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The cultural context of aging: worldwide perspectives
Publisher
Praeger
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
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From the Book - 3rd ed.
Human maturity and global aging in cultural context / Jay Sokolovsky
A Global Vision of Aging, Culture and Context / Jay Sokolovsky. Global perspectives on the demography of aging / Kevin Kinsella
Complaint discourse, aging and caregiving among the Ju/hoansi of Botswana / Harriet G. Rosenberg
Beyond the grandmother hypothesis: evolutionary models of human longevity / Michael Gurven and Hillard Kaplan
From successful aging to conscious aging / Harry Moody
Is killing necessarily murder? : moral questions surrounding assisted suicide and death / Anthony Glascock
Menopause: a biocultural event / Yewoubdar Beyene
Web book: "Culture and the meaning of a good old age" / Christine L. Fry, et al.
The Life-Course and Intergenerational Ties in Cultural and Global Context / Jay Sokolovsky. Elders, ancients, ancestors and the modern life course / Maria G. Cattell and Steven M. Albert
Images of aging: cultural representations of later life / Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth
When old is new: cultural spaces and symbolic meaning in late life / Jennie Keith
Global perspectives on widowhood and aging / Maria G. Cattell
Web book: "Exchange and reciprocity among two generations of Japanese and American women" / Hiroko Akiyama, Toni C. Antonucci and Ruth Campbell
Web book: "Grandparenting styles: the contemporary Native American experience" / Joan Weibel-Orlando.
Aging, Globalization and Societal Transformation / Jay Sokolovsky. Globalization and the risks of aging / Christine L. Fry
The new realities of aging in contemporary China: coping with the decline in family care / Hong Zhang
Aging proletariats in a twenty-first century indigenous Mexican community / Jay Sokolovsky
Transforming the cultural scripts for aging and elder care in Japan / Brenda R. Jenike and John W. Traphagan
Standing up for others: the AMIGOS volunteer model for working with elders in Peru / Dena Shenk and Joan Mahon
Danish home care policy and the family: implications for the United States / Mary Stuart and Eigil Boll Hansen.
The Ethnic Dimension in Aging: Culture, Context and Creativity / Jay Sokolovsk. Ethnic elders and the limits of family support in a globalizing world / Jay Sokolovsky
Losing, using and crafting spaces for aging: Muslim Iranian American seniors in California's Santa Clara Valley / Mary Elaine Hegland and associates
Aging in exile: family support and emotional well-being among older Cuban immigrants in the United States / Iveris L. Martinez
Ethnic and cross-cultural perspectives on custodial grandparenting / Bert Hayslip Jr.
African Americans growing older in Chicago: living in a time and place of change / Madelyn Iris
Web book: "Age of wisdom: elderly black women in family and church" / Jane W. Peterson
Web book: "The social and cultural context of adaptive aging by southeast Asian elders" / Barbara W.K. Yee
Web book : "Dementia in cultural context : development and decline of a caregivers support group in a Latin population" / Neil Henderson.
Families, Communities and Elderscapes: Transforming Cultural Spaces for Aging / Jay Sokolovsky. The structural vulnerability of older people in a matrilineal society: the Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia / Edi Indrizal, Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill
Growing older in world cities: benefits and burdens / Michael K. Gusmano
Elder residences and outsourced sons: remaking aging in cosmopolitan India / Sarah Lamb
Aging in the hood: creating and sustaining elder-friendly environments / Philip B. Stafford
Elders, urban community greening and the rise of civic ecology / Jay Sokolovsky
Spaces of age, snowbirds and the gerontology of mobility: the elderscapes of Charlotte County, Florida / Stephen Katz
Web book: "Social support systems of rural older women: a comparison of the United States and Denmark" / Dena Shenk and Kitter Christiansen
Web book photo essay: "Where are the bones in their noses? : community aged in North American RV camps and in Papua New Guinea" / Dorothy Counts and David Counts
Web book: "An organization for the elderly, by the elderly, a senior center in the United States" / Yohko Tsuji
Web book : "One thousand points of blight: old, female and homeless in New York City" / Jay Sokolovsky.
- The Quest for Gerontopia: Culture and Health in Late Life / Jay Sokolovsky. Exceptional longevity and the quest for healthy aging: insights from the Okinawa Centenarian Study / D. Craig Willcox ... [et al.]
Eldertopia: a vision for old age in a new world / William Thomas
La cura degli nostri cari anziani: family and community elder care roles in contemporary Italy / Joan Weibel-Orlando
Battling a new epidemic: American Indian elders and diabetes / Linda Carson Henderson
Brain failure, late life and culture in Japan / John W. Traphagan
The global Florida: long-term care in postindustrial countries / Larry Polivka
Beyond the institution: dementia care and the promise of the Green House Project / Athena McLean
Between humans and ghosts: the decrepit elderly in a Polynesian society / Judith C. Barker.
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