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Passages Of Retirement - Personal Histories Of Struggle And Success

de Richard Prentis

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 The author considers work patterns prior to retirement, the decision-making process itself, and the aftermath of the decision to retire. This passage of worker to retiree addresses concerns and questions that are important to many of those about to retire: how working conditions and other factors can affect the decision to retire;
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Centenarians - The New Generation

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 Successful survivors speak for themselves in this exhaustive study of the lives, attitudes, and lifestyles of more than 500 centenarians. Beard's insights regarding the personal characteristics and principles by which centenarians live contain some unexpected findings in the areas of social relationships and social environments.
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Innovative Aging Programs Abroad - Implications For The United States

de C. Nusberg

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Population Aging In The United States

de David F. Sly, J. Michael Wrigley e William J. Serow

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 A final chapter brings all the preceding material together by considering the policy implications of prospective population aging within the United States with reference to both the increased number and proportion of older persons within the American population and to the aging of the older population itself during the next century.
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Geriatric Medicine In The Usa And Great Britain

de David K. Carboni

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Who Cares For Them? - Workers In The Home Care Industry

de Penny H. Feldman

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 Increasing numbers of the old and disabled depend on paid workers to care for them in their own homes. This book documents the conditions in the home care industry and asks what can be done to improve job satisfaction, reduce staff turnover and ultimately build a more professional workforce.
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Residential Care For The Elderly - Critical Issues In Public Policy

de Sharon Baggett

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Biographical Dictionary Of American Sports - Basketball And Other Indoor Sports

de David L. Porter

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 In eleven appendices, the editor provides extensive cross-referencing and listings covering sports halls of fame, sports associations, organizations, and leagues, indoor sporting events, sites of Olympic games, indoor sports periodicals, and other topics.
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Hispanic Elderly In Transition - Theory, Research, Policy And Practice

de Steven Applewhite

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 An outstanding examination of the cross-cultural apsects in social work practice and service dealing with Hispanic elderly, in particular Puerto Ricans, Cubans, and Mexicans.
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Social Policies For The Elderly In The Third World

de Martin B. Tracy

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 This volume proposes a clearly structured method to study social programs for the elderly in economically developing nations.
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Philanthropy And Gerontology - The Role Of American Foundations

de Ann H.I. Sontz

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 Focusing on the philanthropic funding of social science research on aging, this study looks at the potential of the private sector and suggests strategies for addressing the research priorities posed by a rapidly aging population. Sontz begins by examining the contributions of modern philanthropy to the growth of social science.
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Latin American Society And Legal Culture - A Bibliography

de Frederic E. Snyder

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 This is the first comprehensive bibliography of the major readings in English, Spanish, and Portuguese relating to the legal systems of Latin America and to the political, economic, and social developments that helped to shape them.
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The Extreme Aged In America - A Portrait Of An Expanding Population

de Ira Rosenwaike

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North American Elders - United States And Canadian Perspectives

de Betty Havens e Eloise Rathborn- Mccuan

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 This collection of essays provides an analysis of Canadian/U.S. social policy toward aging. Subsequent chapters examine the Canadian and U.S. perspectives on social policy, long-term care, the chronic mentally ill, rural aging, aging veterans, native elders, and cross-national intergenerational families.
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Fifty Southern Writers Before 1900 - A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook

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 American LiteratureA companion volume to Fifty Southern Writers After 1900, this collection focuses on the work of writers whose careers ended before or about 1900, whose works are often anthologized, and whose writing figures prominently in the history of Southern letters.
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The Aged In Rural America

de John Krout

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Religion, Health, And Aging - A Review And Theoretical Integration

de Harold Koenig, Jo Ann Ploch Gonzales e Mona Smiley

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 This book presents a comprehensive and scientific review of the research during the past fifty years on the relationship between religion and health in later life. Next investigated are the impacts on health of private religious activity, community religious involvement, and personal religious experience.
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Power And Poverty - Old Age In The Pre-Industrial Past

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 This volume examines contemporary research on the history of old age, demonstrating many ways in which advanced age was associated with authority in the pre-industrial past, challenging existing literature's focus on the dependence and disability of older people in the period.
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Suicide Among The Elderly In Long-Term Care Facilities

de Aaron P. Lipman, Barbara Brant e Nancy Osgood

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 More than 1000 administrators of long-term care facilities in the United States were randomly selected and surveyed about their staff and facilities, and the incidence and type of suicidal behaviors which occurred among residents in 1984 and 1985.
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Shared Housing For The Elderly

de Dale J. Jaffe

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 The goals of this section are to provide a broad descriptive analysis of the history, growth, and current issues facing the shared housing movement, to consider both the urban and rural environments as contexts for shared housing programs, and to offer an overview of shared housing research.
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Elder Mistreatment - Deciding Who Is At Risk

de Tanya F. Johnson

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 A review of risk instruments used in adult protective services and non-adult protective services settings forms the basis of chapter five, and chapter six outlines a proposed risk assessment model, specially designed for elder-serving human service professionals.
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Perceptions Of Aging In Literature - A Cross-Cultural Study

de P Vn Dorotka Bagnell e Pat Spencer Soper

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Aiding And Aging - The Coming Crisis In Support For The Elderly By Kin And State

de John Mogey

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 In both societies, support for the elderly comes from formal institutional programs as well as informal family arrangements, and it seems equally true in both cases that the elderly get most of their support through kinship assistance.
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Senior Centers In America

de John Krout

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 A review of local and national studies to provide a complete analysis of senior centres. It stresses the need for increased research into various areas, and looks at a number of issues which relate to the ageing population and particularly to social services for the elderly.
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