At the beginning of the 1980s, the previous few decades had been characterised by a population explosion amongst the older age groups. Due to the success of medical science at prolonging life, this phenomenon had been experienced throughout both...Lasīt vairāk
By the early 1970s the psychology of age was an important topic. In this book, first published in 1973, the authors are concerned with intellectual functioning. This is severely affected by psychiatric illness but the intellectual difficulties a...Lasīt vairāk
In the 1980s much research into the needs of the elderly was undertaken from the perspective of a sickness model, a model which reinforced labels of elderly people as frail, disabled, dependent and economically unproductive. Few studies adopted...Lasīt vairāk
Visual disability (including blindness) is of major significance among the elderly, and since it is so crucial to the quality of life of the elderly, it is necessary for all professional staff concerned with old people to have an understanding of...Lasīt vairāk
This 42-volume set has titles originally published between 1960 and 1995. The books examine all aspects of old people in an aging population, from health and physical activity to social care and housing. Providing health, psycho...Lasīt vairāk
During the 1970s and 1980s prescription and over-the-counter drugs had come to play a major role in the health care of older people. Originally published in 1986, this book reviews the historical background to this development and explores its soc...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1984, the overall purpose of this book was to provide ideas and suggestions about the usefulness of applied psychology in dealing with some of the problems of the elderly.Although many problems of the elderly are not...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1960 and revised in 1964 the blurb for Facing Retirement read: Mature men and women are not afraid of advancing years. More and more seek to prepare themselves for retirement so that they may then find all the happiness...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1988, the authors looked at the medicines prescribed for, and taken by, a nationally representative sample of elderly people. The experiences and views of both patients (elderly people) and professionals (general practition...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1982, in this book experts describe the geriatric services in Britain at the time, a country which had pioneered developments in this field over the previous thirty years. Much of the practical knowledge required to establi...Lasīt vairāk
During the 1970s housing and social welfare policy as it affected the elderly was changing throughout Western society. Conventional high-rise apartments and institutionalized nursing or residential homes were no longer the sole public responses to...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1973, this study describes the last 12 months in the lives of 785 adults. Based mainly on the reports of close relatives, it is concerned with the needs of the dying and the care they receive. This includes the more emotional as...Lasīt vairāk
In the 1960s, planning the development of services for the elderly was a subject of importance in Britain. First published in 1969, this book describes how a sample of local authorities were planning their services, how they estimated the need for...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1988, this title looks at why it is that women come to care, and considers the legacy of their caring experiences. Because caring is usually a labour of love, the feelings that surround it are complicated and fraught with ambiva...Lasīt vairāk
In 1980 old people comprised over half the clients of Local Authority Social Services Departments and accounted for about half of their resources, yet until then residential care of the aged had been a backwater of both research and practice. Duri...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1983, this study examined people over the age of 65 living in New York and London. The people were reinterviewed after one year to record their use of health services and symptoms, or the development of new symptoms. Social and...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1984, Domiciliary Services for the Elderly looks at the field of elderly care and particularly domiciliary work from the perspective of social services. Starting with the early influences that helped shape the develo...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1986, this title presents papers from the British Society of Gerontology annual conference in 1985. The areas covered include: the sociology of ageing, methodological issues, evaluations of service provision, ethnographies...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1977, Old Age in European Society provides an historical perspective on aging, a process which had received little attention from any group in the social sciences and virtually none from historians at the time. Start...Lasīt vairāk
In the late 1980s, the relationship between physical activity or exercise and aging was of great interest. The first edition of this book was a major review of the field. In this second edition, originally published in 1987, the author shows how f...Lasīt vairāk
