Product Description: Many older people, indeed the majority, have many years of relatively good health after the usual retirement age. Contrary to widely accepted stereotypes, evidence indicates that those who wish to use their skills and abilities for productive contributions may encounter significant barriers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Assesses the implications of an aging population on American society, addressing social, financial, political, medical, economic, educational, and personal factors (view table of contents)

Assesses the implications of an aging population on American society, addressing social, financial, political, medical, economic, educational, and personal factors

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Product Description: Book by Watson, Wilbur H.

Product Description: The ageing process involves many problems associated with decline whether it be in health, psychology or lifestyle or all three. This book brings together new research on each these aspects.

Product Description: Book by Bahr, Stephen J.

Product Description: Focusing on some of the major issues that have arisen in research of the rural elderly, contributors to this book review the literature, highlight the controversies and examine methodological and substantive issues in research. An introductory section looks at the demographic characteristics of the rural elderly...read more

Product Description: From politics to popular culture, baby boomers exert a profound impact on America. As they enter middle age and retirement, this generation, unprecedented in size, will confront a vast new realm of problems, choices, and decisions...read more

Presents a variety of opinions on how an aging population will affect America, including questions about health care, entitlement programs, and how society views the elderly.

Product Description: Fred C. Pampel describes how age combines with other components of inequality by comparing the influence of group membership on social inequality before and after the life course transition to old age. He looks at the differences in public policy and how age inequality -- more than the other sources of inequality -- relates closely to government policies and studies other societies in which both age group differences and overall inequality differ from those in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Everyone over 50 can enjoy life more, and this book shows how. It tells readers everything they need to know to live a fulfilled life and how to maintain a healthy, youthful attitude. Aging with Enthusiasm, Grace and Dignity provides a complete guide for staying healthy physically, mentally, socially, emotionally, and spiritually...read more

Product Description: This book describes the multidimensional assessment of older persons, offering unique insights into the state of this art. It combines comprehensive reviews of the most widely used instruments for measuring a variety of domains (such as physiological status, cognition, affect, social function, quality of life, physical environment, and caregiver burden) with an exploration of the viriety of uses to which these assessments have been put...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old. It looks too at such topics as the "biomedicalization" of aging; the role of business and the media in changing societal images of the old; the fact and fiction behind "senior power"; the multibillion dollar nursing home industry; and the role of advanced capitalist nations in creating economic dependency among elders in the Third World.

Product Description: This book should be of interest to upper division and graduate courses in nursing, sociology, social work, gerontology or related fields that discuss the very elderly.