As the world undergoes huge demographic shifts with aging populations and increasing life expectancy, it is essential to recognize the importance of understanding aging in different international, cultural, social, and economic contexts.
This textbook provides an up-to-date guide to theories within psychology and sociology relevant to understanding the major life transitions within adulthood and older age and demonstrates how they can be applied in practice.
This timely book provides an understanding of how an ageing population can maintain health in the ageing process in their preferred homes and neighbourhoods while coping with global crises of climate change events, infectious diseases, systemic violence, and radical or extreme industrialisation.
This book focuses on the official regional population projections of Japan and examines its methodologies and results, written in English, by Japanese pioneers in this field for readers who are non-Japanese.
This book focuses on the official regional population projections of Japan and examines its methodologies and results, written in English, by Japanese pioneers in this field for readers who are non-Japanese.
As the world undergoes huge demographic shifts with aging populations and increasing life expectancy, it is essential to recognize the importance of understanding aging in different international, cultural, social, and economic contexts.
This book examines the history of aging and old age during the Qing dynasty, a pivotal period marked by rapid population growth that resulted in the largest elderly population in imperial China.
Essays on Music, Adolescence, and Identity: The Adolescentia Project explores music consumption, self-discovery, media culture, and memory through autoethnographic essays on albums we loved during adolescence covering three decades (1980-2010) as the music industry and socio-cultural identity landscapes in the United States significantly changed.
This book examines the relationship between retirement and health of older people in Japan's super-aging society and provides a key to understanding the remarkable longevity of the population.
The Campus Queen in Literature and Culture: Prom Queen Profiles explores the nuanced relationship between femininity and power and provides a scholarly framework for understanding the evolution of the prom queen's archetypal ubiquity.
The Brain Fitness Blueprint takes you on a transformative journey into brain fitness, revealing the secrets to optimising cognitive performance and physical vitalityIn today s unpredictable and often overwhelming world, a fit brain is no longer just about IQ.
Originally published in 1939, British Book Trade Organisation: A Report on the Work of the Joint Committee is a twelve-year study of the methods of book sales in Britain.
Originally published in 1939, British Book Trade Organisation: A Report on the Work of the Joint Committee is a twelve-year study of the methods of book sales in Britain.
Originally published in 1957, The Book World Today was the most comprehensive survey yet attempted of the making and distribution of books in Britain at the time.
The sixth edition of this successful and well-regarded book is a useful ready-reference for the practicing pediatrician and nurse and gives invaluable guidance for trainees in pediatrics, neonatology, and neonatal nursing.
The sixth edition of this successful and well-regarded book is a useful ready-reference for the practicing pediatrician and nurse and gives invaluable guidance for trainees in pediatrics, neonatology, and neonatal nursing.
South Africa's Gen Z is currently navigating a dynamic landscape of social, cultural, and political change, balancing issues of identity, belonging, and connecting in a diverse world.
This book gathers peer-review contributions to the 7th International Workshop on Gerontechnology, IWoG 2024, held on November 28, 2024, in Évora, Portugal.
This book gathers peer-review contributions to the 7th International Workshop on Gerontechnology, IWoG 2024, held on November 28, 2024, in Évora, Portugal.
L'analyse du film Mignonnes offre l'opportunite d'explorer la place des jeunes filles au sein de la societe occidentale a travers le prisme cinematographique, tant d'un point de vue geographique qu'historique.
The social life of older rural Americans is made up of relationships formed through kinship, their neighborhoods, and the organizations to which they belong.
Despite increasing attention on unaccompanied Central American youth migration to the United States, little empirical research has examined the crucial role of language in the incorporation process, particularly for Indigenous youth.
If you're anything like me, you've heard or read Jesus' parable of the prodigal son and thought to yourself, "e;How come the Faithful Brother was the recipient of the father's correction?
Despite increasing attention on unaccompanied Central American youth migration to the United States, little empirical research has examined the crucial role of language in the incorporation process, particularly for Indigenous youth.
From landfill to lifesaving - for more than twenty years a groupof northern Canadian volunteers has been saving tons ofredundant (but still useful) medical equipment.
