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Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure: Connecting critical and humanistic gerontology

Product Description: Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure advances the critical discourse on gerontology, offering new understandings of key social and ethical dilemmas facing aging societies. Connecting approaches that have been relatively isolated from one another, it integrates two major streams of thought within critical gerontology: analyses of structural issues in the context of political economy and humanist perspectives on issues of existential meaning, providing indispensable reading for scholars, students, policy makers, and practitioners in gerontology and humanism studies...read more

By Jan Baars (editor), Joseph Dohmen (editor), Amanda Grenier (editor) and Chris Phillipson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781447300908 | Policy Pr, July 15, 2013, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: Ageing, Meaning and Social StructureÂ advances the critical discourse on gerontology, offering new understandings of key social and ethical dilemmas facing aging societies.

Paperback:

9781447300892 | Policy Pr, October 15, 2014, cover price $46.95 | also contains Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure: Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology | About this edition: Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure advances the critical discourse on gerontology, offering new understandings of key social and ethical dilemmas facing aging societies.

Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure: Connecting Critical and Humanistic Gerontology

By Chris Phillipson (editor)

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9781447300892 | Policy Pr, October 15, 2014, cover price $46.95 | also contains Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure: Connecting critical and humanistic gerontology | About this edition: Ageing, Meaning and Social Structure advances the critical discourse on gerontology, offering new understandings of key social and ethical dilemmas facing aging societies.

Ageing

Product Description: Ageing populations represent a key global challenge for the twenty-first century. Few areas of life will remain untouched by the accompanying changes to cultural, economic and social life. This book interrogates various understandings of ageing, and provides a critical assessment of attitudes and responses to the development of ageing societies, placing these in the context of a variety of historical and sociological debates...read more

By Chris Phillipson

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Hardcover:

9780745630847 | Polity Pr, April 22, 2013, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Ageing populations represent a key global challenge for the twenty-first century.

Paperback:

9780745630854 | Polity Pr, April 22, 2013, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Ageing populations represent a key global challenge for the twenty-first century.

Work, Health and Wellbeing: The Challenges of Managing Health at Work

The relationship between health and work is widely recognized as complex and multifaceted. In the context of an aging population, our ability to enable individuals with health issues to continue working is becoming more critical. Addressing these current policy concerns, Work, Health and Wellbeing brings together new, original research from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to investigate how we can define and act on a biopsychosocial model of ill health to improve work participation in middle and later life.

By Chris Phillipson (editor), Sarah Vickerstaff (editor) and Ross Wilkie (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781847428080 | Policy Pr, December 14, 2011, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: The relationship between health and work is widely recognized as complex and multifaceted.

Paperback:

9781447301110 | 1 edition (Policy Pr, February 15, 2013), cover price $46.95

The Sage Handbook of Social Gerontology

Product Description: The subject matter of this Handbook deals with one of the most challenging issues for societies in the 21st Century, namely, the social, economic and cultural changes associated with individual ageing and the rapidly growing reality of the ageing of human populations...read more

By Chris Phillipson (editor)

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9781446270479 | Sage Pubns Ltd, September 14, 2010, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: The subject matter of this Handbook deals with one of the most challenging issues for societies in the 21st Century, namely, the social, economic and cultural changes associated with individual ageing and the rapidly growing reality of the ageing of human populations.

The Peter Townsend Reader

Product Description: Peter Townsend, who sadly passed away in June 2009, had a long career researching an exceptional range of topics within the social sciences and campaigning against social inequalities.This reader brings together for the first time a collection of his most distinctive work, allowing readers to review changes and continuities over the past six decades, and reflect on social issues that have returned to the fore today...read more

By Chris Phillipson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9781847424051 | Policy Pr, January 20, 2010, cover price $99.00

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9781847424044 | Policy Pr, January 20, 2010, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: Peter Townsend, who sadly passed away in June 2009, had a long career researching an exceptional range of topics within the social sciences and campaigning against social inequalities.

AGEING IN THE CITY: Everyday Life in Poor Neighbourhoods

Product Description: This is the first book of its kind to address the experiences of older people living in some of Britain’s most disadvantaged urban communities. Drawing upon a unique range of data sources, the book illustrates the challenges faced by older people in managing their daily lives in neighbourhoods that have witnessed considerable change in recent years...read more

By Chris Phillipson, Thomas Scharf and Allison E. Smith

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9780335215164 | Open Univ Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $147.95 | About this edition: This is the first book of its kind to address the experiences of older people living in some of Britain’s most disadvantaged urban communities.

Ageing in the City

Product Description: This book seeks to generate new insights into the experience of inequality in later life. Drawing on a unique empirical study of older people living in some of the UKâs most disadvantaged urban communities, the book explores a range of factors that influence the quality of life of older people living in areas of intense social deprivation...read more

By Chris Phillipson, Thomas Scharf and Allison E. Smith

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9780335215157 | Open Univ Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: This book seeks to generate new insights into the experience of inequality in later life.

