Age groups: the elderly (86)

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This contributed volume is based on the 'European Core Competences Framework for health and social care professionals working with older people' (ECCF), developed and verified in a unique international cooperation between 26 universities and universi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book provides an in-depth analysis of the older-tourist market, and of the challenges and opportunities created by population ageing from a tourism marketing perspective, by combining a demand-side and a supply-side approach to older tourists. T...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This Brief is based on a research study of aging adults' perceptions and fear of crime in their community of Ferguson, Missouri. The study, which was conducted by coincidence just prior to the death of Michael Brown, presents unique insights into the...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:This book promotes a critical reflection about the research conducted so far in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) with older people, whose predominant perspective focuses on decline, health, and help. It introduces a new (or different) perspective, wh...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Das Buch skizziert die in Zukunft immer wichtiger werdenden Möglichkeiten, Probleme und Handlungsfelder der Pflege. Schwerpunkt ist dabei eine Stärkung der sozialräumlichen Orientierung, die Analyse der Bemühungen um wohnortnahe Hilfen und des Ausbau...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Although most advanced industrialized countries are facing population aging and other social changes, public long-term care programs for the aged are remarkably diverse across them. This book accounts for the variations in elderly care policy by comb...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book provides a comprehensive, theory-based analysis of current issues in population economics. It addresses the most important problems caused by demographic changes using the popular overlapping generations growth model by Samuelson and Diamon...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book brings together a diversity of perspectives on the psychology of ageing. Exploring theoretical, conceptual, empirical and practical viewpoints on the topic, the authors offer insight into a range of contemporary issues. Dedicated chapters d...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:The book examines the extent to which the sustained population growth of Australia’s heartland regional centres has come at the expense of demographic decline in their own hinterlands, and, ultimately, of their entire regions. It presents a longitud...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:This collection critically examines twenty-first century representations of ageing, focusing on various media images and discourses as well as individuals' own experiences and self-presentations of ageing, drawing on innovative new empirical data.

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:This collection on researching later life and ageing critically reflects upon the qualitative methods used in gaining knowledge of under-researched groups of older people and sets out future research agendas.

publisher: Springer
year: 2010
description:This book, now in paperback, revisits Peter Townsend's classic study of residential care for older people in Britain conducted in the late 1950s. It provides not only a fascinating account of residential care for older people over the last 50 years b...