Explores those frequently overlooked behavioural, emotional, and lifestyle issues that are vital to a fulfilling retirement. The author includes questionnaires and a checklist to help readers gauge their attitudes and progress toward retirement; important diet and exercise information; and a guide to some uncommon travel ideas.
Explores those frequently overlooked behavioural, emotional, and lifestyle issues that are vital to a fulfilling retirement. The author includes questionnaires and a checklist to help readers gauge their attitudes and progress toward retirement; important diet and exercise information; and a guide to some uncommon travel ideas.
Deals with the aged and the process of aging and links this knowledge to interventions for improving the quality of life. Featuring expert gerontologists, this volume highlights the development of preventive, therapeutic, and rehabilitative interventions designed to assist older people maintain their independence and quality of life.
Introducing a basis for dialogue across humanistic, scientific, and professional disciplines, this work addresses topics as industrial employment, retirement, life styles of older women, and biological research. It includes philosophical reflections on the ""third age"", perspectives on institutional adaptations, and an aging society.
Shows how social values impact elders in the US and how older persons, and those who advocate on their behalf, may respond to the attitudes and actions of others. This book offers a look at the challenges of ageing. It includes chapters on stereotypes, human rights, ageism, the ethics of survival, elder abuse, fear of ageing, dementia and more.
This volume of the ARGG is devoted to the behavioral sciences, with particular attention given to topics in experimental and applied psychology. With the rapid rate of research in this field of aging, the contributors address a number of important basic and applied topics that are underrepresented in other literature..
Offers an account of the author's struggle to cope with her father when, in his last years, he changed from someone lively, charming, and independent to someone she and her family could not recognise. This book presents a woman's tale, intended for those who have taken on the care of an ageing parent or relative.
Suggesting what to look for when choosing a facility for your parent and the nursing home, this book shows how to monitor the care offered. For residents and caregivers alike, it includes appendixes that feature facts about retirement facilities and tips on how to evaluate a residential care facility.
