Age groups: the elderly / old age Books
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 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 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 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 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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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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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 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 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 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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Anthem Press Institutional Provisions and Care for the Aged
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University of Pittsburgh Press Old Age New Science Gerontologists and Their
Book SynopsisExplores how a group of American and British life scientists contributed to gerontology's development as a multidisciplinary field. It examines the foundational biosocial visions they shared. Hyung Wook Park shows how these visions shaped popular discourses on aging, directly influenced the institutionalization of gerontology, and reflected the biases of their founders.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Senior Living Communities
Book SynopsisThe essential guide to managing senior living communitiesnow updated!Senior Living Communities has long been considered the most comprehensive guide to revolutionizing the management practices of communities catering to seniors. Now in its third edition, Benjamin W. Pearce''s updated book lays out the latest operational guidelines, assessment tools, and intervention options to transform how to provide care and enhance the quality of life for residents.With a focus on measuring and understanding health and lifestyle progression, this edition introduces how assessment tools can establish a baseline and enable tracking of changes in residents'' health conditions. Equipped with this invaluable information, providers and primary care professionals can make informed decisions, tailor treatments, and improve the quality of life for their residents. Offering guidance on improving safety alongside advice on navigating increasingly complex lifestyle challenges, Pea
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Advantage Media Group The Hospice Handbook: Nurse Debbie's
Book SynopsisDiscover the Importance of Gentle End-of-Life Care for Your Loved OnesWell-informed patients and families have better hospice care experiences. But most people don’t learn about hospice until they feel they have no other choice. Delaying that education means it’s often too late to take advantage of the many benefits hospice care can offer. With The Hospice Handbook, Nurse Debbie wants to change all that. By empowering patients, families, and other caregivers with the tools they need to navigate the complicated world of hospice care, she hopes to improve hospice patients’ quality of life dramatically.Employing her trademark love, compassion, and folksy humor, which comes from her own dear father, Pappy, who inspired her to open Serenity First Hospice Care in Richmond, Virginia, Nurse Debbie provides invaluable advice and crucial facts about the many facets of hospice, including interviews with vital members of the hospice care team. Through this thoughtful guide, Nurse Debbie hopes you’ll discover that the challenging road you’re walking can not only be faced with confidence and comfort but also filled with many meaningful opportunities to celebrate life and love to the very end.
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Collective Ink Advancing Conversations: Aubrey de Grey –
Book SynopsisAdvancing Conversations is a line of interview books documenting conversations with artists, authors, philosophers, economists, scientists, and activists whose works are aimed at the future and at progress. The biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, as the world's pre-eminent longevity advocate, is nothing if not future oriented. De Grey is the founder of the SENS Research Foundation, an organization developing medical interventions to repair the damage the body does to itself over time. Stated more directly, Aubrey de Grey and his organization aim to defeat aging. In 2005 a panel of scientists and doctors from MIT, Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Microsoft, and the Venter Institute participated in a contest to judge whether de Grey's "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence" were worthy of debate and verification or whether these ideas were wrong on their face. The panel found that de Grey's proposals for intervening in the aging process, while speculative, often "ran parallel to existing research" and were not "demonstrably wrong."
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HarperCollins Publishers 49 Uses for a Walking Stick
Book SynopsisWalking sticks have had a bad press. For too long the walking stick has been portrayed as a workaday item of codgerism, a simple support for the aged and infirm. This is not the case. Possession of a walking stick opens up a whole gamut of opportunities beyond the simple 'leaning against' purpose. In 49 Uses for A Walking Stick Frank Hopkinson explains the variety of practical uses a walking stick can be put to, from flicking filthy slugs off a lawn and parting crowds to alerting a theatre-goer two rows in front that his rapid consumption of fruit bonbons is ruining everyone's enjoyment. Illustrated throughout, the book also includes a miscellany of walking stick trivia, facts and figures and fun information.
