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The SAGE handbook of social gerontology / edited by Chris Phillipson, Dale Dannefer.

Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Sage, 2010.Description: 680 p. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9781412934640 (Cloth)
  • 1412934648 (Cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.26 DAN
Contents:
PART ONE: FUNDAMENTAL AND DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON AGEING The Study of the Life Course: Implications for Social Gerontology - Dale Dannefer and Richard A. Settersten, Jr. Past as Prologue: Toward a Global History of Ageing - W. Andrew Achenbaum The Economics of Ageing - James H. Schulz Social Anthropology and Ageing - Christine L. Fry The Demography of Ageing - Christina Victor Epidemiology of Ageing - Dawn Alley and Eileen Crimmins Disability and Ageing: The Social Construction of Causality - Jessica Kelley-Moore Environmental Perspectives on Ageing - Hans-Werner Wahl and Frank Oswald PART TWO: AGEING AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE Age and Inequality in Global Context - Angela M. O'Rand, Katelin Isaacs, and Leslie Roth Gender and Ageing in the Context of Globalization - Toni Calasanti Ageing and Health among Hispanics/Latinos in the Americas - Kyriakos Markides, Jennifer Salinas, and Rebecca Wong Religion and Age - Peter G. Coleman Intergenerational Relationships of International Migrants in Developed Nations: The United States and France - Merril Silverstein and Claudine Attias-Donfut Family and Age in a Global Perspective - Ariela Lowenstein and Ruth Katz Intergenerational Relations: Asian Perspectives - Leng Leng Thang Societal Dynamics in Personal Networks - Theo van Tilburg and Fleur Thomese Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Ageing: Shattering Myths, Capturing Lives - Dana Rosenfeld Friendship and Ageing - Graham Allan PART THREE: AGEING AND INDIVIDUAL CHANGE Age, Self and Identity in the Global Century - Jon Hendricks Social Structure, Cognition and Ageing - Duane F. Alwin Stress and Agentic Ageing: A Targeted Adaptation Model Focused on Cancer - Eva Kahana and Boaz Kahana Agency and Social Structure in Ageing and Life Course Research - Victor W. Marshall and Philippa J. Clarke Age, Experience and the Beginning of Wisdom - Monika Ardelt Loneliness and Ageing: Comparative Perspectives - Marja Jylha and Marja Saarenheimo Biosocial Interactions in the Construction of Late-life Health Status - Kathryn Z. Douthit and Andre Marquis Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Social and Cultural Context - Danny George and Peter Whitehouse Socio-cultural Perspectives on Ageing Bodies - Stephen Katz Time and Ageing: Enduring and Emerging Issues - Jan Baars PART FOUR: AGEING, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT Ageing and International Development - Peter Lloyd-Sherlock Migration and Age - Tony Warnes Global Ageing: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa - Isabella Aboderin Population Ageing and Old-age Insurance in China - Zeng Yi and Linda K. George Ageing in a Global Context: the Asia-Pacific Region - David R Phillips, Alfred C.M. Chan, and Sheung-Tak Cheng The Significance of Grandparents to Grandchildren: An International Perspective - Peter Uhlenberg and Michelle Cheuk A Social View on Healthy Ageing: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives and Australian Evidence - H. Kendig and C. Browning Social Dimensions of Anti-ageing Science and Medicine - Robert H. Binstock and Jennifer R. Fishman The New Ageing Enterprise - Harry R. Moody PART FIVE: AGEING AND SOCIAL POLICY Social Policies for Ageing Societies: Perspectives from Europe - Thomas Scharf Globalization, Social Policy and Ageing: A North American Perspective - Carroll L. Estes and Steven P. Wallace Social Policies for Ageing Societies: Australasian Perspectives - Michael Fine and Sally Keeling Cross-National Trends in Work and Retirement - Philip Taylor Continuous and Long-term Care: European Perspectives - Caroline Glendinning Long-term Care in China and Japan - Yun Zhou and Yuzhi Liu Ageing and Quality of Life in Europe - Alan Walker Later Life and Imprisonment - Azrini Wahidin and Ronald H. Aday Ageing and Urban Society: Growing Old in the 'Century of the City' - Chris Phillipson Technology and Older People - Claudine McCreadie End-of-Life Issues - Liz Lloyd Ethics and Old Age: The Second Generation - Martha Holstein The Politics of Ageing - Susan A. MacManus with the assistance of Andrea L. Polk and David J. Bonanza
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Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 305.26 DAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00213531
Long Loan TUS: Midlands, Main Library Athlone Nursing Collection 305.26 DAN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00213530

