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  • Exercise Programming for Older Adults

    de Janie Clark ...
    The exercise programming guidelines provided in this book focus on functional fitness training and safety and demonstrate how physical activities supervised by activities personnel can strongly benefit participants’quality of life. Exercise Programming for Older Adults guarantees that exercise programming attains a balance between the three major physical components--aerobic, strength, and ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

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  • The Caregivers

    A Support Group's Stories of Slow Loss, Courage, and Love

    de Nell Lake ...
    A moving, intimate, and compassionate book that chronicles the experiences of a group of long-term caregivers—spouses, parents, and friends of the elderly and ill—illuminating critical issues of old age, end-of-life care, medical reform, and social policy—and “providing comfort in the time-honored form of shared experience” (The Minneapolis Star-Tribune).In 2010, journalist Nell Lake began sitting ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The Lioness in Winter

    Writing an Old Woman's Life

    de Ann Burack-Weiss ...
    When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the crevices and chasms that constitute the rocky terrain of old age. The professional gerontological ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Connecting through Music with People with Dementia

    A Guide for Caregivers

    de Robin Rio ...
    For people with dementia, the world can become a lonely and isolated place. Music has long been a vital instrument in transcending cognitive issues; bringing people together, and allowing a person to live in the moment. Connecting through Music with People with Dementia explains how a caregiver can learn to use melody or rhythm to connect with someone who may be otherwise non-responsive, and how ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Age Matters

    Re-Aligning Feminist Thinking

    de Toni M. Calasanti, Kathleen F. Slevin ...
    This volume of original chapters is designed to bring attention to a neglected area of feminist scholarship - aging. After several decades of feminist studies we are now well informed of the complex ways that gender shapes the lives of women and men. Similarly, we know more about how gendered power relations interface with race and ethnicity, class and sexual orientation. Serious theorizing of old ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Design for Nature in Dementia Care

    de Garuth Chalfont ...
    Series series University of Bradford Dementia Good Practice Guides
    Maintaining a connection to nature is increasingly recognised as an important component of caring for a person with dementia. Design for Nature in Dementia Care provides comprehensive examples of ways to connect to nature through indoor and outdoor activities.The author describes a wide range of activities that offer a connection to nature, such as caring for house plants and pets, gardening and ... Leer más

    $32.79 USD

  • Towards Human Rights in Residential Care for Older Persons

    International Perspectives

    Edición de Helen Meenan, Nicola Rees, Israel Doron ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Human Rights Law
    People are leading significantly longer lives than previous generations did, and the proportion of older people in the population is growing. Residential care for older people will become increasingly necessary as our society ages and, we will require more of it. At this moment in time, the rights of older people receive attention at international and regional levels, with the United Nations, the ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • A Personal Guide to Living with Progressive Memory Loss

    de Sandy Burgener, Prudence Twigg ...
    Memory loss can create problems in every aspect of a person's life. The challenge of communicating thoughts and feelings can be made even harder by other people's negative perceptions of dementia.This book provides practical guidance for coping with progressive memory loss, and includes examples of real people who have faced similar challenges. These stories highlight both good and bad ways to ... Leer más

    $22.09 USD

  • The Silvering Screen

    Old Age and Disability in Cinema

    de Sally Chivers ...
    Popular films have always included elderly characters, but until recently, old age only played a supporting role onscreen. Now, as the Baby Boomer population hits retirement, there has been an explosion of films, including Away From Her, The Straight Story, The Barbarian Invasions, and About Schmidt, where aging is a central theme.The first-ever sustained discussion of old age in cinema, The ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Grandparents as Carers of Children with Disabilities

    Facing the Challenges

    de Phillip Mccallion, Matthew Janicki ...
    Older adults caring for developmentally disabled children have special needs. Are you and your agency doing all you can to help?Grandparents as Carers of Children with Disabilities: Facing the Challenges provides the first comprehensive picture of grandparents caring for children with developmental disabilities and their related requirements. Here you'll find information on the mental and physical ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Housing for the Elderly

    Policy and Practice Issues

    Edición de Philip McCallion ...
    Find out how housing options for the elderly are changing—and not always for the betterTo maintain or improve their quality of life, many seniors in the United States will move to new locations and into new types of housing. Housing for the Elderly addresses the key aspects of the transitions they’ll face, examines how housing programs can help, and looks at the role social workers can play to ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Whistling Women

    A Study of the Lives of Older Lesbians

    de J Dianne Garner, Cheryl Claassen ...
    Gain first-hand knowledge of how today's lesbians aged 60 and over survived the 20th century!I didn’t know we were lesbians. We lived together 13 years!Whistling Women is a unique, candid collection of the life experiences of 44 lesbians between 62 and 82 years of age. This book explores new ground with interviews about their memories, feelings, and thoughts on a diversity of perspectivesfrom ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD