Gerontology category: 668 books
Facilitating Spiritual Reminiscence for People with Dementia
A Learning Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2015
Spiritual reminiscence is a way of communicating that acknowledges the person as a spiritual being and seeks to engage the person in a more meaningful and personal way. This practical guide teaches carers how to facilitate engaging and stimulating spiritual reminiscence sessions with older people,...
Losing Clive to Younger Onset Dementia
One Family's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
Clive Beaumont was diagnosed with Younger Onset Dementia at age 45, when his children were aged just 3 and 4. He had become less and less able to do his job properly and had been made redundant from the Army the year before.
Clive's wife, Helen, tells of how she and the rest of the family made...
The Longevity Revolution
The Benefits and Challenges of Living a Long Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Dr. Robert N. Butler coined the term ageism” and made Alzheimer's” a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years, and the growing number of people over age sixty-five.
Alarmingly,...
Health Promotion and Aging, Seventh Edition
Practical Applications for Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
The seventh edition of this classic text champions healthy aging by demonstrating how to prevent or manage disease, and make large-scale improvements toward health and wellness in the older adult population. The text synthesizes state-of-the-art research findings—providing convincing evidence that...
by James E. Allen, PhD, MSPH
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
This digital offering reflects the revised and updated study guide based on the same format as the actual exam and provides an easy-to-use, effective way to review essential concepts and practice test-taking skills. Toggling between the revised sixth edition of Nursing Home Administration and the...
The Big Shift
Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life,” offers a recipe for how we can transform America's coming midlife crisis into a midlife opportunity. Millions of people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies...
Aging Aggressively:
How to Avoid the Us Health-Care Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Take charge of your health! If you are an aging individual in the United States, its crucial to understand present health-care policies and doctorpatient relations so you can aggressively demand the best care. Once you know the ins and outs, youll feel secure and enjoy the aging process. The first...
Creating a Value Proposition for Geriatric Care
The Transformation of American Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
This book creates a value proposition in geriatric care - a promise of value to be delivered to improve care and to provide specific benefits to healthcare systems. It describes strategies and understanding of the incentives, barriers encountered in promoting changes in the healthcare systems, and...
Reconstructing retirement
Work and welfare in the UK and USA
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
Retirement is being ‘reconstructed’, with the UK following the US path of abolishing mandatory retirement and increasing state pension ages. This timely book assesses prospects for work and retirement at age 65-plus in the UK and US. Part 1 explores the shifting ‘policy logics’ in both countries...
Aging Social Policies
An International Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Due to population explosion and a global increase in average life expectancies, an unprecedentedly high percentage of the world's population is aging. By the middle of this century there will be up to 2 billion individuals over the age of 65, a demographic shift never before experienced in our human...
by Francis G Caro, Robert Morris *Deceased*
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Explore significant-but often-overlooked-aspects of aging policy!
This unique addition to the literature on aging policy will help you understand devolution-the decentralizing of service provision-and the roles that state/local government and private organizations now play in addressing the...
The Longevity Economy
Unlocking the World's Fastest-Growing, Most Misunderstood Market
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Oldness: a social construct at odds with reality that constrains how we live after middle age and stifles business thinking on how to best serve a group of consumers, workers, and innovators that is growing larger and wealthier with every passing day.
Over the past two decades, Joseph F. Coughlin...
by Charles Durrett
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
No matter how rich life is in youth and middle age the elder years can bring on increasing isolation and loneliness as social connections lessen especially if friends and family members move away.Senior cohousing fills a niche for this demographic -- the healthy educated and proactive adults who want...
What Makes Olga Run?
The Mystery of the 90-Something Track Star and What She Can Teach Us About Living Longer, Happier Lives
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
A fascinating look at the way we age today and the extent to which we can shape the process
In What Makes Olga Run? Bruce Grierson explores what the wild success of a ninety-four-year-old track star can tell us about how our bodies and minds age. Olga Kotelko is not your average ninety-four-year-old....