Aging A-Z

Aging A-Z
Author: Carroll L. Estes
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2019-04-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429619588

This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding, with links to concepts of identity, knowledge construction, social networks, social movements, and inequalities. With today’s intensifying concentration of wealth and corporatization, precarity is the fate for growing numbers of the world’s population. Intersectionality as an analytic concept offers a new appreciation of how social advantage and disadvantage accumulate, and how constructions of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender influence aging. The book’s entries offer a bibliographic compendium, crediting the salience of early pioneering theorists and locating these within the cutting-edge of research (social, behavioral, policy, and gene–environment sciences) that currently advances our understandings of human development, trauma, and resilience. Accompanying these foundations are theories of resistance for advancing human rights and the dignity of marginalized populations.

Older Americans Act of 1978

Older Americans Act of 1978
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Human Resources. Subcommittee on Aging
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1730
Release: 1979
Genre: Older people
ISBN:

Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine

Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine
Author: Jean-Pierre Michel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 1393
Release: 2018
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0198701594

The third edition of the definitive international reference book on all aspects of the medical care of older persons will provide every physician involved in the care of older patients with a comprehensive resource on all the clinical problems they are likely to encounter, as well as on related psychological, philosophical, and social issues.

Geriatrics for Specialists

Geriatrics for Specialists
Author: Andrew G. Lee
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 3030762718

This book aims to be a single point of reference for advances in the care of geriatric populations across medical and surgical specialties. The aging population is a unique demographic with its own health challenges. Geriatricians are specifically trained to address these challenges but few medical students or residents enter geriatrics, even as the demand for geriatric expertise increases. The practices of many medical and surgical specialists are dominated by older patients who may themselves see many specialists but rarely visit geriatricians. This updated edition elucidates the most common medical conditions seen in aging patients and translates approaches to those conditions for physicians across specialties. Divided into three sections that assemble crosscutting issues, medical specialties, and surgical and related specialties, this book serves as a guide for clinicians of all backgrounds who will work with older patients as the demographic ages further. This second edition of Geriatrics for Specialists expands the number of specialist chapters to reflect growth in research in aging and clinical care for older people in dermatology, plastic surgery, and behavioral neurology. All original chapters from the first edition are extensively revised and updated to reflect the rapid growth of new knowledge in the field.

Creative Ageing and the Arts of Care

Creative Ageing and the Arts of Care
Author: Elizabeth Brooke
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2022-08-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1838674357

Making a case for cultural participation by older adults to enhance the quality of their lives and building on concepts of adult human development and empowerment, Elizabeth Brooke reframes 'active ageing' to include forms of creative expression and cultural participation crucial to transforming later stages of the life course.

Financial Assistance by Geographic Area

Financial Assistance by Geographic Area
Author: United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Finance
Publisher:
Total Pages: 644
Release:
Genre: Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN:

Financial Assistance by Geographic Area

Financial Assistance by Geographic Area
Author: United States. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare. Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary, Finance
Publisher:
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1978
Genre: Economic assistance, Domestic
ISBN: