Age & Ageing

This title was first published in 2000:  Addressing issues of social justice and equal citizenship, this important collection of papers brings together contributions from the UK and Canada to examine the development of education for older adults against the background of an ageing population and the..

Scholars are increasingly incorporating various modalities from the humanities and arts to help connect students with the experience of aging in meaningful ways. This book examines how these approaches are incorporated into gerontology and geriatrics education. It was originally published as a speci..

Towards Quality Care..

This volume explores issues of aging in contexts that are no longer limited to the framework of a single nation-state. It gathers an international range of contributors to examine the micro level of everyday life, biographical projects and identities of the elderly, the meso level of social security..

How can we conceptualize and measure the personal well-being of older people? What research agenda and policy reforms are necessary to maintain decent well-being for older people, in the context of aging populations? This book presents conceptualization and measurement of the multidimensional measur..