Age groups: the elderly Books

Navigating the Journey of Aging Parents proposes an entirely unique approach to the field of gerontology, giving dependent care receivers a voice.  Caregivers will be made aware of what care receivers truly want during life's final chapters...

Focus Your Energy and Time to Achieve Outstanding Personal and Professional Results With Absolute Certainty and Excitement.What if you could increase your success, health, and happiness with a few simple steps? How would your life be different if you had...

The Slow Disappearing is a deftly crafted plot about a family, both frozen in time and careening into an uncertain future. A mother in the throes of dementia, fears the loss of words over the loss of life. The protagonist, trapped in her new role as the...

Memoir depends on recollection—not only the particulars of experience, but the emotions, reflections, and even the daydreams elicited. Bob Zumwalt uses memory and imagination to tell the poignant, the fanciful, and the humorous moments of his life...

"Just Another Day in the Retirement Home" is a memoir about an eight year journey experienced by Janet Fraser, whose aging parents were living their final years in a retirement home. It is a poignant journey of the heart, from the first...

Learn about the exciting possibilities for maintaining elderly residents in their own homes by marshalling available resources to pay for needed support services. Experienced practitioners provide examples of successful community-based long-term care...

Living Is for Living: A Caregiver's Story presents a real-time look at the multi-layered experience of caring for an elder with Alzheimer's disease and other health challenges, while also being there for a spouse, children, and house full of pets...

Looking for perfect gift for Seniors? "Natural Wonders Picture Book" contains 40 Premium photos of 'Natural Wonders' of the World, color printed on quality 70lb paper.They are very popular as picture books for people with dementia, and are also...

O que isolamento traz a você? Neste livro, a autora oferece, em texto poético e filosófico, com belas imagens, um campo vasto de significados sobre o ato de ficar sozinho. Muitos encontros e descobertas acontecem nesse momento. Um livro que é excelente...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Alter, Note: 1,0, Technische Universität Dresden, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Zentrum dieser Arbeit steht der Kapitalbegriff Piere Bourdieus, als Grundlage sozialen Handelns, der auf den...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Alter, Note: 1,0, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Veranstaltung: Proseminar Arbeit und Beruf im Lebenslauf: Verrentungsprozesse im internationalen Vergleich, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ziel...

Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Alter, Note: 1,3, Universität Hamburg (Institut für Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Versorgung im Alter. Dabei sollen nicht alle...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Alter, Note: 1,7, Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, früher: Berufsakademie Stuttgart, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In unserer modernen Gesellschaft, in der Individualität und...

In the rural mining town of Rupland, baseball is a religion that keeps the town alive. Here, the best little league baseball in the country is played, and boys dream of donning the orange and black colors of their idols.Jack— the leader,...

What happens when, long-partnered and no longer youthful, we are suddenly left alone and uncoupled? Here is a book that embraces the will, the spirit of such a challenge. Here are stories of how an older man or woman may avoid a barren middle...

本書通過對加拿大老人生活狀態的描寫，介紹了加拿大老人保障的建制和運作，體現了加拿大的制度和社會，探討了加拿大老人的過往和現狀。 亞堅，本名廖中堅，是老三届、知青、七七級。一九五零年生於廣東中山，文革就讀廣西師院附中，其後下鄉七年，恢復高考錄取到桂林市師專。一九八三年移民溫哥華，得閑自娛，讀過、寫過、發表過，多是描寫文革、故鄉以及海外華人的故事。

Valle Egypt is a provocative story of financial elder abuse and the demise of a sixty-year family farm.Valle Egypt is a case study that affords readers the opportunity to better understand the serious consequences of financial elder abuse while providing...

This book is about caring for elderly persons in the 21th century. It shows that care has many facets and is influenced by many factors. Central topics of this book thus include the relation between the person depending on care and the care giver(s), the...

Nations around the world are experiencing a spectacular increase in longevity. Society as a whole is being challenged by issues arising from this revolution in longevity. Although the specter of the loneliness and ...

"This is Hannah," Lynne Hugo introduces her chocolate Labrador retriever to an aged woman in a wheelchair at the Golden View Nursing Home. "Would you like to pat her?""I don't know," the woman responds warily. "Dogs are complicated."So, of course, is...

This short novel shares all the personal highs and lows of one B.C. teacher and her husband upon entering into retirement. It is a humorous look at elderly parent care, selling the family home, dealing with disgruntled siblings and estates, and suddenly...

Karen Cumming and Patricia Milne are sisters who embarked on a daunting journey... one that many of us may go on at some point in our lives. They guided their 98 year old mother, Verna, through Ontario's long-term care system. Unfortunately, few...

