Psychology of ageing

The Living Well with Dementia Course: A Workbook for Facilitators will be an indispensable guide to providing support to people after they have received a dementia diagnosis.

This book provides insight into the primary issues faced by older adults; the services and benefits available to them; and the knowledge base, techniques, and skills necessary to work effectively in a therapeutic relationship.

A New Approach to Dementia: Examining Sensory and Perceptual Impairment is a groundbreaking work which highlights the non-memory impairments of the dementias to improve both early recognition of dementia and clinical diagnosis, as well as interventions and care.

New Developments in Dementia Prevention Research addresses a dearth of knowledge about dementia prevention and shows the importance of considering the broader social impact of certain risk factors, including the role we each play in our own cognitive health throughout the lifespan.

Reliable, easily administered, and objective ways of assessing the well-being of the elderly and their use of, and need for, services are rare.

Longtime Companions: Autobiographies of Gay Male Fidelity provides a sophisticated alternative to "e;anything goes"e; gay literature.

This book brings together some of the best known experts in their fields to offer a cross-disciplinary summary of current research on human memory.

First Published in 2017.

Positive Ageing and Learning from Centenarians evaluates the mechanisms of positive ageing in a uniquely interdisciplinary way to explore the question of how we age and how some people age successfully.

This book examines the concept of retirement, how it has changed, and what the future holds for the next generation of retirees.

In the 1990s providing mental health services to the elderly and particularly to elderly Native Americans had been an issue of some concern for the last several decades.

This book offers an analytical review of the state of knowledge on elderly sexual abuse and presents new data that will confront some of the accepted ideas and some of the myths associated with this specific form of sexual violence.

As the population of older Americans grows, meaningful perspectives on aging are needed by both the young and the old.

This book presents the latest research that shows how design thinking, making, and acting contribute to the co-designing and development of products, spaces, and services with people living with dementia.

Presenting best practices for assessment and intervention with older adults experiencing cognitive decline, this book draws on cutting-edge research and extensive clinical experience.

Latino Elders and the Twenty-First Century: Issues and Challenges for Culturally Competent Research and Practice will help social workers, researchers, and organizations identify and analyze ways of meeting the demands of the increasing number of elderly Latinos.

The Handbook of Research Methods in Human Memory presents a collection of chapters on methodology used by researchers in investigating human memory.

This volume describes how well we maintain the knowledge we acquire throughout life.

This study establishes age as a category of literary history, delineating age in its interaction with gender and narrative genre.

Drug and Substance Abuse Among Older Adults provides a timely, comprehensive overview and analysis of the silent epidemic of drug and substance abuse involving elderly Americans.

This book brings together some of the best known experts in their fields to offer a cross-disciplinary summary of current research on human memory.

Therapy with Men after Sixty is a breakthrough book for professionals that helps them open their clients' minds to new ways of thinking, behaving, and feeling about the aging process.

Here is a unique text that examines the lives of middle-aged and old women.

The recently widowed experience many complex problems, and an understanding of their needs and the kinds of difficulties they encounter is essential if appropriate services and help are to be mobilized.

A Practical Guide to Geriatric Neuropsychology focuses on the skills required in testing and treating the older adult population.

In 1970, the best-seller Our Bodies Ourselves was published.

Sleeping patterns change with age, whether we are growing up, or growing old.

Group Psychodrama for Dementia, Old Age, and Loneliness offers a fresh approach for professionals working with older individuals by employing new and exciting custom methodologies in psychodrama, particularly for clients with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia.

This interdisciplinary volume presents international research and theories focusing on the development of the individual across the life span.

Design for Wellbeing charts the development and application of design research to improve the personal and societal wellbeing and happiness of people.

Understand the complex ethical, legal, medical, and psychological issues of the most common form of elder abuse!

What physical and psychological changes can I expect when going through the menopause?

Containing ideas and perspectives, this monograph examines the evolutionary and future considerations for diversity in aging.

Can ageing really be a positive experience?

Care-giving in dementia is a new speciality with its own rapidly growing body of knowledge.

Create programs that make good use of the leisure time of the elderly, and of those who care for them!

Understanding Death and Dying teaches students about death, dying, bereavement, and afterlife beliefs by asking them to apply this content to their lives and to the world around them.

As developing countries increasingly confront the issues of an aging population, this important book identifies the key period in the life cycle in which changes to the body, as well as concomitant psychological developments, result in the entering of a new phase of life, maturescence.

Aging and Work in the 21st Century, 2nd edition, reviews, summarizes, and integrates existing literature from various disciplines with regard to aging and work, but with a focus on recent advances in the field.

Here is detailed, practical advice for the administrator or practitioner of long-term and senior care services.

This text employs a communication perspective to examine the aging process and the ability of individuals to adapt successfully to aging.

Doutes, remises en cause, envies de tout recommencer : le milieu de la vie est souvent une période de crise.

Organized by age for easy referencing, the dozens of creative activities in Everyday Play are perfect for children aged three to five, and they develop the fine motor skills every child needs for school.

Current demographical patterns predict an aging worldwide population.

In 1980 old people comprised over half the clients of Local Authority Social Services Departments and accounted for about half of their resources, yet until then residential care of the aged had been a backwater of both research and practice.

A Practical Guide to Geriatric Neuropsychology focuses on the skills required in testing and treating the older adult population.

What are the changes we see over the life-span?

Healthy ageing has long been a neglected area of epidemiological research as the traditional focus has been on specific chronic diseases of older life.

Older people who would prefer to stay in their homes and states whose funds are being depleted by the rising costs of Medicaid payments to nursing homes find the current system of long-term care unsatisfactory.