| Description |
xi, 369 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Part One: Personal Accounts -- Look Me In the Eye - Barbara MacDonald -- Coming Out of the Age Closet - Maxine Myers -- The Ageing of Mary Berenson - Bill Bytheway -- Home From Home? - Evan Marsh -- Mrs Hatter - Janet Ford and Ruth Sinclair -- Mr and Mrs Cosgrove - Jeremy Seabrook -- Epilogue to - Agatha Christie -- An Autobiography -- Part Two: Images And Identity -- Old Age in Crime Fiction - Mike Hepworth -- A Cream Cracker Under the Settee - Alan Bennett -- Have the Men Had Enough? - Margaret Forster -- The Photographic Image - Kathleen Woodward -- Ageing with a Disability - Gerry Zarb -- Ageing and Cultural Stereotypes of Older Women - Jay Ginn and Sara Arber -- Ageing and Ethnicity - Ken Blakemore -- Part Three: Ill-Health And Well-Being -- The Health of Older Asians - Liam Donaldson and Marie Johnson -- Osteoporosis in Women - Jean Shapiro -- Depression in Later Life - Elaine Murphy -- Frames of Reference for an Understanding of Dementia - Tom Kitwood -- Love, Sex and Aging - Edward M Brecher -- Age Discrimination in Health Care - Melanie Henwood -- Part Four: Intervention And Therapy -- Does Group Living Work? - Julia Johnson -- A Holistic Approach in the Ward - Helen Passant -- Elderly People, Their Medicines and Their Doctors - Drugs and Therapeutics Bulletin -- Assessing Risk - Alison Norman -- Vulnerable to Abuse - Olive Stevenson -- Baffle Locks - Grainne Sheridan -- In Whose Best Interest? -- Freedom to Wander - Peter Blackburn -- Part Five: Power And Control -- Obstacles to the Development of User-Centred Services - Tim Booth -- Rest Assured - Leonie Kellaher and Sheila Peace -- New Moves in Quality Assurance for Residential Care -- A Powerhouse for Change - Phyllida Parsloe and Olive Stevenson -- Empowering Users -- Approaches to Advocacy - Chris Phillipson -- The Pensioners' Movement - Andrew Blaikie -- Federation, Consolidation, Fragmentation, 1938-48 -- On Being a Woman in the Pensioners' Movement - Zelda Curtis -- Part Six: Concepts And Values -- Ageism - Julia Johnson and Bill Bytheway -- Concept and Definition -- ̀Us' and ̀Them'? Feminist Research, Community Care and Disability - Jenny Morris -- Philosophical Perspectives on Quality of Life - Andrew Sixsmith -- Religion and Aging - David O Moberg -- Gerontological Approaches to Quality of Life - Beverley Hughes -- Measuring Quality of Life - Michael Bury and Anthea Holme -- Part Seven: Policy And Politics -- Ideology and the Private Sector of Welfare - Roy Parker -- Housing and Community Care - Robin Means -- Workers versus Pensioners - Paul Johnson, Christoph Conrad and David Thompson -- The New Prospects for Retirement - Michael Young and Tom Schuller -- Older People in Europe - Alan Walker and Jens Alber -- Social and Economic Policies -- Part Eight: Pasts -- Born 1898 - Mark Abrams -- A Brief Group Biography -- Oral History as a Social Movement - Joanna Bornat -- Reminiscence and Older People -- History of Migration to the United Kingdom - John Young and James George -- Glimpses of a Lost History - Paul Thompson -- Social Services for Elderly People - Robin Means -- From Beveridge to Thatcher -- The Historical Development of Geriatric Medicine as a Specialty - Helen Evers -- History of Old Age in Western Culture and Society - George Minois -- Part Nine: Futures -- The Politics of Age - Russell A Ward -- Ageing in Developing Countries - Alex Kalache -- Has it Got Anything to Do with Us? -- Paths for Future Population Ageing - Jill Grigsby -- Can We Survive the World Revolution? - Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider |
| Analysis |
Humans Ageing |
| Notes |
On t.p.: Open University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and indexes |
| Credits |
On t.p.: Open University |
| Subject |
Aging.
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Older people -- Great Britain.
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Aging -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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Aged.
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Social Conditions.
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Aging.
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| Genre/Form |
Collected Work.
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| Author |
Slater, Robert, 1945-
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Johnson, Julia, 1946-
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Open University.
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| LC no. |
93086213 |
| ISBN |
0803989660 paperback |
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0803989652 cased |
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