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"How come I can never find my keys? Why don't I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. [This book], by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts, and the prescription to age well, in his signature engaging style. With so many discoveries over the years, science is literally changing our minds about the optimal care and...
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This controversial book argues that concepts such as 'successful' and 'active' ageing - ubiquitous terms in research, marketing and policy making concerned with older adults – are potentially dangerous paradigms that reflect and exacerbate inequalities in older populations. This author presents a new theory to make sense of the popularity of these 'successful' and 'active' ageing concepts. Readers are invited to view them through the prism of Model...
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Este libro tiene como propósito brindar un panorama general sobre la vejez y el envejecimiento. Envejecer es un proceso inevitable por el que atravesamos la mayoría de los seres vivos. Tener conocimiento sobre esta etapa permitirá tomar decisiones en el presente que repercutirán en cómo se afronte la propia vejez y la del otro. El lector encontrará en estas páginas algunos conceptos básicos de gerontología; los cambios morfofisiológicos...
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This book focuses on older people as makers of meaning and insight, highlighting the evolving values, priorities and ways of communicating that make later life fascinating. It explores what creating 'meaning' in later life really implies, for older people themselves, for how to conceptualize older people and for relationships between generations. The book offers a language for discussing major types of life-course meaning, not least those concerning...
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As the field of aging and gerontology grows worldwide, this exciting guide introduces students to key issues and concepts. It covers topics related to the phenomena of advancing aging, including how older age has been defined historically, cultural myths related to advanced age, health and function in later life, how older age is financed throughout the world, and other key questions. Taking a multiple-perspective approach (including humanities, social...
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Esta investigacin presenta una propuesta de trabajo con adultos mayores a partir de un Modelo de Atencin para el cuidado de adultos mayores a partir del mtodo Montessori. El Modelo est siendo utilizado en una casa de cuidado de adultos mayores en el Estado de Colima, en el cual se han ido modificando las estrategias de atencin en donde se busca principalmente el desarrollo de habilidades sociales, a partir de actividades ldico-recreativas, que les...
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In the summer of 1996, Ruth Ray, a gerontologist in her forties, befriended an eighty-two-year-old man suffering from Parkinson's. The two remained close until the end of his life, sharing stories and memories while building a deep relationship. Part memoir, part biography, Endnotes explores how people construct meaning through their interactions with others. With grace and wit, Ray situates her friend's past experiences and present relationships...
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Will you be ready when it's time...?
Whether whittling down to the essentials for a parent moving into a room or two or downsizing for ourselves, ignoring the spirit and basing decisions on health and safety alone could have devastating results.
In this hope filled book you will learn how to:
* Identify needs and desires to create a quality new life
* Cope with the Depression Era mind-set
* Create emotionally sustaining environments to nurture the...
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Applying interdisciplinary perspectives about everyday life to vital issues in the lives of older people, this book maps together the often taken-for-granted aspects of what it means to age in an ageist society. Part of the “Ageing in a Global Context” series, the two parts address the materialities and the embodiments of everyday life respectively. Topics covered include household possessions, public and private spaces, older drivers, media representations,...
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Over the next 40 years the number of people aged 60+ in the world, many of whom live in developing regions, will grow by 1¼ billion. What will old age be like for them? This original book provides an analysis of links between development, population ageing and older people, challenging some widely held misconceptions. It highlights the complexity of international experiences and argues that the effects of population ageing on development are influenced...
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Part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, this book proposes a new research agenda for scholarship that focuses on ethnicity, race and old age. It argues that in a time of increased international migration, population ageing and ethno-cultural diversity, scholarly imagination must be expanded as current research frameworks are becoming obsolete. By bringing attention to the way that ethnicity and race have been addressed in research on ageing...
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As we age, society's negative assumptions mean we become a burden, a problem and the excluded 'other'. With a convincing call to embrace all that is positive about ageing comes this timely book from the authors of Retiring with Attitude. Debunking the myth of the ageing time bomb it presents a new, yet realistic, way for society to engage with older people from a myriad of perspectives, including consumerism, media, work, housing, community and 'beauty'....
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Nations that are raising retirement ages appear to work on the assumption that there is appropriate employment available for people who are expected to retire later. 'Gender, ageing and extended working life' challenges both this narrative, and the gender-neutral way the expectation for extending working lives is presented in most policy-making circles. The international contributors to this book - part of the Ageing in a Global Context series - apply...
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This unique book represents the first multi-disciplinary examination of ageing, covering everything from basic cell biology, to social participation in later life, to the representations of old age in the arts and literature. A comprehensive introductory text about the latest scientific evidence on ageing, the book draws on the pioneering New Dynamics of Ageing Programme, the UK's largest research programme in ageing. This programme brought together...
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Vieillir en ville est loin d'être simple. La précarité des personnes vieillissantes, souvent dépendantes de revenus fixes ou mal indexés, s'accroît. La crise du logement et la hausse du coût de la vie les frappent durement, sans parler du manque d'accessibilité des soins à domicile, rares et souvent trop coûteux. Les politiques publiques font la promotion de leur maintien dans leur milieu de vie et dans la communauté, mais dans les faits,...
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Le vieillissement de la population est l'une des mutations majeures du siècle dernier, dont les conséquences sont sans précédent dans l'histoire de l'humanité. Allant au-delà des constats sur le vieillissement démographique, les auteurs du présent ouvrage dépassent les rhétoriques statistique ou comptable et examinent le sujet à partir de la question des droits, de l'intervention publique et de l'action collective.
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This powerful book analyses the vital dimensions of money, health, place, quality of life and identity, and demonstrates the gaps of treatment and outcomes between older and younger people, and between different groups of older people. Written by leading experts in the field, it provides strong evidence of the scale of current disadvantage in the UK and suggests actions that could begin to change the picture of unequal ageing. 'Unequal ageing' is...
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This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 1, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews of the very latest research on ageing. Together they report the outcomes of the most concerted investigation ever undertaken into both the influence shaping the changing nature of ageing and its consequences for individuals and society. This book concentrates on four major themes: autonomy and independence in later life, biology and...
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