Ageing in SocietyJohn Bond, Sheila M Peace, Freya Dittmann-Kohli, Gerben Westerhof SAGE, 2007 M02 22 - 384 pages `Ageing in Society brings forth exciting new questions, fresh perspectives, and a necessary critical approach to key issues - this is indeed an authoritative introduction. The authors not only have made significant contributions to gerontology, but offer the reader considerations for what could be, not just what is, the design of old age in society. The book will inform students in ways that so many texts in the area, satisfied with comfortable bromides, do not′ - Jaber Gubrium, Editor of Journal of Aging Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia `This completely revised Third Edition of Ageing in Society presents one of the most comprehensive pictures of ageing today. Emphasising the dual processes of ageing societies and the experience of ageing, the book offers the reader - student or researcher alike - cogent discussions of the most up to date perspectives and evidence available. The contributors are all leading experts in their fields - comprising a range of important disciplines as they apply to ageing. Ageing in Society is a cutting edge text on one of the most important subjects facing the modern world - a must for all students of ageing′ - Mike Bury, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of London `The Third Edition of the comprehensive textbook Ageing in Society extends its scope to include continental Europe, allowing broader as well as deeper insights into recent trends in gerontology. Gerontologists and practitioners are urged not to stop reading before they have reached the insightful last chapter "Ageing into the future"!′ - Professor Dorly Deeg, Editor-in-Chief European Journal of Ageing The Third Edition of this popular and widely-used text provides a comprehensive introduction to the study of ageing, exploring the key theories, concepts and methods which the behavioural and social sciences contribute to the subject. Thoroughly revised and updated, Ageing in Society reflects new trends in gerontology, incorporating recent developments in theory and research as well as major international and interdisciplinary perspectives. A new chapter on cognitive ageing has been added and key themes, such as social protection, retirement, health and illness, and cultural images of old age are also critically examined. Ageing in Society was developed by the British Society of Gerontology to fulfil the need for an authoritative introduction to social gerontology. As such, it is an ideal resource for students and lecturers in the social and behavioural sciences, as well as for students and practitioners in health and social care. |
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... European Union 8 Understanding the complex causes of normal ageing and its intrinsic variability Environmental effects on lifespan: the example of Japan On compression of morbidity and mortality Life history trade-offs among British ...
... European Union have witnessed not only a decline in fertility – with particularly stark declines in Greece, Spain, Ireland, Poland and Portugal between 1980 and 2000 (OPOCE, 2002) – but perhaps more importantly an increasing life ...
... European Union where women live on average 6 years longer than men (81.2 years for women compared with 75.1 years for men). As a result of this greater life expectancy, in 2004 women made up 59% of those aged 65 years or more and, as ...
... European continent a very different historical and cultural profile from that of younger continents. Migration patterns are also subject to on-going development influenced by ... European Union European Commission THE AGEING WORLD 7.
... European Union European Commission (EC) 1967 • The EC was formed from a merger of the European Economic Community (Common Market); the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM). • Denmark ...
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