Health and Care in Ageing Societies - A New International Approach

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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, Liz/ Phillips Lloyd
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2012
• EAN: 9781861349194
• ISBN: 978-1-86134-919-4
• No. of pages: 169
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 241 mm x 13 mm
• 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