Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“erdman palmore”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “erdman palmore”
Skip side bar filters

  • Normal Aging III

    Reports from the Duke Longitudinal Studies, 1975–1984

    Edited by Erdman Palmore, Ewald W. Busse, George L. Maddox, John B. Nowlin, Ilene C. Siegler ...
    Since they began in 1955, the Duke Longitudinal Studies have aging have been regarded as landmark investigations, amassing invaluable data on the typical physical changes that accompany aging, typical patterns of mental health and mental illness, psychological aging, and the normal social roles, self-concepts, satisfactions, and adjustments to retirement of the aged. Comprising information on more ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Normal Aging II

    Reports from the Duke Longitudinal Studies, 1970–1973

    Edited by Erdman Palmore ...
    Since they began in 1955, the Duke Longitudinal Studies have aging have been regarded as landmark investigations, amassing invaluable data on the typical physical changes that accompany aging, typical patterns of mental health and mental illness, psychological aging, and the normal social roles, self-concepts, satisfactions, and adjustments to retirement of the aged. Comprising information on more ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • At Eighty-Two

    A Journal

    by May Sarton ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author of At Seventy returns with a memoir about advancing age, including her experience with a series of strokes.In this poignant and fearless account, Sarton chronicles the struggles of life at eighty-two. She juxtaposes the quotidian details of life—battling a leaky roof, sharing an afternoon nap with her cat, the joy of buying a new mattress—with lyrical musings ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Make Your Care Home Fun

    Simple Activities for People of All Abilities

    by Kenneth Agar ...
    As we grow older, our need to be engaged in interesting activities does not diminish and is vital to our quality of life. How to Make Your Care Home Fun examines the need for activities for elderly people in care and offers a practical programme of entertaining activities that can be used in nursing and residential homes, day centres, rehabilitation centres and hospices.As well as suggesting a ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

  • Global Aging and Challenges to Families

    Edited by Vern Bengtson ...
    The recent explosion in population ageing across the globe represents one of the most remarkable demographic changes in human history. Population ageing will profoundly affect families. Who will care for the growing numbers of tomorrows very old members of societies? Will it be state governments? The aged themselves? Their families? The purpose of this book is to examine consequences of global ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Demography of Europe

    Edited by Gerda Neyer, Gunnar Andersson, Hill Kulu, Laura Bernardi, Christoph Bühler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Over the past decades Europe has witnessed fundamental changes of its population dynamics and population structure. Fertility has fallen below replacement level in almost all European countries, while childbearing behavior and family formation have become more diverse. Life expectancy has increased in Western Europe for both females and males, but has been declining for men in some Eastern ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Leisure Seeker

    A Novel

    by Michael Zadoorian ...
    Now a major film starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, a novel "like life itself: joyous, painful, moving, tragic, mysterious, and not to be missed" ( Booklist, starred review).The Robinas have shared a wonderful life for more than sixty years. Now in their eighties, Ella suffers from cancer and John has Alzheimer's. Yearning for one last adventure, the self-proclaimed "down-on-their-luck ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Never Say Die

    The Myth and Marketing of the New Old Age

    by Susan Jacoby ...
    Susan Jacoby, an unsparing chronicler of unreason in American culture, now offers an impassioned, tough-minded critique of the myth that a radically new old age—unmarred by physical or mental deterioration, financial problems, or intimate loneliness—awaits the huge baby boom generation. Combining historical, social, and economic analysis with personal experiences of love and loss, Jacoby turns a ... Read more

    Was $8.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • This Chair Rocks

    A Manifesto Against Ageism

    by Ashton Applewhite ...
    Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age.In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • An Introduction to Gerontology

    Edited by Ian Stuart-Hamilton ...
    With the world's population getting increasingly older, there has never been a more pressing need for the study of old age and ageing. An Introduction to Gerontology provides a wide-ranging introduction to this important topic. By assuming no prior expert knowledge and avoiding jargon, this book will guide students through all the main subjects in gerontology, covering both traditional areas, such ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Take Care, Son

    The Story of My Dad and his Dementia

    by Tony Husband ...
    'Hi Dad . . . can we have a chat about your dementia . . . Can you remember how it started?'When Ron Husband started to forget things - dates, names, appointments . . . daft things, important things - it took a while to realise that this was 'a different form of forgetting'. But it was just the first sign of the illness that gradually took him away from the family he loved.This is the touching, ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $2.99 USD

  • Physical Change and Aging

    A Guide for the Helping Professions, Fifth Edition

    by Sue V. Saxon, PhD, Mary Jean Etten, EdD, GNP, CMP, FT, Elizabeth A. Perkins, PhD, RNLD, FAAIDD, FGSA ...
    "[This book] has been honedÖinto an elegant compendium. This outstanding work should be widely read -- it is perhaps the best example of an integrative approach to gerontology." Score: 94, 4 stars--Doody'sThis book serves as an authoritative textbook and guide to the physical changes and common pathologies associated with the aging process, with special emphasis on the psychological and social ... Read more

    $93.99 USD