, originally published in 1973, the authors are particularly concerned with the subject of intellectual functioning. The assessment of intellect in the aged has many important ...
Life After A Death: A Study of the Elderly Widowed
1st Edition
By Ann Bowling, Ann Cartwright
November 03, 2025
The recently widowed experience many complex problems, and an understanding of their needs and the kinds of difficulties they encounter is essential if appropriate services and help are to be mobilized. It is the old who are most likely to be widowed, and they may face this crisis at a time when ...
Life Before Death
1st Edition
By Ann Cartwright, Lisbeth Hockey, John L. Anderson
November 03, 2025
Since death is an experience which will inevitably be common to us all, we are often surprisingly uninterested in what services are provided for those people, often the elderly and infirm, who are at risk or who are on the point of death. Originally published in 1973, this study describes the last ...
Living with Dementia: Community Care of the Elderly Mentally Infirm
1st Edition
By C. J. Gilleard
November 03, 2025
In the early 1980s, it had only recently been appreciated that what was known of the epidemiology of dementia in the elderly living in the community was just the tip of a large iceberg. Originally published in 1984, reissued here with a new preface, this book is concerned with presenting ...