Age & Ageing

First published in 1998, this book provides a professional and practical guide detailing social work interventions for people with dementia and their carers...

Human aging is a complex, multi-faceted experience that unfolds over an entire lifetime. While human aging is universal, it is also wildly variable, shaped by individual, social, cultural, political, geographic and historical contexts. Gerontology: The basics explores the field of research, educatio..

Given this variation in the context of global ageing as a backdrop, this edited book focuses on three overarching themes that are among the most critical to understand if societies are to age successfully in the twenty-first century and beyond: Healthy ageing and health care; the ageing workforce, r..

Long-Term Care: Matching Resources and Needs..

Later-life widowhood is the expectation of most older wives, but despite this, there has been little coverage of the complexities of later-life widowhood. Pat Chambers redresses this balance, combining an analysis of the literature that does exist with qualitative research amongst older widows...

Set within a national context, this book reviews the historical development and measurement issues of performance indicators within social care and the public sector for older people. It will be of particular interest in the UK for local service providers who are developing approaches for local perf..

This book brings together leading scholars to present an understanding of the processes underlying the very rapid population ageing in Central and Eastern Europe. In addition to discussing the main demographic drivers behind this development in each of the countries examined, this volume also discus..

This book brings together leading scholars to present an understanding of the processes underlying the very rapid population ageing in Central and Eastern Europe. In addition to discussing the main demographic drivers behind this development in each of the countries examined, this volume also discus..

This title was first published in 2001: This timely study examines the extent to which providers and clients of British statutory health and social care services have responded to government calls for recipients to be treated in the same way as private sector 'consumers'. Analysing the experiences o..

This title was first published in 2000. An up-to-date overview of the systems of social protection for the elderly in the fifteen EU states and Norway. The book also offers a comprehensive comparative analysis of the residential, semi-residential and community services available and explores the deb..

Supporting People with Dementia at Home details a groundbreaking study of an intensive care management scheme designed for older people with dementia that are at risk of entry into residential care. It offers valuable evidence on the factors which can maximize the independence and well being of olde..

Supporting People with Dementia at Home details a groundbreaking study of an intensive care management scheme designed for older people with dementia that are at risk of entry into residential care. It offers valuable evidence on the factors which can maximize the independence and well being of olde..