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Providing a comprehensive overview of issues of ageing from a global perspective this ambitious text introduces the reader to a wide range of issues and policies on ageing. Topics examined include: theoretical perspectives on ageing in society; demographic trends; roles played by older people as political actors; migration; health; pensions; family and institutional care; and elder abuse. This will be an essential text for students of social gerontology, as well as an invaluable resource for students of nursing, social work, social policy and development studies.
Services for Elders
Services for Elders
Three aspects of services concern us most in this chapter. The first is that services for older men and women are big business in large parts of the world (see Observer, 26 November 1989). The second is that older men and women provide services for each other and for other age groups. ...
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