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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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SAGE Publications Inc Spirituality Religion and Aging
Book SynopsisThis highly integrative book was written for students, professionalsin aging, religious leaders, and older adults themselves.Readers will gain the knowledge and skills they need to assess, engage, and address the spiritual and religious needs of older persons. Taking a fresh approach that breaks new ground in the field, the author discusses eight major world religions and covers values and ethics, theories, interventions, health and caregiving, depression and anxiety, dementia, and the end of life. Meditations and exercises throughout the book allow readers to expand and explore their personal understanding of spirituality. Referencing the latest research, the book includes assessments and skill-based tools designed to help practitioners enhance the mental health of older people. Trade Review"Professor Holly Nelson-Becker’s groundbreaking book provides a holistic framework of knowledge, values, and clinical practices that promote gerontological practitioners’ comfort and competence to address spirituality and religion. Her subtitle key word ‘illuminations’ is apropos. Nelson-Becker deftly integrates understandings from social work, nursing, psychology, counseling, health sciences, chaplaincy, and other fields to craft an interdisciplinary approach that is sensitive to the vulnerabilities and strengths of aging and dying that reveal, as she said, "openings for light." She synergizes profound insights with practical daily life realities. She presents these insights with scientific acumen and poetic sensibility. All of this is supported by her extensive experience as a clinician, researcher, educator, and pastoral minister. The resulting approach to gerontological practice respects diverse religious and nonreligious expressions of clients’ spiritual journeys and supports the professional and spiritual growth of clinicians. I enthusiastically recommend this book." -- Edward R. Canda, Director of the Spiritual Diversity Initiative"Religion and spirituality play an important role in the lives of older adults. This book will be an important resource to aid helping professionals to become more aware of this fact and integrate this awareness in their work. The book will also be helpful to clergy and chaplains who frequently provide care to older adults and their loved one but rarely have any training in gerontology. The book includes helpful discussions of important topics including spiritual assessment, care for those with dementia and care at the end of life." -- George Fitchett "Spirituality is a vital part of aging and this book is a comprehensive resource providing both theoretical and clinical insight to understand the complex aspects of spirituality for older people. The text is an outstanding guide for all disciplines." -- Betty Ferrell"In this essential and insightful book for our times, Holly Nelson-Becker draws upon current research and scholarship regarding spirituality, religion, and aging from a range of disciplines and shares stories, examples, and anecdotes from her own work with older adults and their families. Readers will appreciate this approach of bringing together findings from scientific research and insights from practice and presenting them in an easy to understand language and style. One of the key strengths of this book is its accessibility and applicability for practitioners. Although high-quality research is being conducted and published, oftentimes this work is not reaching health practitioners, social workers, and therapists who are serving older adults and their caregivers. This book has the potential to connect research and practice audiences around these important topics. Given the continuing increase in the population of older adults from varied ethnic and cultural backgrounds and the spiritual and religious challenges they experience, the book includes a continuing discussion of diverse faith traditions and their implications for mental health practitioners. Another important strength of the book is its emphasis on active learning. Each chapter includes discussion questions, meditation exercises, spiritual exercises, and case studies aimed at engaging readers in using what they are learning. Internet and other resources are also included to help interested readers in obtaining additional information on topics of their interest. These pedagogical features further contribute to the books’ overall goal of preparing students and health care providers to address psychological and spiritual needs of older people from varied ethnic and cultural backgrounds. This text is a timely and relevant contribution to the growing body of work on spirituality, religion, and aging that has the potential to further knowledge, have meaningful impact for multiple audiences, and ultimately improve the lives of older adults." -- Chandra M. Mehrotra, PhDOccasionally, I read a book that illustrates what can happen when clinical experience meets research and scholarship meets compassion and wisdom. When these all come together, you have a work that appeals to practitioners, educators, students, and those we seek to serve. Each of the chapters could stand alone as a journal article—taken together, they provide a blueprint for spirituality in older adults. -- Stanley G. McCracken, Ph.D., LCSW, RDDPTable of ContentsForeword Preface About the Author Invitation PART I • PRINCIPLES OF SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION FOR GERONTOLOGICAL PRACTICE Chapter 1 • The Importance of Spirituality and Religion for Gerontology Aging in a Postmodern Time Practical and Orienting Definitions Portrait of Religion and Aging in the United States The Demographics of Old Age Intersectionalities Among Spirituality, Gender Identity, and Older Age A Brief History of Spirituality Across Disciplines Assumptions About Religion and Spirituality The Legacy of Aging in Modern Times New Directions Clinical Aspects of Later-Life Spiritual Journeys Summary Questions for Discussion Introduction to Meditation Exercises Meditation: Breath Exploring Your Spirituality: Introduction Exploring Your Spirituality: Basic Questions Exploring Your Spirituality: Connect With Nature Websites Chapter 2 • Defining Religion and Spirituality: Professional and Practical Philosophies Shifting Foundations Religion and Spirituality: What Do They Mean? Who or What Is God? Professional Definitions of Religion Background of Spirituality and Its Relevance for Aging Other Aspects: Existential Well-Being, Spiritual Well-Being, Spiritual Suffering, and Spiritual Care Spirituality, Standards of Care, and the Professions Summary Case Study: Spiritual Suffering and Spiritual Crisis Questions for Discussion Meditation: Relaxation, Also Known as Body Scan Assignment: Interview an Older Adult Exploring Your Spirituality: Objects of Meaning and Memory Websites Recommended Reading Chapter 3 • Values and Ethics With Older Adults Empathy, Compassion, or Sympathy Virtue Ethics Religion and Ethics Spiritual and Existentialist/Humanist Ethics Nonviolence and Interreligious Harmony Ethical Theory for Practice in Brief Value Dimensions for Practice Boundaries in Ethical Practice End-of-Life Ethics End-of-Life Case Intergenerational Ethics The Rights of Older Adults Madrid International Plan of Action on Aging, 2002 and Beyond Generosity, Spiritual Wealth, and Service Summary Questions for Discussion Meditation: Changing of the Seasons Exploring Your Spirituality: Spiritual-Ethical Will Exploring Your Spirituality: Vision Exploring Your Spirituality: Scent Websites Recommended Reading Chapter 4 • Religion and Spirituality in Theory Why Does Theory Matter? Social Gerontology Perspectives and Theories Theories of Individual Behavior Developmental and Transpersonal Theorists Humanism Transpersonal Psychology Theories of Positive Aging, Successful Aging, and Strengths Theory Integration Summary Case Study: Letha Bainbridge Questions for Discussion Meditation: The Tree That Was Planted the Day You Were Born Exploring Your Spirituality: Developing a Spiritual History Exploring Your Spirituality: Defining a Peak Experience Websites Recommended Reading Chapter 5 • Religion and Older Adults Judaism Christianity American Indian Religion/Spirituality Islam Hinduism Buddhism Confucianism Daoism Integration of Religious Philosophies and Aging Summary Questions for Discussion Assignment: Framing the Landscape of Religious Ritual Assignment: Sacred Spaces Exercise Meditation: Present Moment Awareness Exploring Your Spirituality: Rhythm and Movement Exploring Your Spirituality: Pilgrimage Websites Recommended Reading PART II • PRACTICE DIMENSIONS OF SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION IN AGING Chapter 6 • Spirituality and Religion in Clinical Assessment What’s Important About Religion and Assessment? Mental Health Assessment The Clinical Assessment Process With Spirituality Clinical Assessment Protocols Rapid Assessment Instrument Protocols Spiritual Distress Assessment Summary Questions for Discussion Meditation: Focused Attention Exploring Your Spirituality: Discernment Exploring Your Spirituality: Emotional Mindfulness Exploring Your Spirituality: Composition of the Place Website Recommended Reading Chapter 7 • Religious and Spiritual Interventions With Clients Section 1: Philosophical Approaches to Therapy With Older People Section 2: Mid-Range Interventions of Care Section 3: Micro-Level Individual Spiritual Care Activities Summary Questions for Discussion Meditation: Bringing Yourself Together Exploring Your Spirituality: The Labyrinth Exploring Your Spirituality: Building Intentional Spiritual Places Websites Recommended Reading Chapter 8 • Spirituality, Religion, and Health Definitions of Health Aging and the Body: Failing Health Historical Views on Religion and Health From Holistic Historical Renderings to Modern Cultural Health Considerations Suffering Views of Health From Religious Perspectives Research on the Intersections Between Religion and Health Caregiving Prayers, Rituals, and Symbols Hope, Meaning/Purpose, and Mental Health Summary Case Study: Health and Spirituality Questions for Discussion Meditation: Taste Exploring Your Spirituality: Touch Exploring Your Spirituality: Taste and Savoring Websites Recommended Reading Chapter 9 • Spirituality in Emotion, Depression, and Anxiety Emotions and Their Meaning Emotion and the Sacred Indicators and Etiology of Depression Depression Types Depression as Cultural Marker Epidemiology Eudaimonia Other Depression-Like States: Demoralization, Desolation and the Dark Night of the Soul, and Despair Research Related to Depression and Religion Interventions Spiritual Interventions and Depression/Desolation Anxiety Anxiety Interventions Summary Case Study: Depression and Spirituality Questions for Discussion Meditation: Self-Compassion With Movement Exploring Your Spirituality: Regret Exploring Your Spirituality: Fighting Fear Exploring Your Spirituality: Gratitude Websites Recommended Reading Chapter 10 • Memory, Dementia, and Spiritual Care Memory and Growing Older Types of Dementia and Behavioral Indicators Delirium, Depression, Thyroid, Vitamin Deficiencies, Alcoholism, and Other Temporary Causes of Dementia Prevalence of Dementia Disclosure of AD and Related Dementia: A Counseling Concern Another Perspective on Dementia Spirituality and the Self Understanding Need-Driven, Dementia-Compromised Behavior Literature Related to Spiritual Aspects of Dementia and Dementia Care Practice Religious and Spiritual Practice Principles for the Person With Dementia Arts-Based Interventions Summary Questions for Discussion Meditation: Walking Exploring Your Spirituality: Sound Exploring Your Spirituality: Tonglen Practice to Increase Compassion Websites Recommended Reading: Information for Professionals Recommended Reading: Memoirs on Dementia Chapter 11 • Spirituality at the End of Life The Nature of Dying Spirituality at the End of Life: Historical Context Older Adults in Hospice Care Modern Palliative and Hospice Care National Consensus Project Guidelines A Spiritual Care Model Spiritual Care at the End of Life: Spiritual Practices Communication at the End of Life Summary Questions for Discussion Assignment: Spirituality, Religion, and Loss Meditation: Refreshing the Senses Exploring Your Spirituality: Creating Your Own Obituary— An Opportunity for Reflection Exploring Your Spirituality: Plan Your Memorial or Funeral Service Exploring Your Spirituality: A Meeting With Death Websites Recommended Reading Chapter 12 • Integration Integration of Religion and Spirituality With Professional Practice Functions of Religion Trends in Spirituality A Practical Philosophy or Practical Theology Spiritual Orientation Dissimilarity Between Client and Practitioner Working With Spiritual Unease and Distress in Disasters Evaluation Interprofessional Practice and Spirituality Self-Care and Mindfulness: Spiritual Awareness Contemplative Practices for Renewal Self-Compassion A Personal Note on the Challenge of Spiritual Integration Summary Questions for Discussion Meditation: Color Exploring Your Spirituality: Balance and Equipoise Exploring Your Spirituality: Self-Integration Websites Recommended Reading Chapter 13 • Lessons for Building Spiritual Resilience and Epilogue Section 1: Lessons For Building Resilience Section 2: Epilogue Benediction Parting Thoughts Questions for Discussion Assignment: Visioning Meditation: A Meditation With Music—The Great Bell Chant Meditation: A Meditation With Movement—Five Ages Dancing Meditation: A Meditation Using Hands or Fingers Meditation: MBSR Mindfulness Eight-Week Course Exploring Your Spirituality: Working With Light Exploring Your Spirituality: Participation and Reciprocity Exploring Your Spirituality: Laughter and Joy Website Recommended Reading Appendix: Older Adult Definitions References Index
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The University of Chicago Press Research Findings in the Economics of Aging NBER
Book SynopsisThe baby boom generation's entry into old age has led to an unprecedented increase in the elderly population. The social and economic effects of this shift are significant. This title takes a eclectic view of the subject. It offers in-depth analysis of the effects of retirement plans, employer contributions, and housing prices on retirement.
