Age groups: the elderly / old age Books
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Alternde Gesellschaft im Wandel: Zur Gestaltung
Book SynopsisDas Buch untersucht die inhaltlichen und strukturellen Herausforderungen, vor der unsere Gesellschaft angesichts einer stetig steigenden Lebenserwartung und einer zunehmenden Vielfalt unterschiedlicher Lebensentwürfe steht. Sind wir vorbereitet auf die Bedürfnisse einer alternden Bevölkerung? Wie sollen wir auf den demografischen Wandel reagieren, um ein würdevolles Altern sicherzustellen? Wie müssen wir die unterschiedlichen Lebensbereiche wie Arbeitswelt, Gesundheitsversorgung, Wohnen und Kultur gestalten und anpassen, um den veränderten Lebensläufen gerecht zu werden? Entlang der Dimensionen Alterung, Diversität und Technisierung widmen sich in diesem Band Experten aus Medizin, Ethik, Recht, Sozialwissenschaften, Pädagogik, Kunstgeschichte und Gerontologie Möglichkeiten und Bedingungen des ‚guten Alterns‘ in einer Gesellschaft des langen Lebens.Table of ContentsTeil I Alterung als soziale Herausforderung.- Teil II Diversität der Alterswahrnehmung.- Teil III Alternde Menschen zwischen Pluralisierung und Technisierung.
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Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Aging: Asian Concepts and Experiences. Past and
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Books on Demand Balanceakt: Pflegende Angehörige zwischen Liebe,
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Books on Demand Die Weihnachtshexe La Befana: Märchen für das
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Schwabe Schone Aussichten!: Uber Lebenskunst Im Hohen
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Lit Verlag Class Dynamics in Later Life: Older Persons,
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VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K. Values and Well-being in the Retirement Transition
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Transcript Verlag The Ages of Life: Living and Aging in Conflict?
Book SynopsisThe binary construction of "young" and "old", which is based on a biogerontological model of aging as decline, can be redefined as the ambiguity of aging from a cultural studies perspective. This concept enables an analysis of the social functions of images of aging with the aim of providing a basis for interdisciplinary exchange on gerontological research. The articles in this publication conceive the relationship between living and aging as a productive antagonism which focuses on the interplay between continuity and change as a marker of life course identity: aging and growing older are processes which cannot be reduced to the chronology of years but which are shaped by the individual's interaction with the changing circumstances of life.
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Transcript Verlag Alive and Kicking at All Ages: Cultural
Book SynopsisThe linking of age and ill-health is part of a cultural narrative of decline as age is often defined as the absence of good health. Research has shown that we are aged by culture, but we are also culturally made ill when we age. The cultural ambiguity of aging can thus deconstruct negative images of old age as physical decrepitude. This volume investigates the topic of health within the matrix of time and experience by addressing issues such as how our understanding of health influences our notion of agency within a subversive deconstruction of normative age concepts, and what role the notion of health plays in such an interaction.
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Transcript Verlag Ageing and Technology: Perspectives from the
Book SynopsisThe booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous aspects. In current debates on technology, however, the "human factor" is often largely ignored. The ageing individual is rather seen as a malfunctioning machine whose deficiencies must be diagnosed or as a set of limitations to be overcome by means of technological devices. This volume aims at focusing on the perspective of human beings deriving from the development and use of technology: this change of perspective - taking the human being and not technology first - may help us to become more sensitive to the ambivalences involved in the interaction between humans and technology, as well as to adapt technologies to the people that created the need for its existence, thus contributing to improve the quality of life of senior citizens.
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Transcript Verlag Serializing Age: Aging and Old Age in TV Series
Book SynopsisSerialized storytelling provides intriguing opportunities for critical representations of age and aging. In contrast to the finite character of films, television narratives can unfold across hundreds of episodes and multiple seasons. Contemporary viewing practices and new media technologies have resulted in complex television narratives, in which experimental temporalities and revisions of narrative linearity and chronological time have become key features. As the first of its kind, this volume investigates how TV series as a powerful cultural medium shape representations of age and aging, such as in "Orange Is The New Black", "The Wire" or "Desperate Housewives", to understand what it means to live in time.Trade Review"The book can thus be read as a first step in this direction, and it clearly outlines the desiderata to be dealt with in future studies." Andreas Hudelist, www.theaterforschung.de, 08.04.2016
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Transcript Verlag Traces of Aging: Old Age and Memory in
Book SynopsisThis collection consists of eight essays that examine the way narratives determine our understanding of old age and condition how the experience is lived. Contributors to this volume have based their analysis on the concept of "narrative identity" developed by Paul Ricoeur, built upon the idea that fiction makes life, and on his definition of "trace" as the mark of time. By investigating the traces of aging imprinted in a series of literary and filmic works they dismantle the narrative of old age as decline and foreclosure to assemble one of transformation and growth.
