English | 2022 | ISBN: 0190326239 | 421 pages | True EPUB | 18.45 MB
A comprehensive and accessible introduction to the diverse aspects of ageing and aged care.

Avoiding the Ageing Parent Trap: How to plan ahead and prevent legal andfamily issues by Brian Herd
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1922488011 | 305 pages | EPUB | 0.71 Mb
Informative and insightful, this is the essential family guide to preparing for ageing parents.

Ageing Asia and the Pacific in Changing Times
pdf, epub | 8.77 MB | English | Isbn:‎ B09RPF6QND | Author: Subas Dhakal, Alan Nankervis, John Burgess | Year: 2022

A Multidisciplinary Approach to Capability in Age and Ageing
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030780627 | 266 Pages | PDF EPUB | 7 MB
This open access book provides insight on how to interpret capability in ageing - one's individual ability to perform actions in order to reach goals one has reason to value - from a multidisciplinary approach. With for the first time in history there being more people in the world aged 60 years and over than there are children below the age of 5, the book describes this demographic trends as well as the large global challenges and important societal implications this will have such as a worldwide increase in the number of persons affected with dementia, and in the ratio of retired persons to those still in the labor market. Through contributions from many different research areas, it discussed how capability depends on interactions between the individual (e.g. health, genetics, personality, intellectual capacity), environment (e.g. family, friends, home, work place), and society (e.g. political decisions, ageism, historical period). The final chapter summarizes the differences and similarities in these contributions. As such this book provides an interesting read for students, teachers and researchers at different levels and from different fields interested in capability and multidisciplinary research.

English | 2020 | ISBN: 1789143500 | 280 pages | True PDF | 12.62 MB
The meaning of life is a common concern, but what is the meaning of midlife? With the help of illustrious writers such as Dante, Montaigne, Beauvoir, Goethe and Beckett,The Midlife Mindsets out to answer this question. Erudite but engaging, it takes a personal approach to that most impersonal of processes, ageing. From the ancients to the moderns, from poets to playwrights, writers have long meditated on how we can remain creative as we move through our middle years. There are no better guides, then, to how we have regarded middle age in the past, how we understand it in the present, and how we might make it as rewarding as possible in the future.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 9781003259329 | 348 pages | True PDF | 4.61 MB
This volume presents a range of research approaches to the exploration of ageing during a pandemic situation. One of the first collections of its kind, it offers an array of studies employing research methodologies that lend themselves to replication in similar contexts by those seeking to understand the effects of epidemics on older people. Thematically organised, it shows how to reconcile qualitative and quantitative approaches, thus rendering them complementary, bringing together studies from around the world to offer an international perspective on ageing as it relates to an unprecedented epidemiological phenomenon. As such, it will appeal to researchers in the field of gerontology, as well as sociologists of medicine and clinicians seeking to understand the disruptive effects of the recent coronavirus outbreak on later life.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 8770224374 , 978-8770224376 | 164 pages | True PDF | 37.78 MB
Given the increase in the ageing population and the evolvement of the Human-Computer Interaction field to a much more humanistic approach, debate is ongoing about designing technology-enabled products for active ageing and healthy lifestyles. Indeed, the mainstream game industry has been challenged with the emergence of an older target group, the advancements in gamification and the proliferation of SMART devices.

Simon Hayhoe, "Cultural Heritage, Ageing, Disability, and Identity: Practice, and the development of inclusive capital "
English | ISBN: 1138555371 | 2019 | 212 pages | PDF | 1107 KB
Cultural Heritage, Ageing, Disability, and Identity examines the effects of disability and ageing on engagement with cultural heritage and associated cultural identity formation processes. Combining theory with detailed case study research, it unpicks both the current state of play and future directions.

Ageing, Gender and Family Law by Beverley Clough and Jonathan Herring
English | Mar 26, 2018 | ISBN: 1138744948, 0367404435 | 254 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book explores the intersecting issues relating the phenomenon of ageing to gender and family law. The latter has tended to focus mainly on family life in young and middle age; and, indeed, the issues of childhood and parenting are key in many family law texts. Family life for older members has, then, been largely neglected; addressing this neglect, the current volume explores how the issues which might be important for younger people are not necessarily the same as those for older people. The significance of family, the nature of family life, and the understanding of self in terms of one's relationships, tend to change over the life course. For example, the state may play an increasing role in the lives of older people - as access to services, involvement in work and the community, the ability to live independently, and to form or maintain caring relationships, are all impacted by law and policy. This collection therefore challenges the standard models of family life and family law that have been developed within a child/parent-centred paradigm, and which may require rethinking in the turn to family life in old age. Interdisciplinary in its scope and orientation, this book will appeal not just to academic family lawyers and students interested in issues around family law, ageing, gender, and care; but also to sociologists and ethicists working in these areas.

Bernhard Leipold, "Intentional Self-Development and Positive Ageing: How Individuals Select and Pursue Life Goals"
English | ISBN: 0815365373 | 2019 | 182 pages | PDF | 6 MB
Are we in control of our own development in adulthood, or are we shaped by circumstances beyond our control? By adopting the concept of intentional self-development (ISD), this text outlines an action-theoretical approach to human development that emphasizes both an individual's ability to shape their own development throughout the lifespan, and the extent to which this potential is limited.