Society and Aging Series
Aging, Globalization and Inequality: The New Critical Gerontology
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Baars, Dale Dannefer, Chris Phillipson, Alan Walker
December 07, 2016
This book is a major reassessment of work in the field of critical gerontology, providing a comprehensive survey of issues by a team of contributors drawn from Europe and North America. The book focuses on the variety of ways in which age and ageing are socially constructed, and the extent to which...
The Need for Theory: Critical Approaches to Social Gerontology
1st Edition
By Simon Biggs, Jon Hendricks, Ariela Lowenstein
July 15, 2003
The "Need for Theory" speaks to the burgeoning need for critical thinking in social gerontology. The editors have brought together some of the foremost contributors to theoretical advances in the field. This volume incorporates state-of-the-art theorizing with a focus on selected topical areas ...
Aging Public Policy: Bonding the Generations
2nd Edition
By Theodore H. Hoff, Richard W. Park
June 15, 1999
"Aging Public Policy: Bonding the Generations" is presented in three parts. Part One describes the policy process as a response to human needs through the laws of our country. Part Two explores the national policy development on behalf of older persons. Part Three describes the major public ...
Older Adults with Developmental Disabilities
1st Edition
By Claire Lavin, Kenneth Doka
June 15, 1999
Assesses the needs and lives of the first generation of people with developmental disabilities who have survived into later life. Describes the challenges facing practitioners in gerontology and developmental disabilities to modify programs designed for mid-life adults, and notes that senior ...
Dorian Graying: Is Youth the Only Thing Worth Having?
1st Edition
By Robert Kastenbaum
June 15, 1995
In his latest and perhaps most adventuresome book, Robert Kastenbaum offers a fresh view of the quest for perpetual youth. The focus is on the "pretty monster" that Oscar Wilde created a century ago in "The Picture of Dorian Gray". We see Dorian first within the frame of his own times, responding ...
Surviving Dependence: Voices of African American Elders
1st Edition
By Mary Ball, Frank Whittington
June 15, 1995
To date there has not been a clear look at the home care experience of older African Americans. "Surviving Dependence: Voices of African American Elders" attempts to meet the need for recording and interpreting the ordinary life of elderly African Americans on their own terms, in their own ...
The Old Age Challenge to the Biomedical Model: Paradigm Strain and Health Policy
1st Edition
By Charles F. Longino
June 15, 1995
Central to this book is the idea that the United States is in the midst of a health care crisis, one that will be exacerbated as the population continues to age. Longino and Murphy trace the philosophical and technological development of the biomedical model and show its inadequacy to deal with the...