Product Description: This book examines how to strengthen the family system while improving the psychosocial well-being of each family member. It describes diverse issues faced by ageing families, the effects these issues have on individual family members and the entire family unit, and methods of strengthening family functioning...read more

Product Description: Therapeutic practices of growing older. Provides support and insight on religious beliefs, nursing homes and living life.

Product Description: Here three gerontological professionals have combined their diverse backgrounds in a timely and urgently needed study of how religious institutions interact with their communities to provide care for the elderly. In an easily accessible and well-written text, actual and potential services are described, and ways of enhancing religious/agency collaboration are suggested...read more

Evaluates psychological factors that promote survival among the aged, reassessing the impact of stress and the ability to cope with transition