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  • Independent for Life

    Homes and Neighborhoods for an Aging America

    Edited by Henry Cisneros, Margaret Dyer-Chamberlain, Jane Hickie ...
    Do you want to age independently in your own home and neighborhood? Staying home, aging in place, is most people's preference, but most American housing and communities are not adapted to the needs of older people. And with the fastest population growth among people over 65, finding solutions for successful aging is important not only for individual families, but for our whole society. In ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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  • Housing, Urban Renewal and Socio-Spatial Integration

    A Study on Rehabilitating the Former Socialistic Public Housing Areas in Beijing

    by Xiaoxi Hui ...
    This issue of A+BE addresses two critical urban issues China faces today: housing and urban renewal. In the recent two decades, the Chinese urban housing stock underwent a significant, if not extreme, transformation. From 1949 to 1998, the urban housing stock in China largely depended on the public sector, and a large amount of public housing areas were developed under the socialistic public ... Read more

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  • Beyond Smart Cities

    How Cities Network, Learn and Innovate

    by Tim Campbell ...
    The promise of competitiveness and economic growth in so-called smart cities is widely advertised in Europe and the US. The promise is focussed on global talent and knowledge economies and not on learning and innovation. But to really achieve smart cities – that is to create the conditions of continuous learning and innovation – this book argues that there is a need to understand what is below the ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Design First

    by David Walters, Linda Brown ...
    Well-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives, policies and design principles for planning new communities and redeveloping existing urban neighborhoods. Drawing from their extensive experience, the authors explain how better plans (and consequently better places) can be created by applying the three-dimensional principles of ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Arts and Culture for Older People in Singapore: An Annotated Bibliography

    by Belinda Yuen, Penny Kong ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book combines in a single volume numerous studies concerning the use of arts and culture to enhance quality of life, health and wellbeing among older people, especially in Singapore. The bibliography covers not only research conducted in Singapore (both published and grey literature), but also a global body of work encompassing the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and North America. In addition to ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Cities and Nature

    by Lisa Benton-Short, John Rennie Short ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated with in-depth examination of theory and critical themes. Greater discussion is ... Read more

    $135.99 CAD

  • Evaluation in Dementia Care

    Edited by Anthea Innes, Louise McCabe ...
    This authoritative collection sets out the critical role and application of evaluation in identifying and developing good practice in a range of dementia care settings.The contributors discuss the evaluation of care at different levels and in various settings, particularly long stay care, covering evaluation methods, ethics, use of technology and the user's role in the evaluation process itself. ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Home Health Care Provider

    A Guide to Essential Skills

    by Emily Prieto, MBA, LSW ...
    This book is designed to foster quality care to home care recipients. It is written for companions, home health aides, and other care givers who deliver non-medical home care. Prieto provides information, tips, and techniques on personal care routines as well as additional responsibilities that are often necessary in this work, including home safety and maintenance, meal planning, errand running, ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • Reforms in Long-Term Care Policies in Europe

    Investigating Institutional Change and Social Impacts

    Edited by Costanzo Ranci, Emmanuele Pavolini ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Over the last two decades, many changes have happened to the social welfare policies of various industrial countries. Citizens have seen their pensions, unemployment benefits, and general healthcare policies shrink as “belt tightening” measures are enforced. But in contrast, long-term care has seen a general growth in public financing, an expansion of beneficiaries, and, more generally, an attempt ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Digital Welfare for the Third Age

    Health and social care informatics for older people

    Edited by Brian D. Loader, Michael Hardey, Leigh Keeble ...
    This book is about the ways digital technology can contribute to the welfare of older people. The Internet, mobile phones and other technologies have changed how we live and work. Such technologies also shape how services for older people are organised in ways that potentially place carers and older people at the centre of service provision. Telecare can make homes ‘smart’ so that they are more ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Environmental Gerontology in Europe and Latin America

    Policies and Perspectives on Environment and Aging

    Edited by Diego Sánchez-González, Vicente Rodríguez-Rodríguez ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book looks at the relationships between the physical-social environment and the elderly in Europe and Latin America, from the Environmental Gerontology perspective and through geographical and psychosocial approaches. It addresses the main environmental issues of population ageing, based on an understanding of the complex relationships, adjustments and adaptations between different ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • Perspectives on Care at Home for Older People

    Edited by Christine Ceci, Kristín Björnsdóttir, Mary Ellen Purkis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
    Demographic and epidemiological changes mean that frail older people have come to be seen as an expensive problem for health care systems. The challenge for professionals and policy-makers is to find ways to respond to the coming crisis by delivering high-quality care in the home. This collection offers a critical analysis of home care policy and practice. It focuses on how high-quality care is ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD