This collection examines representations of Spanish queer aging through investigations of literary and cinematic representations of this demographic, offering a showcase for research on communities often made invisible due to age and sexual identity...Lasīt vairāk
The first book fully devoted to the impact of climate change the elderly, focusing on issues of critical importance: aging in place; health and age in a warming world; responsibility for the climate crisis; climate-conscious consumption; planning fo...Lasīt vairāk
This book discusses the global milk and dairy-food production trends, opportunities, and challenges along with the chemistry and microbiology of milk. The book also includes in-depth discussions of the immunomodulation potential of dairy foods parti...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1989, this title explores the lives of people who have lost sight in late life as a result of age-related visual disorders. As life-expectancy in western society has increased, the number of people who fall into this group has gro...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1977, Old Age in European Society provides an historical perspective on aging. Starting from the premise that the elderly can and should be active, participant members of their society the book examines the ways in which old...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1981, this book provides an in-depth study of how old age was experienced in contemporary Australian society at the time. It was the first major piece of original research on aging to be published in Australia and in several impor...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 socia...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1984, the title looks at the field of elderly care and domiciliary work from the perspective of social services. Starting with early influences that helped shape the development of Domiciliary Services, the author goes on to look...Lasīt vairāk
In this new and fully revised edition of Aging and Diversity, Chandra Mehrotra and Lisa Wagner address key topics in diversity and aging, discussing how the aging experience is affected by not only race and ethnicity but also gender, religious affil...Lasīt vairāk
Research studies involving antioxidants, free radicals, and human health are increasingly important global concerns. Free radicals and oxidative stress are responsible for various diseases including cancer, cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and pulm...Lasīt vairāk
In this book, originally published in 1987, two research disciplines social gerontology and sleep research are brought together with the aim of providing a straightforward account of how sleep is changed and disrupted by the biological and social...Lasīt vairāk
Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Diana Kuh, Rachel Cooper, Rebecca Hardy, Marcus Richards
Sērija : Life Course Approach to Adult Health
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Dec-2013, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199656516)
A Life Course Approach to Healthy Age investigates the lifetime determinants of healthy ageing and their implications for policy and practice, bringing together authorities in ageing research and knowledge transfer from across the world in one wide-...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Wiley Series in Protein and Peptide Science
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Feb-2013, Izdevniecība: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118493038)
As the lifespan of humans increases, research into aging and its related pathological conditions is gaining momentum. This book is the first to explain protein oxidation and the aging process, focusing on the connection between protein disturbances...Lasīt vairāk
One of the problems geriatricians are confronted with in everyday clinical practice is differentiating disease from the process of old age. The challenges of ageing require a better understanding of the essential biology of ageing in order to separa...Lasīt vairāk
In the twentieth century, all developed nations began to undergo unprecedented demographic changes, as their birth rates declined, and life expectancies increased significantly --an average of thirty years in less than a century...Lasīt vairāk
This text offers a readable and friendly presentation of the important methods, findings, and theories of human aging, while actively involving the reader in meaningful exercises and critical thinking....Lasīt vairāk
This revised and updated edition, with new sections on basic sciences and sexual dysfunction, unpicks normal physiologic aging in men from pathologic processes, in order to maintain a uniquely male perspective....Lasīt vairāk
Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, theoretical notions, and new research issues have been generated in the past 10 years. This new edition reviews new findings and theories....Lasīt vairāk
