Exploring the potential of poetry and poetic language as a means of conveying perspectives on later life, this book examines questions such as 'how can we understand ageing and later life?
Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern.
The age-friendly community movement is a global phenomenon, currently growing with the support of the WHO and multiple international and national organizations in the field of aging.
The testimonies of individuals who survived the Holocaust as children pose distinct emotional and intellectual challenges for researchers: as now-adult interviewees recall profound childhood experiences of suffering and persecution, they also invoke their own historical awareness and memories of their postwar lives, requiring readers to follow simultaneous, disparate narratives.
Based on seventeen months of ethnographic research among Indonesian eldercare workers in Japan and Indonesia, this book is the first ethnography to research Indonesian care workers relationships with the cared-for elderly, their Japanese colleagues, and their employers.
Written by Caleb Finch, one of the leading scientists of our time, The Biology of Human Longevity: Inflammation, Nutrition, and Aging in the Evolution of Lifespans synthesizes several decades of top research on the topic of human aging and longevity particularly on the recent theories of inflammation and its effects on human health.
Western thought traditionally divides the human being into a body-mind dualism, a divide realized in the divergent research fields of geriatrics and gerontology; the first examines the physical body, and the second focuses instead upon psychological and social aspects of aging.
Women and Positive Aging: An International Perspective presents the noted research in the fields of psychology, gerontology, and gender studies, reflecting the increasingly popular and pervasive positive aging issues of women in today's society from different cohorts, backgrounds, and life situations.
Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 52, includes chapters that highlight some of the most recent research in the field of developmental psychology.
This fun and engaging activity book helps to teach teens to manage emotions and develop relationships by tracking their progress using Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) techniques.
The first book offering support for parents and carers of children and young people with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD), this guidebook explains the condition as well as the impact that it may have in education settings, family life and socialisation.
Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in counselling, life story work or direct work.
This innovative and comprehensive reference book provides the most up-to-date information pertaining to the translational research field of oxidative stress and aging.
En cierta ocasión conversando informalmente con el doctor Luis Enrique Ruiz López, conocedor como pocos de la historia y el trajinar de la Universidad de La Salle, me decía que esta había tenido tres momentos fundantes de creación y transformación profundas.
El presente libro, fruto de una reflexión e inquietud profunda del autor dada la actual situación de la salud en el país, pretende explicitar y analizar la concepción de justicia que orienta el modelo de salud y sus componentes de financiación, aseguramiento, atención y prestación, y reconocer los avances en atención sanitaria en Colombia durante el periodo 1993-2016.
Este libro explora los significados, las posibilidades y los límites de la humanización de la salud principalmente desde la perspectiva de la bioética y de las ciencias humanas y sociales, renunciando a la racionalidad empresarial y a la retórica publicitaria que puede tener el concepto.
Esta obra eleva el oficio de maestro a una dignidad de superioridad propia de los magisteres o de las magistras, de por mas necesario en una Colombia que ambivalentemente exalta y denigra, alaba y demerita, la geografia nacional.
En el marco de las celebraciones del Bicentenario de la Independencia de Colombia, la Universidad de La Salle se pregunta por el devenir del Desarrollo Humano a partir de este acontecimiento.
"El comienzo del horrible final de la pubertad tardía" es la destrucción de los anhelos y sueños femeninos en las relaciones, la maternidad, los ideales de belleza y las limitaciones sociales.
How the love and labor of parents have changed our understanding of autismAutism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation.
El desarrollo de los seres humanos es un fenómeno fascinante que todos podemos observar, pero que se aprecia mejor si tenemos algunos elementos para entenderlo.
Seit 2018 besteht in der stationären Altenpflege in Deutschland das rechtlich verankerte Angebot einer gesundheitlichen Vorausplanung, international als Advance Care Planning (ACP) bekannt.
