Ageing, Health and Care

Informationen zum Autor CHRISTINA R. VICTOR is Professor of Gerontology and Public Health and Director for Health Ageing in the Brunel Institute for Ageing Studies at Brunel University, West London, and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health. Her main research interests are in the areas of ageing and later life, including health status, social networks and social relationships, loneliness and isolation, and the ageing of minority communities. Her most recent book, The social world of older people, co-authored with Sasha Scambler and John Bond, was published by Open University Press in 2008. Klappentext The ageing of the population has enormous policy implications for health care. This important new textbook, written by a leader in the field, covers key questions such as the fitness of older people in the future, the widening inequalities in the health of older people and how health in old age reflects habits and behaviour in earlier life. Zusammenfassung The ageing of the population has enormous policy implications for health care. This important new textbook, written by a leader in the field, covers key questions such as the fitness of older people in the future, the widening inequalities in the health of older people and how health in old age reflects habits and behaviour in earlier life.

Product details

• Authors: Victor, Christina Victor, Christina R. Victor, Christina R. (Brunel University) Victor
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2010
• EAN: 9781847420886
• ISBN: 978-1-84742-088-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Ageing and the Lifecourse; Ageing and the Lifecourse
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories