Ageing (eBook, ePUB)

Recent Advances and Creative Responses
Redaktion: Butler, Alan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1985, this book examines some of the positive and innovative work going on in the field of human ageing, placing particular emphasis on issues such as: the use of leisure in later life; the importance of appropriate housing and the psychologist's role in prevention and early detection of disorders.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040007549
• Artikelnr.: 70228873

Autorenporträt

Alan Butler

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. 1. Introduction A. Butler Part One: The Overview 2. Ageing - Whose
Creative Response A. Tinker 3. The Ageing Class: Vanguard of the Evolution
E. Midwinter Part Two: Leisure, Friendship and Association 4. Listening to
the Voices of Older Women: Creativity and Social Work Responses A. Froggatt
5. Voluntary Association and the Social Construction of Old Age D. Jerrome
6. Managing Everyday Life: The Trivial Round Made Significant S.O. Daatland
7. Constraints to Creativity: The Case of Leisure Facility Managers M.
Bernard 8. The St John's Senior Centre: A Creative Development V. Ivers 9.
Intimacy at a Distance Under the Microscope A. M. Warnes, D. Howes and L.
Took 10. Leisure Activities in the Elderly in Urban Shopping Centres: A
Case Study Analysis M.J. MacLean, D. Brown and P. Sijpkes Part Three:
Aspects of Social Welfare 11. Short-Term Funded Projects: A Creative
Response to an Ageing Population? A. Osborn 12. Innovation in the Care of
the Elderly: The Role of Joint Finance E. Ferlie, D. Challis and B. Davies
13. Welfare Benefits and the Elderly: Some Preliminary Results from the
G.L.C. Take-up Campaign C.R. Victor 14. Sheltered Housing: Some Unanswered
Questions G. Fennell 15. Sheltered Housing: The Warden's View C. Phillipson
and P. Strang 16. Report of a Pilot Study of Delayed Discharges from
Hospital: Liverpool 1983-4 R.M. Eley and L.M. Middleton 17. Ageing in
Turkey: Patterns, Provisions and Prospects C.S. Gilleard, A.A. Gurkan and
E. Gilleard Part Four: Developments in Psychology 18. Progress Towards the
Elucidation of Early Dementia: A Community Study N. Wood, J.R.M. Copeland,
R.T. Searle, C. McWilliam, M.E. Dewey, D.M. Forshaw, V.K. Sharma, P.
Saunders, J. Collins and C. Clulow 19. The Contribution of the National
Adult Reading Test to the Detection of Dementia Amongst Community Dwelling
Old People M.G. Binks and A.D.M. Davies 20. Life Stress and Depression in
the Elderly: Experiences from a Community Study S.J. Wilkinson, O. James
and A.D.M. Davies 21. Sleep and the Elderly: Some Psychological Dimensions
and their Implications for Treatment K. Gledhill 22. Attributions of Staff
Working with the Elderly: A Pilot Study C. Martin 23. Social Situations and
Self-Images of Older Women O. Cibulski 24. A Brief Self-Report Scale for
Assessing Personal Engagement in the Elderly: Reliability and Validity K.
Morgan, H.D. Dallosso and S.B.J. Ebrahim. Details of Contributors. Index.