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Transcript Verlag Senior Tourism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on
Book SynopsisThis volume aims to bridge the disciplinary gap between tourism studies and aging studies. It investigates the intersections of tourism and aging from a variety of perspectives that focus on the many ways in which senior tourism is socially constructed and/or individually experienced. The essays tackle key topics ranging from the socio-economic aspects of post-retirement travel to the representations of the traveling elderly in literature, film and media, and the influence of travel on late-life creativity.
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Transcript Verlag Dancing Age(ing) – Rethinking Age(ing) in and
Book SynopsisHow can contemporary dance contribute to a critical discourse on age and ageing? Built on the premise that age(ing) is something we practice and perform as individuals and as a society, Susanne Martin asks for and develops strategies that allow dance artists to do age(ing) differently. As a whole, this project is an artistic research inquiry, which draws on and contributes to dance practice. The study develops, discusses, and stages practices and performances of age(ing) that offer alternatives to stereotypical and normative age(ing) narratives, which are not only part of dance but also of everyday culture.
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Transcript Verlag Sweet Home Chicago? – Mexican Migration and the
Book SynopsisBased on long-term ethnographic fieldwork among older Mexican migrants in Chicago, Franziska Bedorf investigates the phenomenon of return migration by tracing how people's intentions to go back change over time. Considering global labour mobility, she examines transformations of belonging and the wider economic, political, social and cultural frameworks that shape them. Against the backdrop of debates on integration, transnationalism and belonging, the study explores why migrants keep and form attachments to and detachments from places, people and cultures.
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Transcript Verlag Embodied Narration – Illness, Death, and Dying in
Book SynopsisDo liminal embodied experiences such as illness, death and dying affect literary form? In recent years, the concept of embodiment has been theorized from various perspectives. Gender studies have been concerned with the cultural implications of embodiment, arguing to move away from viewing the body as a prediscursive phenomenon to regarding it as an acculturated body. Age studies have extended this view to the embodied experience of ageing, while drawing attention to the ways in which the ageing body, through its materiality and plasticity, restricts the possibilities of (de)constructing subjectivity. These current debates on embodiment find a strong counterpart in literary representation. The contributions to this anthology investigate how and to what extend physical borderline experiences affect literary form.Trade Review"Each of the articles that compose the collection invites the readers into a nuanced analysis of protagonists who live through intense pain and illness, highlighting the potentialities of language as well as the contradictions that arise inside the same protagonists between their failing bodies, their selves and societys expectations." Maricel Or-Piqueras, Ageculturehumanities, 5(2020)
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Transcript Verlag Re–discovering Age(ing) – Narratives of
Book SynopsisSince Mentor, Telemachus' advisor in Homer's Odyssey, gave name to the figure of the "wise teacher," fictional representations of mentoring have permeated classic and contemporary cultural texts of different literary genres such as fiction, poetry, and life writing. The contributions of this volume explore wisdom in old age through a series of narratives of mentorship which, either from a critical or a personal perspective, undermine ageist views of later life.
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Transcript Verlag Imagining Ageing – Representations of Age and
Book SynopsisWhat do literary texts tell us about growing old? The essays in this volume introduce and explore representations of ageing and old age in canonical works of English and postcolonial literature. The contributors examine texts by William Shakespeare, Daniel Defoe, Julian Barnes, Thomas Kinsella, Seamus Heaney, J.M. Coetzee, Alice Munro, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace and, together with a medical study, they suggest solutions to the challenges arising from the current demographic change brought about by ageing Western populations.
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Transcript Verlag Foreign Countries of Old Age – East and Southeast
Book SynopsisThe exploration of what May Sarton calls the "foreign country of old age" usually does not go far beyond the familiar: the focus of aging studies has thus far clearly rested upon North America and Western Europe. This multi-disciplinary essay collection critically examines conditions and representations of old age and aging in Eastern and Southeastern Europe from various perspectives of the humanities and social sciences. By shedding light on these culturally specific contexts, the contributions widen our understanding of the aging process in all its diversity and demonstrate that a shift in perspectives might in fact challenge a number of taken-for-granted positions and presumptions of aging studies.