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Columbia University Press Critical Issues for Future Social Work Practice
Book SynopsisDemonstrates that many of the consequences that social workers must face are made more difficult by the dominance of a market discourse that excludes a social justice framework. This book includes subjects such as constructing community support, aging and caregiving in culturally diverse families, and changing demographics of widowhood.Table of Contents1. Controversial Concepts, by Sheila Neysmith and Margaret MacAdam 2. Widowhood: Dominant Renditions, Changing Demography, and Variable Meaning, by Anne Martin-Matthews 3. Conflicting Images of Older People Receiving Care: Challenges for Reflexive Practice and Research, by Jane Aronson 4. Constructing Community Care: (Re)Storying Support, by Deborah O'Connor 5. Aging and Disability in the New Millennium: Challenges for Social Work Research and Practice, by Amy Horowitz 6. Aging and Caregiving in Ethnocultural Families: Diverse Situations but Common Issues, by Nancy Guberman and Pierre Maheu 7. Feminist Lessons from the Gray Market in Personal Care for the Elderly: So What If You Have to Spend Your Own Money?, by Sharon M. Keigher 8. Being in Health: Versions of the Discursive Body, by Anne Opie
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Columbia University Press Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book certainly fills a niche for a well-deserved population that is often ignored. -- Donna Wang Activities, Adaptation, and AgingTable of ContentsForeword: Looking Back on the Nursing Home Experience of My Mother, by Msgr. Charles Fahey Foreword, by Virginia Richardson Introduction, by Mercedes Bern-Klug 1. The Need to Extend the Reach of Palliative Psychosocial Care to Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Chronic Illness, by Mercedes Bern-Klug 2. The Structure and Process of Advanced Chronic Illness and Palliative Care in Nursing Homes, by Sarah Thompson and Lisa Church 3. Paying for Advanced Chronic Illness and Hospice Care in America's Nursing Homes, by Michael J. Klug 4. Trends in the Characteristics of Nursing Homes and Residents, by Mercedes Bern-Klug 5. Anticipating and Managing Common Medical Challenges Encountered at the End of Life, by Ann Allegre 6. Identifying and Addressing the Psychosocial, Social, Spiritual, and Existential Issues Affecting Nursing Home Residents at the End of Life, by Jean C. Munn 7. Identifying and Addressing Family Members' Psychosocial, Spiritual, and Existential Issues Related to Having a Loved One Living and Dying in a Nursing Home, by Patricia J. Kolb 8. Identifying and Addressing Ethical Issues in Advanced Chronic Illness and at the End of Life, by Charles E. Gessert and Don F. Reynolds 9. Final Discharge Planning: Rituals Related to the Death of a Nursing Home Resident, by Peggy Sharr and Mercedes Bern-Klug 10. Grief, Self-Care, and Staff-Care: Repeated Loss in the Nursing Home Environment, by Sara Sanders and Patti Homan 11. The Future of Palliative Psychosocial Care for Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Chronic Illness, by Mercedes Bern-Klug Appendix Index
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Columbia University Press Transforming Palliative Care in Nursing Homes
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book certainly fills a niche for a well-deserved population that is often ignored. -- Donna Wang Activities, Adaptation, and AgingTable of ContentsForeword: Looking Back on the Nursing Home Experience of My Mother, by Msgr. Charles Fahey Foreword, by Virginia Richardson Introduction, by Mercedes Bern-Klug 1. The Need to Extend the Reach of Palliative Psychosocial Care to Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Chronic Illness, by Mercedes Bern-Klug 2. The Structure and Process of Advanced Chronic Illness and Palliative Care in Nursing Homes, by Sarah Thompson and Lisa Church 3. Paying for Advanced Chronic Illness and Hospice Care in America's Nursing Homes, by Michael J. Klug 4. Trends in the Characteristics of Nursing Homes and Residents, by Mercedes Bern-Klug 5. Anticipating and Managing Common Medical Challenges Encountered at the End of Life, by Ann Allegre 6. Identifying and Addressing the Psychosocial, Social, Spiritual, and Existential Issues Affecting Nursing Home Residents at the End of Life, by Jean C. Munn 7. Identifying and Addressing Family Members' Psychosocial, Spiritual, and Existential Issues Related to Having a Loved One Living and Dying in a Nursing Home, by Patricia J. Kolb 8. Identifying and Addressing Ethical Issues in Advanced Chronic Illness and at the End of Life, by Charles E. Gessert and Don F. Reynolds 9. Final Discharge Planning: Rituals Related to the Death of a Nursing Home Resident, by Peggy Sharr and Mercedes Bern-Klug 10. Grief, Self-Care, and Staff-Care: Repeated Loss in the Nursing Home Environment, by Sara Sanders and Patti Homan 11. The Future of Palliative Psychosocial Care for Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Chronic Illness, by Mercedes Bern-Klug Appendix Index