PART ONE: FUNDAMENTAL AND DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON AGEING
The Study of the Life Course: Implications for Social Gerontology - Dale Dannefer and Richard A. Settersten, Jr.
Past as Prologue: Toward a Global History of Ageing - W. Andrew Achenbaum
The Economics of Ageing - James H. Schulz
Social Anthropology and Ageing - Christine L. Fry
The Demography of Ageing - Christina Victor
Epidemiology of Ageing - Dawn Alley and Eileen Crimmins
Disability and Ageing: The Social Construction of Causality - Jessica Kelley-Moore
Environmental Perspectives on Ageing - Hans-Werner Wahl and Frank Oswald
PART TWO: AGEING AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
Age and Inequality in Global Context - Angela M. O'Rand, Katelin Isaacs, and Leslie Roth
Gender and Ageing in the Context of Globalization - Toni Calasanti
Ageing and Health among Hispanics/Latinos in the Americas - Kyriakos Markides, Jennifer Salinas, and Rebecca Wong
Religion and Age - Peter G. Coleman
Intergenerational Relationships of International Migrants in Developed Nations: The United States and France - Merril Silverstein and Claudine Attias-Donfut
Family and Age in a Global Perspective - Ariela Lowenstein and Ruth Katz
Intergenerational Relations: Asian Perspectives - Leng Leng Thang
Societal Dynamics in Personal Networks - Theo van Tilburg and Fleur Thomese
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Ageing: Shattering Myths, Capturing Lives - Dana Rosenfeld
Friendship and Ageing - Graham Allan
PART THREE: AGEING AND INDIVIDUAL CHANGE
Age, Self and Identity in the Global Century - Jon Hendricks
Social Structure, Cognition and Ageing - Duane F. Alwin
Stress and Agentic Ageing: A Targeted Adaptation Model Focused on Cancer - Eva Kahana and Boaz Kahana
Agency and Social Structure in Ageing and Life Course Research - Victor W. Marshall and Philippa J. Clarke
Age, Experience and the Beginning of Wisdom - Monika Ardelt
Loneliness and Ageing: Comparative Perspectives - Marja Jylha and Marja Saarenheimo
Biosocial Interactions in the Construction of Late-life Health Status - Kathryn Z. Douthit and Andre Marquis
Dementia and Mild Cognitive Impairment in Social and Cultural Context - Danny George and Peter Whitehouse
Socio-cultural Perspectives on Ageing Bodies - Stephen Katz
Time and Ageing: Enduring and Emerging Issues - Jan Baars
PART FOUR: AGEING, CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT
Ageing and International Development - Peter Lloyd-Sherlock
Migration and Age - Tony Warnes
Global Ageing: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa - Isabella Aboderin
Population Ageing and Old-age Insurance in China - Zeng Yi and Linda K. George
Ageing in a Global Context: the Asia-Pacific Region - David R Phillips, Alfred C.M. Chan, and Sheung-Tak Cheng
The Significance of Grandparents to Grandchildren: An International Perspective - Peter Uhlenberg and Michelle Cheuk
A Social View on Healthy Ageing: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives and Australian Evidence - H. Kendig and C. Browning
Social Dimensions of Anti-ageing Science and Medicine - Robert H. Binstock and Jennifer R. Fishman
The New Ageing Enterprise - Harry R. Moody
PART FIVE: AGEING AND SOCIAL POLICY
Social Policies for Ageing Societies: Perspectives from Europe - Thomas Scharf
Globalization, Social Policy and Ageing: A North American Perspective - Carroll L. Estes and Steven P. Wallace
Social Policies for Ageing Societies: Australasian Perspectives - Michael Fine and Sally Keeling
Cross-National Trends in Work and Retirement - Philip Taylor
Continuous and Long-term Care: European Perspectives - Caroline Glendinning
Long-term Care in China and Japan - Yun Zhou and Yuzhi Liu
Ageing and Quality of Life in Europe - Alan Walker
Later Life and Imprisonment - Azrini Wahidin and Ronald H. Aday
Ageing and Urban Society: Growing Old in the 'Century of the City' - Chris Phillipson
Technology and Older People - Claudine McCreadie
End-of-Life Issues - Liz Lloyd
Ethics and Old Age: The Second Generation - Martha Holstein
The Politics of Ageing - Susan A. MacManus with the assistance of Andrea L. Polk and David J. Bonanza

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