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Transcript Verlag Empowering the Elderly? – How Help to Self–Help
Book SynopsisHealth programmes that offer "help to self-help" are meant to empower ageing adults to remain independent and self-sufficient at home for as long as possible. But what happens when the private home becomes a political realm in which state intervention and individual agency happen simultaneously? Based on 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a Danish municipality, Amy Clotworthy describes how both health professionals and elderly citizens negotiate the political discourses about health and ageing that frame their relational encounter. By elucidating some of the conflicts, paradoxes, and negotiations that occur, she provides important insights into the contemporary organisation of eldercare.
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Transcript Verlag Gender and Age/Aging in Popular Culture:
Book SynopsisAs social spaces are culturally diverse and digitally networked, the reality of our lives is shaped by processes of globalization and digitization. This leads to the question of whether popular cultures enable or impede (inter-)cultural exchange and global communication. To explore this, the contributors to this volume analyse representations of the intersections of gender and age/ing in cultural and media consumption, such as literature, film, music, and social media. The interconnectedness between gender and aging has been evident since the 1990s and enabled the recognition of age as a cultural category - now is the time to take this intersectional analysis further.
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Transcript Verlag Extraordinary Forms of Aging: Life Narratives of
Book SynopsisWhile aging and the life-course appear to be normalized processes, the complex construction of age at the intersection of biology, society, and culture remains opaque. This study contributes to a deeper understanding of age(ing) by exploring its construction through the analysis of extraordinary cases. Focusing on life narratives of centenarians and children with progeria, Julia Velten analyzes the way in which these people experience age(ing) and shows how these experiences can contribute to our understanding of age. Situated at the intersection of aging studies and medical humanities, the study explores what extraordinary age(ing) can tell us about aging processes in general.
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Transcript Verlag Aging Experiments: Futures and Fantasies of Old
Book SynopsisThe sustained expansion of the life span and the attendant demographic changes in the West have fuelled the production of cultural texts that explore alternative representations of aging and old age. The contributors to this volume show how artists in science-fiction, fantasy and the avant-garde develop visions of late life transformation, improvisation and adaptation to new circumstances. The studies particularly focus on perspectives on aging that challenge the predominant narratives of decline as well as fantasies of eternal youth, as defined by neoliberal notions of health, able-bodiedness, agency, self-improvement, progress, plasticity and productivity.
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transcript Verlag Masculinities Ageing between Cultures
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V&R unipress GmbH The European Union Social Policy on Older People
Book SynopsisAgeing Europe, social policy on older people, deinstitutionalization the social services, social farming
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Verlag Barbara Budrich Health Among the Elderly in Germany: New Evidence
Book SynopsisWhether increasing life expectancy leads to better health remains still controversial. Three topics are explored: (1) vanguard groups which inform about possible levels of health if the general social and environmental conditions were to approach those of the vanguard group; (2) the social and behavioral determinants of health differentiated into proximal and distal factors; (3) vulnerable groups such as migrants and the health differences between migrant groups. Newly available population-based data as well as new study designs and advanced stati¬stical modelling form the basis for the empirical analyses.Trade ReviewDie in diesem Band versammelten Ergebnisse zeigen deutlich, dass die Gesundheitspolitik sich insbesondere um die Bewohner ländlicher Gebiete kümmern muss, denn Spezialisten sind dort rar gesät. Außerdem müssen weniger gut gestellte Bevölkerungsgruppen sowie Migranten stärker in den Fokus rücken. Nur so können im demografischen Wandel mehr Menschen als bisher von der Tendenz zur Verschiebung alterstypischer Erkrankungen ins höhere Alter profitieren. Newsletter Demos 2/2015 Aus welchen Gründen leben manche Menschen länger und gesünder und andere nicht? Welche Einflüsse und Faktoren wirken sich auf ein langes Leben und den Gesundheitszustand aus? Gibt es Unterschiede bei der Lebenserwartung und dem Gesundheitsstatus im Vergleich zwischen Deutschen und Migranten und warum? Diese Fragen stehen im Zentrum des Bandes, der einen Beitrag zur Diskussion über Trends und Muster der Gesundheit Älterer in Deutschland liefern möchte. Bevölkerungsforschung Aktuell 6/2014 Basierend auf neueren Daten und innovativen Forschungsdesigns wird der folgenden Frage nachgegangen: Which reasons make some people live longer and healthier and which do not? Socialnet.de, 07.05.2014Table of ContentsFrom the Contents: Welfare State and Disability. The relationship between stroke and disability depends on the health care system Spatial Patterns of Dementia Prevalence and its Vascular Risk Factors in Germany Does Education Matter for Incidence and Prevalence in Long-term Care Among the Elderly in Germany? Evidence from German Micro Census Panel data (2001-2004) Spatial Patterns in German Long-term Care and their Relationship with Socioeconomic Factors Mental Health Among Immigrants. Is there a disadvantage in later life?
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Rawat Studies in Gerontology
Book SynopsisThe changing structures of societies, patterns of family interdependence, family and kin structures, dempgraphic, social and economic trends have affected the relationship between generations accross the world.
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Koan El Arte de Envejecer
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University Press of Southern Denmark Development of Oldest-Old Mortality, 1950-1990:
Book SynopsisThis volume by Väino Kannisto, former United Nations advisor on demographic and social statistics, is the first in the Odense Monographs on Population Aging. It is fitting that Kannisto is the first author because the core set of data that built up to establishing the series, was assembled, tested for quality, and converted into cohort mortality histories by him. These data, which pertain to death counts and population counts by years of age, year of birth, and current year over the last four decades or in some thirty countries, permit estimation of death rates after age 80. Kannisto shows in this first volume that in developed countries since 1950 death rates among octogenarians, nonagenarians, and even centenrians have been reduced substantially. The novelty and magnitude of the observed mortality decline justify it being called a new stage in mortality transition. The pace of mortality improvement has accelerated in most countries since 1950. Kannisto concludes that the new transition may, barring unforeseen events, still continue for an extended period.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Exceptional Longevity: From Prehistory to the
Book SynopsisThe storied realms of exceptional longevity are scrutinised in this volume. The vast majority of reputed centenarians in the past, and most countries even today, lived less than 100 years. On the other hand, the number of genuine long-livers is exploding and a substantial proportion of current new-borns in developed countries may survive to celebrate their 100th birthday. Extremely few of our grandparents endured a century but centenarians may be commonplace among our grandchildren. This volume explains and documents these assertions, with research that melds judicious scepticism and painstaking scholarship with intellectual excitement about the advancing frontier of survival.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Advancing Frontier of Survival
Book SynopsisThis volume is an additional contribution to the description of the mortality of the oldest-old in the post-war era, begun with volume 1 by the same author. While the first publication was essentially a time series studies, the present one is a life table analysis of the same countries in the same period, less precise on timing and more sharply focused on age. Instead of annual fluctuations in 5-year or broader age groups, dealt with in the former, the present study examines mortality by single years of age. To do it successfully, the data are combined into 10-year periods in order to secure meaningful numbers of observations at ages where they are few. This has, in fact, allowed calculation of fairly robust death rates up to age 109 for an aggregate of several countries.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Childhood & Old Age: Equals or Opposites?
Book SynopsisWho hasn''t heard of elderly people in their second childhood -- or of children who grow old before their time? Expressions such as these bear witness to the fact that a variety of images and expectations attach themselves to biological age. When various ages are set side by side in contrast to each other, these images and expectations become apparent. Childhood and old Age lies at opposite ends of life''s trajectory and so are quite distinct. The child finds itself at life''s starting-point, the old person at its close. And yet there are in many areas more similarities than differences. Both children and old people live an institutionalised, economically unproductive and sheltered life and, in our late modern society, are completely dependent on middle-aged adults. Both age groups are objects of commercial, medical-scientific and pedagogical interest. The aim of this anthology is to confront expectations of childhood with expectations of old age. The focus is not, then, on age as a biological phenomenon, but on preconceptions of age and on the ways in which man, at different times and in different cultures, has dealt with age. The articles view their subject from both historical and contemporary standpoints, and there is an attempt to answer questions about age in the society of the future, where biological lifespans will be challenged by gene technology and improved living conditions.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Mechanisms of Aging & Mortality: The Search for
Book SynopsisThis monograph reviews the epidemiological, demographic, and biological basis of population models of human mortality. These investigations were motivated by the desire to better understand the regularities of survival processes among adults -- especially at extreme late ages where empirical data is currently limited. The monograph discusses biological mechanisms, which shape the age-patterns of mortality. The effects of an individual health state, susceptibility to diseases and death, or physical frailty on changes in late age survival are also investigated.
