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  • Historical Reflections on Care in the Western World

    Caring for the Elderly 

    de Beatrice Hale ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book paints a vivid picture of caregiving for the elderly throughout history, using the innovative concept of a 'carerscape'. Inspired by Appadurai's 'ethnoscape', this framework highlights diverse aspects of caregiving across time and cultures. From kin and household members to spiritual, legal, and community-based systems, the book explores the evolution of care. Chapters delve into ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • The Age of Supported Independence

    Voices of In-home Care

    de Beatrice Hale, Patrick Barrett, Robin Gauld ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates the experiences of older people who remain at home with care. It examines the transition points for the important life changes faced by family members who take on a greater care-giving role.The book draws on demographic analyses and qualitative fieldwork to explore the shift from independence to increasing dependence, and suggests that this transition constitutes movement ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Family Care and Social Capital: Transitions in Informal Care

    de Patrick Barrett, Beatrice Hale, Mary Butler ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Becoming a caregiver is increasingly an inevitable experience for many people and, therefore, a likely life transition. Drawing on research and personal experiences of working with family caregivers, this book examines a range of family caregiving situations from across the life course. It seeks to capture the dynamics of caregiving in a number of common situations: caregiving during infancy, for ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

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  • Ageism and Mistreatment of Older Workers

    Current Reality, Future Solutions

    Edición de Patricia Brownell, James J. Kelly ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book promotes an understanding of ageism, discrimination and mistreatment of older adult workers, incorporating an international human rights perspective. The impact of ageism on the mistreatment of older adult workers has not to date been examined in depth through the lens of international human rights instruments, nor has discrimination against older adults in the workplace been framed as a ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Aging, Health, and Longevity in the Mexican-Origin Population

    Edición de Jacqueline L. Angel, Fernando Torres-Gil, Kyriakos Markides ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Aging, Health, and Longevity in the Mexican-Origin Population creates a foundation for an interdisciplinary discussion of the trajectory of disability and long-term care for older people of Mexican-origin from a bi-national perspective. Although the literature on Latino elders in the United States is growing, few of these studies or publications offer the breadth and depth contained in this book. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Reforms in Long-Term Care Policies in Europe

    Investigating Institutional Change and Social Impacts

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Environmental Gerontology in Europe and Latin America

    Policies and Perspectives on Environment and Aging

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work

    de Parin Dossa, Cati Coe, Neda Deneva, Yanqiu Rachel Zhou, Kristin Elizabeth Yarris, Erin L. Raffety, Mushira Mohsin Khan, Karen Kobayashi, Loretta Baldassar0, Delores V. Mullings1 ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • Managing Improvement in Healthcare

    Attaining, Sustaining and Spreading Quality

    Edición de Aoife M. McDermott, Mark Exworthy, Martin Kitchener ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Reflecting the challenges and opportunities of achieving improvement in healthcare systems, the contributions of this innovative new text lend depth and nuance to an increasing area of academic debate. Encompassing context, processes and agency, Managing Improvements in Healthcare addresses the task of attaining, embedding and sustaining improvement in the industry. The book begins by offering ... Leer más

    $152.99 USD

  • The Effects of Aging and Environment on Vision

    Edición de Donald Armstrong, Michael F. Marmor, J. Mark Ordy ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book derives from a symposium conducted in San Francisco CA, entitled "Environmental Design for Optimum Vision in the Elderly" that was sponsored by the American Aging Association, October 11-12, 1985. Presentations from this symposium comprise the core content of this volume. However, manuscripts have also been accepted from additional authors whose topics and research findings increase the ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD

  • Population Health Management for Poly Chronic Conditions

    Evidence-Based Research Approaches

    de Thomas T.H. Wan ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book is dedicated to population health management and how it can be used to improve the health care and outcomes for patients with poly chronic conditions. The book uses an integrated approach guided by a transdisciplinary orientation that incorporates both a macro and a micro-theoretical framework for promoting population health management. Thus, policy decision makers can prioritize how ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Paid Work Beyond Pension Age

    Comparative Perspectives

    Edición de Simone Scherger ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In many countries, the number of people working beyond pension age is increasing. This volume investigates this trend in seven different countries, examining the contexts of this development and the consequences of the shifting relationship between work and retirement. ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD