Ageing and globalisation (Ageing in a Global Context) by Martin Hyde,Paul Higgs

Faces of Aging: The Lived Experiences of the Elderly in Japan

The undeniable fact of Japan's quickly getting older inhabitants has been identified for it slow. yet past records and implications for the longer term, we don't comprehend a lot in regards to the genuine getting older procedure. Senior voters and their different reports have, for the main half, been obscured by means of stereotypes. This interesting new choice of study at the aged works to place a human face on getting older through contemplating a number of dimensions of the getting older adventure in Japan.

Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and Leisure: Issues, Policy, and Practice

In the event you paintings with older adults who're developmentally disabled and are trying to find how you can include workout, arts actions, and different actions into your application, this can be the e-book for you! Older Adults With Developmental Disabilities and rest can help you enhance your skill to tutor workout and different health actions and, while, bring up your wisdom approximately getting older and psychological retardation and developmental disabilities.

Alzheimer's Disease, Media Representations and the Politics of Euthanasia: Constructing Risk and Selling Death in an Ageing Society

Drawing on vast information together with information media stories and commentaries, documentaries, courts and courtroom studies, motion pictures, web content, expert literature and govt and non-government companies, this booklet explores the 'Alzheimerisation' of the euthanasia debate, reading the shift in recent times in public attitudes in the direction of the desirability and ethical permissibility of euthanasia as an end-of-life 'solution' for individuals residing with the ailment - not only at its finish level, but in addition at prior phases.

Old People in Three Industrial Societies

Robert and Helen Lynd's Middletown set the layout in sociological concept and perform for hundreds of thousands of reports within the many years following its e-book in 1929. outdated humans in 3 commercial Societies could set comparable criteria for reviews in its fi eld for a few years to return. as well as reaching a signifi cant leap forward within the growth of socio logical learn innovations, the publication bargains a enormous cross-cultural exposition of the well-being, relatives relationships, and social and financial prestige of the elderly in 3 countries-the usa, Britain, and Denmark.