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  • Aging in European Societies

    Healthy Aging in Europe

    Edición de Constantinos Phellas ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Between longer life expectancies and declining birth rates, Europe’s elder population is growing into a sizable minority with considerable impact on nations, health systems, and economies—in other words, global implications as well as local and regional ones. Those investing in the health of older adults need a double perspective: the social and clinical complexity of aging and the larger forces ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

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  • Eternity Soup

    Inside the Quest to End Aging

    de Greg Critser ...
    Mix the latest and most rigorous scientific research, irrepressible old-fashioned entrepreneurship, and the ancient human desire to live forever (or at least a lot longer) and the result is today’s exploding multibillion-dollar antiaging industry. Its achievements are so far mostly marginal, but its promises flow with all the allure of a twenty-first-century fountain of youth. In Eternity Soup, ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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  • Aging Together

    Dementia, Friendship, and Flourishing Communities

    de Susan H. McFadden, John T. McFadden ...
    Never in human history have there been so many people entering old age—roughly one-third of whom will experience some form of neurodegeneration as they age. This seismic demographic shift will force us all to rethink how we live and deal with our aging population.Susan H. McFadden and John T. McFadden propose a radical reconstruction of our societal understanding of old age. Rather than ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Population Aging, Fertility and Social Security

    de Akira Yakita ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive, theory-based analysis of current issues in population economics. It addresses the most important problems caused by demographic changes using the popular overlapping generations growth model by Samuelson and Diamond. Taking into account families’ fertility decisions, it examines not only the demographic changes due to longer life expectancy but also the effects ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Germany's New Security Demographics

    Military Recruitment in the Era of Population Aging

    de Wenke Apt ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Military recruitment will become more difficult in times of demographic aging. The question arises whether demographic change will constrain the capacity of aging states like Germany to conduct foreign policy and pursue their national security interests. Since contemporary military operations still display a strong human element, particular scrutiny is given to the empirical analysis of the ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Aging in Hong Kong

    A Comparative Perspective

    Edición de Jean Woo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    With the longest life expectancy for men and the second longest for women, Hong Kong typifies our planet’s aging population. The daily lives of its older adults closely match the advantages and disadvantages experienced by urban elders in other developed countries. For these reasons, Hong Kong’s elderly serve as a salient guide to older people’s social, psychological, and healthcare needs—concerns ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Rural Aging in 21st Century America

    de J. V. Oh Edmund ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States. Population aging is one of the most important trends of the 20th and 21st centuries, and it is occurring worldwide, especially in more developed countries such as the United States. Population aging is more rapid in rural than urban areas of the U.S. In 2010, 15 ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Inverse Projection Techniques

    Old and New Approaches

    Edición de Elisabetta Barbi, Salvatore Bertino, Eugenio Sonnino ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Inverse Projection is a method for estimating accurate demographic indicators of a population where vital registration data are available, but population censuses are lacking or unreliable. The book offers an overview of the present state of methodological development in the field of inverse projection techniques. In the various chapters of the book, leading experts in demography and related ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Steps Toward a Planning Framework for Elder Care in the Arab World

    de William B. Ward, Mustafa Z. Younis ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book reviews the elder care literature pertaining to the Arab world and proposes steps that can be taken to improve the health and quality of life of older people in this region. Organized in three main sections (Program Assessment, Program Planning, Conclusions and Recommendations), the book addresses such topics as developing a conceptual framework; Arab world elder demographics; quality of ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Frontiers of Applied Demography

    Edición de David A. Swanson ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book details cutting-edge methods and findings that may shape the future of applied demography. Inside, readers will discover new insights into the databases, substantive issues, and methodological approaches that can help them to improve how they use demography in decision making and planning problems in both public and private settings.The topics and perspectives are found in the book’s 23 ... Leer más

    $107.99 USD

  • Death and Social Policy in Challenging Times

    Edición de Kate Woodthorpe, Liam Foster ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The study of death has the capacity to bring together a range of policy areas. Yet death is often overlooked within policy debates in the UK and beyond, and within gerontology. Bringing together a range of scholars engaged in policy associated with death, this collection provides a holistic account of how death factors in social policy. Within this, issues covered include inheritance, palliative ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Household and Living Arrangement Projections

    The Extended Cohort-Component Method and Applications to the U.S. and China

    de Yi Zeng, Kenneth C. Land, Danan Gu, Zhenglian Wang ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents an innovative demographic toolkit known as the ProFamy extended cohort-component method for the projection of household structures and living arrangements with empirical applications to the United States, the largest developed country, and China, the largest developing country. The ProFamy method uses demographic rates as inputs to project detailed distributions of household ... Leer más

    $143.09 USD