Psychology of ageing

Learn to help others understand, cope with, and even overcome emotional and physical suffering.

Learn to help others understand, cope with, and even overcome emotional and physical suffering.

This highly practical volume presents valuable insights for all professionals who provide activities for the impaired elderly.

This highly practical volume presents valuable insights for all professionals who provide activities for the impaired elderly.

Help families of institutionalized elders with this compassionate and practical manual.

An invaluable resource for the mental health professional who must deal with the uncooperative and difficult elderly patient.

Ethnicity and Gerontological Social Work presents a compassionate and illuminating update on ethnicity in this area of social work.

Ethnicity and Gerontological Social Work presents a compassionate and illuminating update on ethnicity in this area of social work.

Intended for long-term care providers, consumers, and gerontology students, this valuable new guidebook and manual encourages the promotion and enhancement of adult day care as an essential link in long-term care.

Intended for long-term care providers, consumers, and gerontology students, this valuable new guidebook and manual encourages the promotion and enhancement of adult day care as an essential link in long-term care.

In this thought-provoking book, professionals in the field of aging examine the history and concept of the life review.

In this thought-provoking book, professionals in the field of aging examine the history and concept of the life review.

Here is a unique and important volume that pays tribute to the contributions of the National Mental Health Association to the field of prevention.

Here is a unique and important volume that pays tribute to the contributions of the National Mental Health Association to the field of prevention.

In this highly practical volume, the contributing authors explore some of the dimensions associated with aging in place.

In this highly practical volume, the contributing authors explore some of the dimensions associated with aging in place.

An invaluable resource for the mental health professional who must deal with the uncooperative and difficult elderly patient.

Open up Dignity and Old Age, and you'll find a wealth of thoughtful suggestions for how you and others can gain more respect and admiration for your relatives, neighbors, and patients who are in the latter stages of life.

Open up Dignity and Old Age, and you'll find a wealth of thoughtful suggestions for how you and others can gain more respect and admiration for your relatives, neighbors, and patients who are in the latter stages of life.

This volume is the fourth in a series designed to facilitate inter-disciplinary communication between scientists concerned with the description of societal phenomena and those investigating adult development.

This volume is the fourth in a series designed to facilitate inter-disciplinary communication between scientists concerned with the description of societal phenomena and those investigating adult development.

Here is a major text in psychogeriatrics for all professionals in the field of aging and mental health.

Here is a major text in psychogeriatrics for all professionals in the field of aging and mental health.

This pioneering volume taps the resources and skills of top rehabilitation professionals and applies them to the person with Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias.

This pioneering volume taps the resources and skills of top rehabilitation professionals and applies them to the person with Alzheimer's disease and other related dementias.

This is the second volume based on the annual University of Miami Symposia on Stress and Coping.

This is the second volume based on the annual University of Miami Symposia on Stress and Coping.

Aging in the Designed Environment is the key sourcebook for physical and occupational therapists developing and implementing environmental designs for the aging.

Aging in the Designed Environment is the key sourcebook for physical and occupational therapists developing and implementing environmental designs for the aging.

This thorough book provides valuable information on guardianship and alternative methods for serving judgment-impaired adults.

This thorough book provides valuable information on guardianship and alternative methods for serving judgment-impaired adults.

Focusing on the need for developing new service delivery models for the aged, Health Care of the Aged examines fiscal, political, and social criteria influencing this challenge of the 1990s.

Focusing on the need for developing new service delivery models for the aged, Health Care of the Aged examines fiscal, political, and social criteria influencing this challenge of the 1990s.

This important new book describes the origins, developments, and current status of personal response systems, a new means for persons at risk who live alone to get help in case of emergency.

This important new book describes the origins, developments, and current status of personal response systems, a new means for persons at risk who live alone to get help in case of emergency.

Within the context of long-range planning, this book examines the changing responsibilities of the state and family toward elders in different societies around the world.

Within the context of long-range planning, this book examines the changing responsibilities of the state and family toward elders in different societies around the world.

This helpful book explores mental health issues relating to elders who do not fit into the "e;usual"e; mold for research--white, married or widowed, urban or suburban persons with adult children.

This helpful book explores mental health issues relating to elders who do not fit into the "e;usual"e; mold for research--white, married or widowed, urban or suburban persons with adult children.

Here is an informative overview of the causes and consequences of elder abuse in countries around the world.

Here is an informative overview of the causes and consequences of elder abuse in countries around the world.

Volunteerism in Geriatric Settings is an instructional tool for activity directors and others interested in successful volunteer program management.

Volunteerism in Geriatric Settings is an instructional tool for activity directors and others interested in successful volunteer program management.

This anthology responds to the recurring call for quality in home care service provision.

This anthology responds to the recurring call for quality in home care service provision.

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.

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.

This book explores what is known about healthy living among older women, emphasizing overcoming illness and adversity.

Against My Better Judgment: An Intimate Memoir of an Eminent Gay Psychologist is an extraordinary and moving account of the life of a gay man in his late 60s after he loses his companion of 40 years to cancer.

Against My Better Judgment: An Intimate Memoir of an Eminent Gay Psychologist is an extraordinary and moving account of the life of a gay man in his late 60s after he loses his companion of 40 years to cancer.