£38.25
Columbia University Press Hospice Social Work
Book SynopsisA longtime practitioner, Dona J. Reese describes the hospice social work role in assessment and intervention with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and the community, while honestly confronting the personal and professional difficulties of such life-changing work.Trade ReviewThis new book significantly adds to the growing literature on social work and end-of-life care. Social work educators, clinicians, and researchers would be well served utilizing this comprehensive text. Dona J. Reese provides a historical perspective for new hospice social workers, but also offers substantial content for the seasoned team social worker. The chapter on self-care should be required reading for all hospice/palliative social workers. -- Sherri Weisenfluh, LCSW ACHP-SW, Hospice of the Bluegrass This book is well organized and readable and benefits from occasional examples of individual cases, sometimes from the author's own experience. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. End-of-Life Care in the United States 2. Current Status of Social Work in Hospice 3. A Model for Psychosocial and Spiritual Care in Hospice 4. Hospice Social Work Practice on the Micro Level 5. Mezzo Context of Hospice Social Work: Work with Families 6. Macro Context of Hospice Social Work: Organization 7. Cultural Competence in Hospice 8. Personal Preparation and Social Worker Self-Care 9. Future Challenges in the Field of Hospice Social Work: Looking Ahead Appendix A. Social Work Assessment Tool Appendix B. National Association of Social Workers Appendix C. Team Functioning Scale Index
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Book SynopsisA longtime practitioner, Dona J. Reese describes the hospice social work role in assessment and intervention with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and the community, while honestly confronting the personal and professional difficulties of such life-changing work.Trade ReviewThis new book significantly adds to the growing literature on social work and end-of-life care. Social work educators, clinicians, and researchers would be well served utilizing this comprehensive text. Dona J. Reese provides a historical perspective for new hospice social workers, but also offers substantial content for the seasoned team social worker. The chapter on self-care should be required reading for all hospice/palliative social workers. -- Sherri Weisenfluh, LCSW ACHP-SW, Hospice of the Bluegrass This book is well organized and readable and benefits from occasional examples of individual cases, sometimes from the author's own experience. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. End-of-Life Care in the United States 2. Current Status of Social Work in Hospice 3. A Model for Psychosocial and Spiritual Care in Hospice 4. Hospice Social Work Practice on the Micro Level 5. Mezzo Context of Hospice Social Work: Work with Families 6. Macro Context of Hospice Social Work: Organization 7. Cultural Competence in Hospice 8. Personal Preparation and Social Worker Self-Care 9. Future Challenges in the Field of Hospice Social Work: Looking Ahead Appendix A. Social Work Assessment Tool Appendix B. National Association of Social Workers Appendix C. Team Functioning Scale Index
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Columbia University Press Lifting Our Voices
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Columbia University Press Walking the Night Road
