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Product Description: Across the globe, populations are getting older. Hayashi surveys the development of residential care in Britain and Japan from the 1920s onwards, using regional case studies, and taking into account the influence of traditions and cultural norms.

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9781848934177 | Pickering & Chatto Ltd, June 30, 2013, cover price $150.00 | About this edition: Across the globe, populations are getting older.

Paperback:

9781138664784 | Routledge, January 20, 2016, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: Across the globe, populations are getting older.

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9780071833455 | 7 edition (McGraw-Hill, December 9, 2016), cover price $289.00

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Product Description: This Second Edition of the Handbook addresses the evolving interdisciplinary health care context and the broader social work practice environment, as well as advances in the knowledge base which guides social work service delivery in health and aging...read more
By Barbara Berkman (editor)

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9780199336951 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 12, 2015), cover price $175.00 | About this edition: This Second Edition of the Handbook addresses the evolving interdisciplinary health care context and the broader social work practice environment, as well as advances in the knowledge base which guides social work service delivery in health and aging.

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Product Description: Research documents that rural elders are poorer, live in less adequate housing, and have far fewer health and service options available to them than their urban counterparts, yet there is a critical lack of current and detailed information on the problems facing rural elders and on the professional practices that serve this population...read more

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9780826198099 | 1 edition (Springer Pub Co, September 8, 2014), cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Research documents that rural elders are poorer, live in less adequate housing, and have far fewer health and service options available to them than their urban counterparts, yet there is a critical lack of current and detailed information on the problems facing rural elders and on the professional practices that serve this population.

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By G. Allen Power, M. D. and Taylor (foreword by)

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9781938870132 | 1 edition (Health Professions Pr, June 19, 2014), cover price $38.99

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Product Description: As one who is involved in the culture change movement and is trying to review the huge volume of available resources, I find it refreshing to have a book that draws it all together....I highly recommend this book to administrators who are overwhelmed at the thought of implementing change in their environment...read more
By Elaine T. Jurkowski, Ph. D. and Thomas (foreword by)

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9780826109088 | Springer Pub Co, May 28, 2013, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: As one who is involved in the culture change movement and is trying to review the huge volume of available resources, I find it refreshing to have a book that draws it all together.

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Book by Wise, Arthur E.
By Alice McDonnell (editor)

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9781449604608 | 1 edition (Jones & Bartlett Pub, July 26, 2012), cover price $107.95
9780226903002, titled "Rich Schools Poor Schools: The Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity" | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1968, cover price $2.25 | also contains Rich Schools, Poor Schools: The Promise of Equal Educational Opportunity | About this edition: Book by Wise, Arthur E.

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Product Description: "New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care" provides the latest practice-oriented qualitative research and innovative conceptual discussions of how health and health care systems are currently dealing with complex transformations and varied reforms...read more
By Miquel Domenech (editor)

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9780754678649 | Ashgate Pub Co, December 16, 2010, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: "New Technologies and Emerging Spaces of Care" provides the latest practice-oriented qualitative research and innovative conceptual discussions of how health and health care systems are currently dealing with complex transformations and varied reforms.

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Product Description: A systematic and research-based introduction to social work practice with older peopleThe reality of our aging population means all social workers need to be confident in working with older people. Social workers are engaged in ongoing practice with older people in a variety of contexts, from hospitals, aged care assessment teams, and mental health services to employment services, housing services, and rehabilitation services...read more

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9781742370606 | Allen & Unwin, November 1, 2010, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: A systematic and research-based introduction to social work practice with older peopleThe reality of our aging population means all social workers need to be confident in working with older people.

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Product Description: Already established in its first edition as a key text in elderly care, this comprehensively revised second edition of Essential Facts in Geriatric Medicine is a vital reference for health professionals involved in providing comprehensive care to the older population...read more

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9781846194672 | 2 edition (CRC Pr I Llc, August 15, 2010), cover price $42.95 | About this edition: Already established in its first edition as a key text in elderly care, this comprehensively revised second edition of Essential Facts in Geriatric Medicine is a vital reference for health professionals involved in providing comprehensive care to the older population.
9781857758672 | Radcliffe Pub, February 1, 2005, cover price $43.95

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Product Description: The restraint of older people is a pressing issue for health and social care practice. This book provides health and social care professionals with an authoritative reading resource on the ethics and use of restraint.The book provides an overview of the different forms of restraint, the conditions under which they are used, and their implications for the health and wellbeing of older people...read more
By Rhidian Hughes (editor)

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9781843109587 | Jessica Kingsley Pub, January 15, 2010, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: The restraint of older people is a pressing issue for health and social care practice.

