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.
Long-Term Care for the Elderly: A Comparative View of Layers of Care
1st Edition
By Betty H. Landsberger
November 03, 2025
In the 1980s the need for long-term care for elderly people in Western societies was quite obvious from the increasing numbers of old and very old people in the population. Countries had responded in a number of different ways to cope with this need. Originally published in 1985, the central theme ...
Old Age in European Society: The Case of France
1st Edition
By Peter N. Stearns
November 03, 2025
Originally published in 1977, Old Age in European Society provides an historical perspective on aging, a process which had received little attention from any group in the social sciences and virtually none from historians at the time. Starting from the premise that ‘the elderly can and should be ...
Old People's Homes and the Production of Welfare
1st Edition
By Bleddyn Davies, Martin Knapp
November 03, 2025
In 1980 old people comprised over half the clients of Local Authority Social Services Departments and accounted for about half of their resources, yet until then residential care of the aged had been a backwater of both research and practice. During the 1970s a large research literature had ...
Old and Alone: A Sociological Study of Old People
1st Edition
By Jeremy Tunstall
November 03, 2025
What is it like to be an isolated old widow, living alone on the bare old-age pension? In the 1960s, the question had become a standard refrain. Originally published in 1966, this was the first full-length study by a sociologist of isolation in old age. Although the majority of old people were in ...
Physical Activity and Aging: Second Edition
1st Edition
By Roy Shephard
November 03, 2025
In the late 1980s, the relationship between physical activity or exercise and aging was one of great contemporary interest. On the one hand there was a growing elderly population in industrialized societies seeking an active rather than a passive retirement, while on the other hand there was much ...
Physiotherapy and the Elderly Patient
1st Edition
By Paul Wagstaff, Davis Coakley
November 03, 2025
Originally published in 1988, the purpose of this book was to introduce the student and practicing physiotherapist to the multi-faceted components of the care and treatment of elderly patients and to present a problem-orientated approach to physiotherapy, assessment and management. Care of the ...
Planning Local Authority Services for the Elderly
1st Edition
By Greta Sumner, Randall Smith
November 03, 2025
In the 1960s, planning the development of services for the elderly was a subject of considerable importance in Britain, both because existing services were known to be inadequate, and because the proportion of older people, especially of those over seventy-five, was expected to increase during the ...
Psychological Approaches to the Care of the Elderly
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Hanley, John Hodge
November 03, 2025
Originally published in 1984, the overall purpose of this book was to provide ideas and suggestions about the usefulness of applied psychology in dealing with some of the problems of the elderly. Although many problems of the elderly are not included, the editors wanted to put forward ideas which ...
Social Gerontology: New Directions
1st Edition
Edited
By Silvana di Gregorio
November 03, 2025
Originally published in 1987, Social Gerontology presents papers from the British Society of Gerontology annual conference held at the University of Glasgow in September 1986. It shows much of the most innovative research and thinking in social gerontology and will interest a wide range of ...
Social Work with Elderly People
1st Edition
By Cherry Rowlings
November 03, 2025
The care of elderly people, particularly those who are frail, is a major task facing society. Originally published in 1981, this book considers the challenge of caring from a social work perspective. It locates social work with elderly people firmly within the mainstream of social work ethics, ...
Social and Medical Problems of the Elderly: Fourth Edition
1st Edition
Edited
By Kenneth Hazell
November 03, 2025
In the 1960s and 1970s doctors were increasingly trained to apply science to the eradication of disease, the accent being on the treatment of disease rather than the true welfare of the patient. This is not the same as dealing with illness and its attendant problems. Originally published in 1976, ...
The Aging Experience
1st Edition
By Cherry Russell
November 03, 2025
Local writing on the subject of old age had tended to a fairly uniform approach, focusing on empirical studies of old age as a social problem using census and survey-type data. Little attention had been paid to theory development. Originally published in 1981, this book provides an in-depth study ...