Book SynopsisSpeaks to the experience of caring for a loved one with a terminal illness and the difficulties of encountering death.Trade ReviewAlexandra Butler's account of her parents' deaths is engaging and affecting. Boomers and their children will learn much from this memoir as they themselves approach the finitude of life. -- Andrew Achenbaum, Professor of Social Work at the University of Houston An honest look at marriage, aging, happiness, and survival-both wise and funny. You will walk the Night Road too. -- Barbara Walters A detailed, beautifully written, insightful account of the process of dying and of living-it's difficult to put down. Butler is able to use her words to breathe life into the people she is writing about and provide the reader with an ability to enter their lives as observers who can nearly feel the sun, shudder in the cold, and hear the creak of the floors. -- Jeanette Takamura, Dean, Columbia School of Social Work This book is Ms. Butler's passionate account of her fight to help her mother, the author of works on mental health and aging, Myrna Lewis, in her battle against a malignant brain tumor. The depth of her grief and her fury against a foe she knew must win is palpable on every page. -- Peter Pouncey, Author of Rules for Old Men Waiting Alexandra Butler's memoir of the last year-and-a-half of her mother's life is a searing, exquisitely written, brilliant work. Its honesty, insight, and poetic sensitivity left us deeply moved, far more so than anything else we've read in many years. It is truly a magnificent accomplishment. -- Lawrence K. Grossman, Former president of NBC News and PBS I read this book in one sitting last night and it is really remarkable. She captures, a la Virginia Woolf, the inner voice and experience of illness, death and grief in a way I have not seen before. Lots of talent there. -- Diane Meier, Director of Center to Advance Palliative Care The vivid, expressive intelligence of the writing made the exploding consequences of Myrna's cancer invade my mind in ways that were deeply moving and instructive. I was struck by the author's skill as a writer from the devastating start of the book, in which Myrna has already crossed the threshold into a world from which she can't return. It reads like a nightmare at first, but then settles into the pit of the stomach as not nightmare at all, not even the cultural nightmare of cancer as dread incarnate, but as our everyday, waking reality transformed into a bizarre parallel universe. Butler has composed a particular and telling vignette with implications beyond her immediate circumstances-a tragi-comic subtext to the way many of us are driven to organize our lives in unbroken chains of projects. -- Joan Retallack, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities, Bard College I read it in one sitting. I laughed; I cried my eyes out; I related the whole way. And the beauty of it is that my mother does not have cancer. No one has cancer. It's the relationship and the feelings, deep to the core. This is not about cancer. It's about people, about the relationship between the people and the journey. I bet that people will relate no matter what kind of death or loss. -- Joan Siffert, Senior Vice President of Development at Gilda's Club Beautifully and skillfully written. -- Rabbi Harold S. Kushner Beautiful, heartbreaking and incisive, Butler's memoir is a brutally honest retelling of her mother's tragic battle against cancer. Her words go beyond just grief, they inspire a greater understanding of what it means to be a child, and how the lines that define familial roles are often more complex and messy than they seem. A child is never just a child. A parent never just a parent. Walking the Night Road is a cathartic tribute to anyone who has ever lost a parent. -- Will Reiser, Screenwriter, 50/50 Butler has written a moving and powerful book about the unlikely blessings that a death can bring. Anyone who has lost a loved one-or indeed anyone who has unwillingly embarked on an adventure only to find themselves in a better place-will enjoy this account. She reminds us all that hardships can sometimes be gifts wrapped in pain. We just need to see them that way. -- Dan Buettner, Author, The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People Butler gives an exceptionally full-bodied description of family life, with its enduring connections, weaknesses, cruelties and warmth. -- Terri Apter Times Literary Supplement Very well written, organized and presented, Walking the Night Road is... extraordinary and highly recommended. The Midwest Book Review Well written and engaging. Journal of Gerontological Social WorkTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Walking the Night Road
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