Health and care in ageing societies

In the context of global ageing societies, there are few challenges to the underlying assumption that policies should promote functional health and independence in older people and contain the costs of care. This important book provides such a challenge.

List of contents

Introduction; Ageing and health: Current issues and trends; Conceptualising ageing, health and the need for care; Global trends in policy-making for health and care; Healthy ageing; Medicine, health care and ageing; Care for health in later life; Conclusion.

About the author

Liz Lloyd is a Senior Lecturer in Social Gerontology at the University of Bristol, School for Policy Studies. Her research is on ageing and the life course with a particular focus on health and the ethics of care. She has researched and published on the end-of-life in old age and she has been instrumental in developing the ethics of care perspective within gerontology.

Summary

In the context of global ageing societies, there are few challenges to the underlying assumption that policies should promote functional health and independence in older people and contain the costs of care. This important book provides such a challenge.

Product details

• Authors: Liz Lloyd, Liz (School for Policy Studies Lloyd
• Publisher: Policy Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.05.2012
• EAN: 9781861349187
• ISBN: 978-1-86134-918-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 244 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 315 g
• Series: Ageing and the Lifecourse Series; Ageing and the Lifecourse; Ageing and the Lifecourse Series; Ageing and the Lifecourse
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories