Key Concepts in Social Gerontology

Informationen zum Autor Judith Phillips is Professor of Gerontology at Swansea University and director of the Older People and Ageing Research and Development Network in Wales (OPAN Cymru). Judith is a qualified social worker and has worked in statutory residential and field settings, specialising in work with older adults. Following a geography degree at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, Judith went on to study at Stockholm University, Jesus College Oxford and UEA, Norwich, where she worked as a researcher and a lecturer before joining the Centre for Social Gerontology at the University of Keele in 1993. She returned to Wales in 2004 to set up the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ageing (now the Centre for Innovative Ageing) at Swansea University. She is also currently the Director of the Research Institute for Applied Social Sciences at Swansea University. Klappentext Concise, accessible introduction to this expanding and interdisciplinary field of study. Zusammenfassung Concise! accessible introduction to this expanding and interdisciplinary field of study. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Advocacy Age Integration Ageing Ageing in Place Ageism Ambivalence Assisted Living Bereavement Biographical Approaches Care Care Management Civic Engagement Cohort Convoy Theory Cultural Ideals Death and Dying Dementia Disability Elder Mistreatment/Abuse Environmental Gerontology Ethnicity Euthanasia Family Relations Filial Responsibility Frailty Gender Generations Gerontology Global Ageing Housing Independence Intergenerational Practice Life-Course Perspective Lifelong Learning Loneliness Long-Term Care Longevity Palliative Care Pensions Population Ageing Quality of Life Religion/Spirituality Retirement Social Exclusion Social Relations Social Support Social Theories of Ageing Successful Ageing Third and Fourth Ages Triple Jeopardy ...

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• Authors: Kristine J Ajrouch, Kristine J J Ajrouch, Kristine J. Ajrouch, Kristine J./ Phillips Ajrouch, Sarah Hillcoat-Nalletamby, Hillcoat-Nalletamby Sarah, Judith E Phillips, Judith E Ajrouch Phillips, Judith E E Phillips, Judith E. Phillips, Judith E. Hillcoat-Nalletamby Phillips
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2010
• EAN: 9781412922715
• ISBN: 978-1-4129-2271-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Sage Key Concepts Series; Key Concepts (Sage); Sage Key Concepts Series; Key Concepts (Sage)
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, Age groups: the elderly, Age groups: the elderly / old age