Designed for professionals working with the elderly, this text provides comprehensive coverage of the ageing process and its effects on mental health. It sets out the nature and problems of old age, including the problems of older people in their families, and explores some of the common emotional problems and psychiatric disorders which can ...
Pulitzer-prize winning author Dr. Robert Butler coined the term ageism and made Alzheimers a familiar word. Now he brings his formidable knowledge and experience in aging issues to a recent and unprecedented achievement: the extension of human life expectancy by thirty years. As Butler shows, our society has not yet adapted to this change. The ...
The author questions the value of long life for its own sake, arguing that modern medicine has ironically created a group for whom survival is possible but satisfaction elusive. He proposed reforms to redefine and restructure the institutions responsible for the elderly in America.
Life can be rich and full at any age. You may be getting older, but love and sex are still a part of your life. Here, two leading gerontological experts have updated the classic guide on the subject to address the needs of our changing world in the new millennium. THE NEW LOVE AND SEX AFTER 60 examines how aging affects sexual desire and ...
Focuses on the healthy elderly in the community as well as primary health care, health promotion, and the role of the family. Current Canadian demographic data on the elderly along with relevant statistics are included.
Discusses misconceptions about the aging process, looks at medical problems, fitness, dating, remarriage, and emotional problems and includes advice on starting new social relationships.
It is increasingly important for physicians who treat older persons, and for researchers on aging, to understand how molecular biology informs clinical expressions of aging and age-related conditions such as osteoporosis, diabetes, osteoarthritis, frailty, cancer, and dementia. Dr. David Hamerman translates basic scientific concepts into precepts ...
Today, one in eight Americans - 32 million people - is aged 65 or older. That proportion will rise to one in five by 2020. The number of elderly Americans is growing faster than the US population at large, with those aged 85 or older representing the most rapidly increasing segment of all. Because most of the elderly are no longer in the workforce ...
Today, one in eight Americans - 32 million people - is aged 65 or older. That proportion will rise to one in five by 2020. The number of elderly Americans is growing faster than the US population at large, with those aged 85 or older representing the most rapidly increasing segment of all. Because most of the elderly are no longer in the workforce ...
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