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Growing Old in the Twentieth Century
M. Jefferys
Paperback - $105.95
This century has witnessed a truly revolutionary shift in the age composition of the world's industrialized countries. While fewer children have been born to each successive generation, more of them have survived into middle and old age, and an incre ...
Refuge of the Honored
Yasuhito Kinoshita
Hardcover - $128.95
Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive growth of the over-65 population, the Japanese are looking for new ways to care for their elders. This timely study documents the birth of a major social phenomenon in Japan--the plan ...
Age Speaks for Itself : Silent Voices of the Elderly
Tom Koch
Hardcover - $54.95
This is the long awaited third book in Tom Koch's trilogy on aging, Age Speaks for Itself. Mirrored Lives was a detailed first person account of geriatric illness from the perspective of the caregiver. It was followed by A Place in Time; here the iss ...
A Fresh Map of Life : The Emergence of the Third Age
Peter Laslett
Paperback - $47.95
Everyone needs a fresh map of life, since we live in a world of relationships that we do not understand. The doubling of the duration of human life and the appearance in the last decade or two of the Third Age have transformed the landscape of everyo ...
Coping with Public Tragedy
Marcia Lattanzi-Licht
Paperback - $51.95
What causes some events to be perceived as public tragedies? Some tragedies are raised to a level of public attention that necessarily separates them from the multitude of horrific events that transpire all the time. Deaths and disasters touch the li ...
Coping with Aging
Richard S. Lazarus
Hardcover - $75.95
Coping with Aging is the final project of the late Richard S. Lazarus, the man whose landmark book Emotion and Adaptation put the study of emotion in play in the field of psychology. In this volume, Lazarus examines the experience of aging from the s ...
Encyclopedia of Health and Aging
Kyriakos Markides
Hardcover - $294.95
As an ever increasing percentage of the population of western societies enters "old age," health issues grow in importance in terms of the well-being of this population, economic impact within the health-care system, impacts on families and family re ...