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Bohn,Scheltema & Holkema,The Netherlands In Mijn Koffer Op Zolder: Levensverhalen Van
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Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum Dementie: Van Hersenlagen Tot Omgangsvragen
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United Nations A sustainable world for all ages: joining forces
Book SynopsisThis publication will document the fourth cycle review and appraisal of the implementation of the Madrid International Plan of Action and its Regional Implementation Strategy (MIPAA/RIS, 2002) in UNECE member States between 2017 and 2022. The regional review will conclude with the 5th UNECE Ministerial Conference on Ageing to be held in Rome, Italy, in May 2022 (tbc). The Conference Proceedings aim to support the work done by policy makers, researchers, and civil society by providing an overview of where we stand today and of the challenges that need attention
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United Nations World population ageing 2019 highlights
Book SynopsisDrawing on the 2019 revision of World Population Prospects, the World Population Ageing 2019 (Highlights) document global and regional trends in population ageing, including consideration of the implications of these trends for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. The report also presents various concepts and indicators related to population ageing and discusses related fiscal and economic implications.
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Anthem Press Institutional Provisions and Care for the Aged
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Singapore Ageing: Issues And Challenges Ahead
Book SynopsisAgeing is a part of life that all Singaporeans must face and, in fact, all families will have next of kins who will undergo that life stage. Singapore Ageing assembles a team of researchers, administrators, practitioners, advocates and academics from varied social service and care sectors, to share their thoughts, concerns and future challenges faced by an ageing Singapore in different arenas.With the Singapore demography showing a greying trend, it is increasingly vital for the government and the social, health and economic sectors to meet the needs of an ageing nation. The appropriate services and support have to be in place to respond to the issues faced by seniors. This edited volume serves as a useful resource for those who are working or researching in the field of ageing.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Singapore Ageing: Issues And Challenges Ahead
Book SynopsisAgeing is a part of life that all Singaporeans must face and, in fact, all families will have next of kins who will undergo that life stage. Singapore Ageing assembles a team of researchers, administrators, practitioners, advocates and academics from varied social service and care sectors, to share their thoughts, concerns and future challenges faced by an ageing Singapore in different arenas.With the Singapore demography showing a greying trend, it is increasingly vital for the government and the social, health and economic sectors to meet the needs of an ageing nation. The appropriate services and support have to be in place to respond to the issues faced by seniors. This edited volume serves as a useful resource for those who are working or researching in the field of ageing.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Health and Wellbeing in Late Life: Perspectives and Narratives from India
Book SynopsisThis open access book takes a multidisciplinary approach to provide a holistic understanding of late old age, and situates the aged person within the context of family, caregivers, clinical and other institutions. All through the book, the author discusses preparedness for an aging individual as well as the society in the Indian context. The book highlights inevitable but mostly neglected health issues like depression, dementia, fall, and frailty and provides detailed analyses of solutions that are practicable in low resource settings. It also brings up intergenerational differences and harmony in the context of holistic care of older Indians. Alongside clinical perspectives, the book uses narratives of elderly patients to dwell on the myriad of problems and issues that constitute old age healthcare. Demonstrating cases that range from the most influential to the most underprivileged elderly in India, the book enlightens multiple caregivers—doctors, nurses, and professional caregivers as well as family members—about the dynamic approach required in dealing with complex issues related to late old age. The narratives make the book relatable and interesting to non-academic readers, with important lessons for gerontological and geriatric caregiving. It is also of use to older adults in preparing for active aging. Table of Contents1. Understanding Frailty: The Science and Beyond.- 2. Living with Failing Memory: From a Caregiver’s Perspective.- 3. Panorama of Cancer.- 4. Meaningful Engagement: An Option or Not.- 5. Constipation: Much more than a Symptom.- 6. Fall: A Geriatric Syndrome with Endless Agony.- 7. Stroke, Premorbid Status and Resilience.- 8. Discussion about Sexual Health: Is it Age Inappropriate?.- 9. Treat or Not to Treat.- 10. Successful Ageing: An Opportunity and Responsibility for All.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Education for the Elderly in the Asia Pacific
Book SynopsisIn many countries across the Asia Pacific region, people are adapting to the new demographic shift, but there is nonetheless much concern. This book documents the various educational approaches rendered by both public and private sectors to enable elderly individuals in their own countries to re-engage in society more inclusively, to stay longer in the labour market, and to become less dependent on the state or their families. In order to produce active, healthy, and productive aging citizens, the experiments showcased by this book highlight how adaptive action is needed across many policy areas, with emphasis on shaping structural differences in the composition and organisation of higher education systems that can better foster lifelong learning among elderly citizens. The book is a great venue to underline the interplay of the theory and practices of vastly complex challenges.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Perspectives on Elderly Life-Long Learning in Asia Pacific Region.- Chapter 2 Aging in Thailand: Critical Issues in the 21st Century.- Chapter 3 Community-based Support System for the Aged: Case of Kobe City.- Chapter 4 Education Issues for Elderly Persons in Korea.- Chapter 5 Is there an Elderly’s Learning Paradigm Shift in Asia-Pacific Region?.- Chapter 6 Manpower Planning and Lifelong Learning in Singapore: Implications for Older Workers.- Chapter 7 Equity in Health Services for Ageing.- Chapter 8 Lifelong Learning for Senior Citizens in Thailand.- Chapter 9 Active later life learners, sustainability advocacy and the emerging global role of seniors as 21st Century ‘tribal elders’.- Chapter 10 The Development and Implementation of Senior Learning Program in Taiwan and Some Reflections.- Chapter 11 Repeating successful Silver College Through Elderly Empowerment in Indonesia.- Chapter 12 Life-Long Learning in Hong Kong.- Chapter 13 Concluding Chapter – Holistic Approaches for Elderly Life-Long Learning in the Asia Pacific Region and Future Directions.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Silver Shades Of Grey: Memos For Successful
Book SynopsisAre you a young person? Middle-aged? Old? It doesn't really matter. Each of us grows older every second. Most of us age without taking charge of our life course, without a plan for our ageing. Each dip into these short chapters offers some operating instructions for life, a guide to engaging passionately with age.Dealing with a plethora of subjects, such as health, happiness, loneliness, dementia, sex, gender, marriage, abuse, respect, wage, wealth, class, and care, the book touches on how ageing affects us as individuals and as a society. Through this, myths and misconceptions on ageing are explored, urging us to rethink attitudes and policies on ageing and ageing populations.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Silver Shades Of Grey: Memos For Successful
Book SynopsisAre you a young person? Middle-aged? Old? It doesn't really matter. Each of us grows older every second. Most of us age without taking charge of our life course, without a plan for our ageing. Each dip into these short chapters offers some operating instructions for life, a guide to engaging passionately with age.Dealing with a plethora of subjects, such as health, happiness, loneliness, dementia, sex, gender, marriage, abuse, respect, wage, wealth, class, and care, the book touches on how ageing affects us as individuals and as a society. Through this, myths and misconceptions on ageing are explored, urging us to rethink attitudes and policies on ageing and ageing populations.
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Academic Studies Press The Practice of Concern
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Susan Schadt Press, LLC Beyond Beyond: A Chance Encounter, a Digital
Book SynopsisFeatured in THE BOSTON GLOBE'S Love Letters + INSIDER.COM + NEWS NATION You are never too old and it's never too late....Beyond Beyond is today's version of 84, Charing Cross Road, via months of email correspondence chronicling the joys of living into one’s 80s and beyond.The unlikely and extraordinary second-chance and real-life love story of Roz and Ralph, both 80-plus years old and living some 1,500 miles apart, Ralph in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Roz in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, is told through months of rich email letters that document a common bond of incomparable coincidence, charm, wisdom, and wit.Roz (a widow of many years and Karen’s and Steve's Mom) and Ralph (a recent widower and Mori’s Dad) invite you to join them on their very special journey…one that may inspire you, your loved ones or friends.Offered an open-ended ticket and challenged to pursue a new life even in the time of Covid-19, Roz and Ralph could only wonder where their choices would take them "in this last beautiful chapter of our lives. We know in our hearts that we are meant to be together … to blend our separate lives together making us a couple who measure our living moments as our moments," but there was so much to consider.For the first time ever, most people in the United States are living into their eighties.This must-read for people in and approaching their eighties, and also for their families, is a multi-generational story of hope. It is an inspirational and uplifting gift to the elders in our lives. Readers, young and old alike will cherish this eye-opening and comforting dialogue as Roz and Ralph broach their pasts, attitudes, interests, secrets, concerns, purposes, and joys that lead them to finding unexpected happiness in their declining years.With a special ribbon marker, this book will become a treasurable presence on bedside nightstands and bookshelves everywhere.Trade Review"Roz and Ralph, authors of the new book Beyond Beyond, discuss the email exchange that started it all on Morning in America on NewsNation. Check out the full interview on News Nation. - NEWS NATION NOW
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