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Product Description: Aging well and continuing to be active are often regarded as the goals in life, from individual, family, community, and population perspectives. This implies good health and physical fitness, good cognitive and positive emotional-motivational functioning, and social participation and engagement...read more

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9780889373600 | Hogrefe & Huber Pub, July 30, 2008, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Aging well and continuing to be active are often regarded as the goals in life, from individual, family, community, and population perspectives.

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By Yves Carrière (editor), Eileen M. Crimmins (editor), Jean-Marie Robine (editor) and Yi Zeng (editor)

Hardcover:

9781402040245 | Springer Verlag, February 15, 2006, cover price $199.00

Paperback:

9781402047916 | Springer Verlag, March 1, 2006, cover price $69.95

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Product Description: Who pays for long-term care? Discover the unique approaches of seven countries around the Pacific Rim!Long-Term Care in the Twenty-First Century discusses policies and programs for long-term care in seven countries around the Asia-Pacific Rim: the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780789019325 | Routledge, July 1, 2002, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Who pays for long-term care?

Paperback:

9780789019332 | Routledge, July 1, 2002, cover price $62.95 | About this edition: Who pays for long-term care?

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By Freddy Homburger (editor)

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9780826184108 | Springer Pub Co, May 1, 1994, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: Book by

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Product Description: According to a 1990 report issued by the Census Bureau, 31 million people in the United States are over the age of sixty-five. Inevitably the overall welfare of this population will gradually become vulnerable to a variety of disabilities that may require exhaustive and expensive diagnostic or therapeutic attention...read more
By Morris F. Collen (editor) and Florence Lieberman (editor)

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9780306445026 | Insight Books, September 1, 1993, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: According to a 1990 report issued by the Census Bureau, 31 million people in the United States are over the age of sixty-five.

Product Description: Like all the books in the "Living with..." series the authors are clinicians with a sceptical approach to drug-based treatment of chronic ailments. This book aims to provide a summary of the non-pharmaceutical treatment of elderly, confused people...read more

Hardcover:

9780719025150 | Manchester Univ Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Like all the books in the "Living with.

Paperback:

9780719025167 | Reprint edition (Manchester Univ Pr, November 1, 1992), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Like all the books in the "Living with.

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Product Description: This thoughtful and compassionate account addresses some of the difficult ethical and medical issues raised in the provision of health care for the dependent elderly patient. Care of the dependent elderly is subject to conflicting priorities arising from the demands of patients, their relatives, the fair allocation of medical and financial resources, and the medical ethos to prolong life...read more
By Luke Gormally (editor)

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9780521415316 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: This thoughtful and compassionate account addresses some of the difficult ethical and medical issues raised in the provision of health care for the dependent elderly patient.

Paperback:

9780521061254 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 24, 2008), cover price $64.99 | About this edition: This thoughtful and compassionate account addresses some of the difficult ethical and medical issues raised in the provision of health care for the dependent elderly patient.

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Product Description: One of the most potent images of later life is the general association between age and ill health. The stereotype of later life is that it is characterized by universal and inevitable ill health. The ageing of the population is, therefore, regarded as problematic because of the high consumption of health and social care by older people...read more

Hardcover:

9780335092840 | Open Univ Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: One of the most potent images of later life is the general association between age and ill health.

Paperback:

9780335092833 | Open Univ Pr, July 1, 1991, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: One of the most potent images of later life is the general association between age and ill health.

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By Jane Anne Hannigan (editor)

Hardcover:

9780810823747 | Scarecrow Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $66.00

By Brummel-Smith (editor), Bryan Kemp (editor) and Joseph W. Ramsdell (editor)

Hardcover:

9780890793961 | Pro Ed, June 1, 1990, cover price $69.00
9780316488204 | Pro Ed, January 1, 1990, cover price $75.94

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Product Description: Here is an extremely useful book--one which will help social workers understand the needs of special populations of older people, the nature of practices in the community, and some of the policy and practice issues which they confront in their work.
By George S. Getzel (editor)

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9780866562560 | Routledge, June 1, 1985, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Here is an extremely useful book--one which will help social workers understand the needs of special populations of older people, the nature of practices in the community, and some of the policy and practice issues which they confront in their work.

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