Aging, Globalization And Inequality: The New Critical Gerontology

By Jan Baars (editor), Dale Dannefer (editor), Chris Phillipson (editor) and Alan Walker (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780895033581 | Baywood Pub Co, February 11, 2006, cover price $70.00

Social Networks and Social Exclusion: Sociological and Policy Perspectives

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By Graham Allan (editor), David H. J. Morgan (editor) and Chris Phillipson (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780754634294 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, March 1, 2004, cover price $149.95

Women in Transition: A Study of the Experiences of Bangladeshi Women Living in Tower Hamlets

Product Description: Drawing on interviews with over 100 first generation migrant women in the London borough of Tower Hamlets (home to the largest population of Bangladeshis in the UK) the report:Â·[vbTab]presents the first detailed study of this significant ethnic minority group;Â·[vbTab]identifies the pressures facing women as they juggle competing demands from younger and older generations;Â·[vbTab]addresses particular concerns such as the barriers to adopting English language within the community;Â·[vbTab]highlights the issues for those involved in service delivery;Â·[vbTab]demonstrates the range of issues to be considered when trying to access minority ethnic communities for the purpose of research...read more

By Nilufar Ahmed, Joanna Latimer and Chris Phillipson

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9781861345103 | Policy Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Drawing on interviews with over 100 first generation migrant women in the London borough of Tower Hamlets (home to the largest population of Bangladeshis in the UK) the report:Â·[vbTab]presents the first detailed study of this significant ethnic minority group;Â·[vbTab]identifies the pressures facing women as they juggle competing demands from younger and older generations;Â·[vbTab]addresses particular concerns such as the barriers to adopting English language within the community;Â·[vbTab]highlights the issues for those involved in service delivery;Â·[vbTab]demonstrates the range of issues to be considered when trying to access minority ethnic communities for the purpose of research.

Transitions from Work to Retirement: Developing a New Social Contract

Product Description: This report provides a detailed overview of the various transitions affecting people in their 50s and beyond. It challenges calls for an upward revision of retirement ages, arguing that paid employment is neither a feasible nor an attractive option for an increasing proportion of women and men moving into their fifties and beyond...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Chris Phillipson

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9781861344571 | Policy Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This report provides a detailed overview of the various transitions affecting people in their 50s and beyond.

Family and Community Life of Older People: Social Networks and Social Support in Three Urban Areas

By Miriam Bernard, Jim Ogg, Judith Phillips and Chris Phillipson

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Hardcover:

9780415205306 | Routledge, December 1, 2000, cover price $170.00

Miscellaneous:

9780203459058 | Routledge, May 3, 2002, cover price $57.95

Family and Community Life of Older People

Product Description: Family life has changed rapidly over te past fifty years and the number of people living longer increases year on year Family and Community Life of Older People revisits three areas (Bethnal Green in London, Wolverhampton in the Midlands and Woodford in Essex) which were the subject of classic studies in the late 1940s and 1950s and explores changes to the family and community lives of older people...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Miriam Bernard, Jim Ogg, Judith Phillips and Chris Phillipson (editor)

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9780415205313 | Routledge, January 1, 2001, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: Family life has changed rapidly over te past fifty years and the number of people living longer increases year on year Family and Community Life of Older People revisits three areas (Bethnal Green in London, Wolverhampton in the Midlands and Woodford in Essex) which were the subject of classic studies in the late 1940s and 1950s and explores changes to the family and community lives of older people.

Teaching and Learning in Later Life: Theoretical Implications

Product Description: This collection of papers examines the development of education for older adults against the background of an ageing population and the challenge of lengthening life expectancy. It brings together contributions from the UK and Canada...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sandra A. Cusack, Robert Elmore, Frank Glendenning (editor), Chris Phillipson and Alexandra Withnall

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9781840148022 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, July 1, 2000, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This collection of papers examines the development of education for older adults against the background of an ageing population and the challenge of lengthening life expectancy.

Reconstructing Old Age: New Agendas for Social Theory

Product Description: In this timely and authoritative overview on social gerontology and social theory, Chris Phillipson outlines the changing contexts and experiences associated with later life as we move into a new century. The book critically reviews the different theoretical explanations which attempt to explain these changes...read more

By Chris Phillipson

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9780803979888 | Sage Pubns Ltd, December 12, 1998, cover price $163.00 | About this edition: In this timely and authoritative overview on social gerontology and social theory, Chris Phillipson outlines the changing contexts and experiences associated with later life as we move into a new century.

Reconstructing Old Age: New Agendas in Social Theory and Social Practice

By Chris Philliosn and Chris Phillipson

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9780803979895 | Sage Pubns Ltd, December 12, 1998, cover price $62.00 | About this edition: In this timely and authoritative overview on social gerontology and social theory, Chris Phillipson outlines the changing contexts and experiences associated with later life as we move into a new century.

Elder Abuse in Perspective

By Simon Biggs, Paul Kingston and Chris Phillipson

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Hardcover:

9780335191475 | Open Univ Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $104.95

Paperback:

9780335191468 | Open Univ Pr, November 1, 1995, cover price $38.95

Sociology of Old Age