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Perspectives and Problems in Cutaneous Gerontology

Nutrition in Gerontology

Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology

This volume is a collection of reports dealing with geriatrics and gerontology. The first section provides an introduction to the common medical and non-medical problems of aging. The second section concentrates on one of the most devastati...

Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology

Herman T. Blumenthal, PhD, MD; Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Journal of Gerontology, Volume 29, Issue 5, 1 September 1974, Pages 589, https://...

Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology.

Part 1 Human ageing. Part 2 Clinical medicine and old age: cardiovascular system central nervous system gastrointestinal system the endocrine system the respiratory system musculoskeletal system blood other clinical topics. Part 3 Medical a...

Principles of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology

Gerontology

With millions of men and women growing older, baffled by changes in themselves and in the world around them, the country has a definite need for not only large scale provisions for their care but also for a specific and individual service f...

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics Get access Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, C. Eisdorfer (Ed.). Springer Publishing Company, New York, 1987, 324 pp., $32.95 (hardcover). Journal of Gerontology, Volume 42, Issue 6, No...

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics

This volume is planned as the first in a series of annual reviews designed "to encompass the broad spectrum of concerns in aging, from empirical and theoretical literature to clinical studies and services for the elderly" and is expected to...

Gerontology - anthropology in gerontological research

Topics on gerontology are grossly under-represented in the German anthropological field of research. Nevertheless, new establishments of distinct research centres in the gerontological area indicate a trend towards innovative and interdisci...

Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology

The Challenge of Cultural Gerontology

Over the last decade, Cultural Gerontology has emerged as one of the most vibrant elements of writing about age (Twigg, J., & Martin, W. (Eds.) (2015). The Routledge handbook of cultural gerontology. London: Routledge). Reflecting the wider...

Principles of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology

Hazzard’s Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology

Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

Later years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts. No longer confined to the sphere of social welfare, they are now studied within a wider cultural framework that encompasses new experiences and new modes ...

Qualitative Gerontology

This commentary examines four articles in qualitative and humanistic gerontology, with the purpose of explicating the goals of such work, the criteria that make them exemplary, and the contribution they make to an enriched understanding of ...

Self, Society, and the "New Gerontology"

The "new gerontology," built on the concept of successful aging, sets forth the preconditions for and the end product of the process of aging successfully. Focused on health and active participation in life, it vests largely within individu...

Educational Gerontology

Disciplining Old Age: The Formation of Gerontological Knowledge

In Disciplining Old Age Stephen Katz gives us a sophisticated and theoretically rigorous approach to what gerentology does. He deftly and subtly combines the theories of Foucault, Bourdieu, and the Althusser in his analysis of what he calls...

Educational Gerontology

The term "educational gerontology" was first used in a 1970 doctoral program at the University of Michigan to denote those "activities and study that occur at the interface of education and gerontology" (Peterson 1980: 68).It achieved acade...