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Will you be ready when it's time...?
Whether whittling down to the essentials for a parent moving into a room or two or downsizing for ourselves, ignoring the spirit and basing decisions on health and safety alone could have devastating results.
In this hope filled book you will learn how to:
* Identify needs and desires to create a quality new life
* Cope with the Depression Era mind-set
* Create emotionally sustaining environments to nurture the...
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Este libro tiene como propósito brindar un panorama general sobre la vejez y el envejecimiento. Envejecer es un proceso inevitable por el que atravesamos la mayoría de los seres vivos. Tener conocimiento sobre esta etapa permitirá tomar decisiones en el presente que repercutirán en cómo se afronte la propia vejez y la del otro. El lector encontrará en estas páginas algunos conceptos básicos de gerontología; los cambios morfofisiológicos...
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As the field of aging and gerontology grows worldwide, this exciting guide introduces students to key issues and concepts. It covers topics related to the phenomena of advancing aging, including how older age has been defined historically, cultural myths related to advanced age, health and function in later life, how older age is financed throughout the world, and other key questions. Taking a multiple-perspective approach (including humanities, social...
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In the summer of 1996, Ruth Ray, a gerontologist in her forties, befriended an eighty-two-year-old man suffering from Parkinson's. The two remained close until the end of his life, sharing stories and memories while building a deep relationship. Part memoir, part biography, Endnotes explores how people construct meaning through their interactions with others. With grace and wit, Ray situates her friend's past experiences and present relationships...
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Schluckstörungen bei geriatrischen Patienten stellen Pflegekräfte, Therapeuten und Angehörige häufig vor ein schwieriges Problem. Aufgrund der weitreichenden Folgen einer Mangelernährung oder Aspirationspneumonie (Lungenentzündung durch Verschlucken von Speisen oder Flüssigkeit) ist eine umfassende interdisziplinäre Betreuung für den Betroffenen lebenswichtig.
Dieses Buch bietet Hilfestellung und zeigt auf, wie in kurzer Zeit eine Schluckstörung...
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This powerful book analyses the vital dimensions of money, health, place, quality of life and identity, and demonstrates the gaps of treatment and outcomes between older and younger people, and between different groups of older people. Written by leading experts in the field, it provides strong evidence of the scale of current disadvantage in the UK and suggests actions that could begin to change the picture of unequal ageing. 'Unequal ageing' is...
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Vieillir en ville est loin d'être simple. La précarité des personnes vieillissantes, souvent dépendantes de revenus fixes ou mal indexés, s'accroît. La crise du logement et la hausse du coût de la vie les frappent durement, sans parler du manque d'accessibilité des soins à domicile, rares et souvent trop coûteux. Les politiques publiques font la promotion de leur maintien dans leur milieu de vie et dans la communauté, mais dans les faits,...
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The oldest Baby Boomers have turned 60 so everybody's starting to talk about the "aging of the population."
But most of the talk is about numbers: what percentage of the population will be how old in what year, what it will mean for welfare rates or health-care costs, etc. But what's missing is the qualitative story. It's not there are more "older people" out there. It's that they are not the same as the older people of any previous generation.
This...
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Le vieillissement de la population est l'une des mutations majeures du siècle dernier, dont les conséquences sont sans précédent dans l'histoire de l'humanité. Allant au-delà des constats sur le vieillissement démographique, les auteurs du présent ouvrage dépassent les rhétoriques statistique ou comptable et examinent le sujet à partir de la question des droits, de l'intervention publique et de l'action collective.
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As we age, society's negative assumptions mean we become a burden, a problem and the excluded 'other'. With a convincing call to embrace all that is positive about ageing comes this timely book from the authors of Retiring with Attitude. Debunking the myth of the ageing time bomb it presents a new, yet realistic, way for society to engage with older people from a myriad of perspectives, including consumerism, media, work, housing, community and 'beauty'....
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El cuidado comunitario es una buena defensa que tienen las mujeres mayores para resistir los embates de lo que ha significado una vida dedicada al cuidado de los demás: de sus hijos e hijas, de su marido, de sus nietos y nietas, de sus familiares. Esta atención hacia otras personas estructura la vida de las mujeres, condiciona sus tiempos, sus actividades, su participación en la sociedad. Los clubes proporcionan un espacio y un tiempo que las mujeres...
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¿Qué implica envejecer en los distintos ámbitos de la vida? Este libro reúne perspectivas del vivir-envejecer como fenómeno complejo que integra múltiples aspectos en permanente interrelación. Desde distintas disciplinas: psicología, sociología, demografía, economía, desarrollo humano y estudios de familia, filosofía, educación, trabajo social, enfermería, derecho, biología y periodismo, ofrece análisis y reflexiones que invitan al...
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What's it like to grow older? More than 80 American women from across the nation offer thoughtful insights on many aspects of advancing in years-the ups as well as some downs, joys along with sorrows, happy memories from the past plus contentment with much of the present. Life is worth living, they agree, even as relationships, health, and responsibilities may change. Lessons learned through a lifetime can enrich one's later years; talents and wisdom...
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In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of The Interpretation of Cultures deepens our understanding of human societies through the intimacies of "local knowledge." A companion volume to The Interpretation of Cultures, this book continues Geertz's exploration of the meaning of culture and the importance of shared cultural symbolism. With a new...
16) Grandmothers and Grandmothering: Creative and Critical Contemplations in Honour of our Women Elders
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Today, more and more grandmothers around the world are taking on varied responsibilities and many roles, sometimes concurrently. Consequently, grandmothers continue to play, as in the past, an influential role not only in the lives of their grandchildren, but also in our communities and in society more broadly. Grandmothers and Grandmothering: Creative and Critical Contemplations in Honour of our Women Elders, as the title suggests, seeks to pay homage...
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As life unfolds, things tend to accumulate. When older adults undergo health, residential, and marital changes, they will face a reckoning with their lifelong store of possessions-special, ordinary, and forgotten. Such a predicament now confronts tens of millions of Americans as the Baby Boom cohort passes into retirement and beyond. Despite what a thriving industry of clutter manuals tells us, for most older adults, downsizing is no simple task....
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Handlicher Ratgeber mit vielen Praxistipps zum richtigen Umgang mit Menschen mit Demenz für Pflege- und Betreuungskräfte in der Altenpflege sowie für pflegende Angehörige zu Hause +++ Pflege- und Betreuungskräfte wie auch pflegende Angehörige sind oft im Stress und müssen sich vielen Herausforderungen stellen. Dieser kleine Praxishelfer für die Altenpflege gibt Ihnen kompetenten Rat zum Umgang mit Menschen mit Demenz. Dabei beschränkt er...
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Combining expert knowledge and first-hand experience, a noted elder care researcher confronts the long-distance care of her own mother.
Winner of a Gold Medal, 2017 Living Now Book Award in the Caregiving category
Shortlisted for the 2016 Sarton Women's Book Awards in the Memoir category presented by the Story Circle Network
For millions of Americans caregiving is the "new normal." For Laura Katz Olson, a respected researcher of long-term care...
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Este libro busca ser un aporte al estudio del envejecimiento como proceso que abarca la vida entera y en el que se conjugan múltiples y disímiles influencias. Desde un enfoque contextual dialéctico, centrado en las ciencias sociales, sus 26 categorías y 285 conceptos invitan al debate, a la deconstrucción y construcción de nuevos conocimientos orientadores de prácticas y políticas para lograr sociedades inclusivas: para todas las edades.
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