The growing number of elder men providing hands-on care to loved ones, particularly spouses, undeniably represents a hidden segment of the home care population. With that in consideration, caregiving in communities of color, in particular, is increasing...

While one in five of us will need significant assistance with the activities of daily living or long-term care for more than five years, costing as much as $100,000 per year, about 50% of women ages 55 to 66 have no personal retirement savings. ...

"Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Demystified: Doctor's Secret Guide" is your invaluable companion for comprehending, managing, and finding hope in the face of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). This comprehensive guide is a beacon of knowledge and support...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Gesundheit - Gerontologie, Note: 1,7, Technische Universität Dortmund, Veranstaltung: Gesundheit im Alter: Epidemiologische, sozialwissenschaftliche und verhaltenswissenschaftliche Grundlagen, Sprache:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Alter, Note: 1,0, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Institut für Psychogerontologie), Veranstaltung: Theoriebildung in der Gerontologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Alter, Note: 1,7, Universität Hamburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Begriff "demographischer Wandel" bezeichnet zunächst nur die Veränderung der Altersstruktur einer Gesellschaft, wobei...

Masterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Alter, Note: 1,5, Steinbeis-Hochschule Berlin, Veranstaltung: Master of Business Administration, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Projekte in Institutionen der Altersbetreuung, an deren Zustandekommen...

Longtime spiritual counselor and teacher, Jo Ann Levitt outlines ways to transform the joys and challenges of aging into a novel spiritual path, taking advantage of the built-in spirituality within the aging process itself in her latest work: The...

Es una guía concisa para atravesar los desgarradores desafíos de tener a un ser querido diagnosticado con la enfermedad de Alzheimer u otras demencias.A través de un rico tesoro de historias extraídas de sus años en la industria del cuidado de los...

How do our life experiences shape who we are and how do we find our purpose? In Waking up to Feeling: An Expressive Journey of Intentional Healing, Alexandra Cabot bravely tells her inspiring life story, sharing insights gained from years spent searching...

I put my own father in prison. 16 years of sexual abuse and threats. 16 years of fear and silence. 16 years of forced smiling and resilience. 10 years of studies. 7 years of pregnancy. 4 years of criminal trials. 10 years of marriage. 5 years of...

Are you reaching a more mature stage in life and looking for a new relationship? Are you tentatively returning to the dating arena following the end of a relationship? Do you want to successfully find the man of your dreams and avoid the many...

Do you know that there are over 50 million senior citizens over 65 age in the U.S. alone? The seniors are growing by millions! In fact, the elderly population in America is projected to double over the next 25 years, rising faster than the overall...

When you die, there are so many things your family and loved ones immediately need to know. Two Envelopes is your voice, conveying your wishes regarding your death and your estate.With a unique blend of wisdom, humor and empathetic storytelling, Rusty...

The Handbook of Sociology of Aging is the most comprehensive, engaging, and up-to-date treatment of developments within the field over the past 30 years. The volume represents an indispensable source of the freshest and highest...

China, which is fast on its way to becoming the most powerful economic force in the world, has four unique characteristics that distinguish it from other countries in Asia: (1) The proportion of aging population is growing faster than that of Japan (the...

Nursing homes are where some of the most vulnerable live and work. In too many homes, the conditions of work make it difficult to make care as good as it can be. For the last eight years an international team from Germany, Sweden, Norway, the UK, the US...

This unique book sheds new light on the most invisible members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. Hidden from view by a combination of prevailing cultural assumptions and their own unwillingness to be seen, older lesbians...

How To Take Care of Old People Without Losing Your Marbles navigates you through turn after turn of the most vexing eldercare issues - helping you organize your eldercare scenario just like you would a business project. Alongside the practical...

This publication represents the report of the Scenario Committee on Ageing. The draft report was discussed with a wide range of experts, inter alia during the symposium 'Growing Old in the Future' held on October 27th, 1984. In...

During a camping trip around Australia with some family members in 2019, Don Kemsley recorded some of the experiences and sights of their trip in coloured crayon drawings, with comments. An experienced children's illustrator, the former pastor captures...

Are you striving to appreciate the older people in your life?With Age Comes... offers insight into older people through story. From stench-spreading old farmers to nurses who never quite retire, from war veterans to matchmaking nanas, from empty nesters...

This timely book explores what it is like to live in an aged care home: the expectations that new residents and their families enter with, their relationships with fellow residents and formal caregivers, and how they approach, in different ways, the...

Through a study of the port district of Rio de Janeiro and its history, from its emergence as a major slave market to its modern-day incarnation as a hub of tourism, real estate and financial speculation, this book examines the different dimensions of...