Ageing and Gerontology - All titles
The New Age of Ageing
How Society Needs to Change
Debunking the myth of the ageing time bomb, this timely book from the authors of Retiring with Attitude challenges our assumptions and stereotypes and demonstrates that we are capable of living better together longer in this new, older world.

- AvailablePaperback
GBP 15.99GBP 7.99 Add to basket - AvailableKindle
GBP 15.99GBP 7.99 - AvailableEPUB
GBP 15.99GBP 7.99 Add to basket
Mental Health in Later Life
Taking a Life Course Approach
Drawing together material from a number of different fields the book analyses the meaning and determinants of mental health amongst older populations and offers a critical review of the lifecourse, ageing and mental health debate.

- AvailablePaperback
GBP 30.99GBP 15.49 Add to basket - AvailableHardback
GBP 74.99GBP 37.49 Add to basket - AvailableEPUB
GBP 30.99GBP 15.49 Add to basket
Managing the ageing experience
Learning from older people
This book provides an engaging analysis of how older people manage the ageing experience and gives the reader an insight into what this means for policy and practice.

- AvailablePaperback
GBP 29.99GBP 14.99 Add to basket - AvailableHardback
GBP 79.99GBP 39.99 Add to basket
Intimacy and Ageing
New Relationships in Later Life
This timely book, part of the Ageing in a Global Context series, addresses the gap in knowledge about late life repartnering and provides a comprehensive map of the changing landscape of late life intimacy.

- AvailablePaperback
GBP 26.99GBP 13.49 Add to basket - AvailableHardback
GBP 85.99GBP 42.99 Add to basket - AvailableKindle
GBP 26.99GBP 13.49 - AvailableEPUB
GBP 26.99GBP 13.49 Add to basket
Intersections of Ageing, Gender and Sexualities
Multidisciplinary International Perspectives
This edited collection examines ageing, gender, and sexualities from multidisciplinary and geographically diverse perspectives and looks at how these factors combine with other social divisions to affect experiences of ageing.

- AvailablePaperback
GBP 26.99GBP 13.49 Add to basket - AvailableHardback
GBP 79.99GBP 39.99 Add to basket - AvailableEPUB
GBP 26.99GBP 13.49 Add to basket - AvailablePDF
Inside Retirement Housing
Designing, Developing and Sustaining Later Lifestyles
Through stories and visual vignettes, it presents a range of stakeholders involved in the design, construction, management and habitation of third-age housing in the UK, to highlight the importance of design decisions for the everyday lives of older people.

HIV, Sex and Sexuality in Later Life
Drawing on international perspectives and research, this book explores the experiences of sex and sexuality in individuals and groups living with HIV in later life (50+).

Health, well-being and older people
With moves towards greater integration of health and social care services, there is a need for improved understanding of the importance of a person-centred, holistic approach to these fields. This accessible text provides readers across the health and social care professions with a guide to understanding the value of this approach.

- AvailablePaperback
GBP 28.99GBP 14.49 Add to basket - AvailableHardback
GBP 74.99GBP 37.49 Add to basket
The health and social care divide
The experiences of older people
Improving partnership working between health and social care agencies has recently gained increased impetus as a result of New Labour's commitment to joined-up government. This book provides a detailed but accessible introduction to policy and practice at the interface between health and social care.

- AvailablePaperback
GBP 24.99GBP 12.49 Add to basket - AvailableHardback
GBP 74.99GBP 37.49 Add to basket
Health and Care in Ageing Societies
A New International Approach
In the context of global ageing societies, there are few challenges to the underlying assumption that policies should promote functional health and independence in older people and contain the costs of care. This important book provides such a challenge.

- AvailablePaperback
GBP 29.99GBP 14.99 Add to basket - AvailableHardback
GBP 85.99GBP 42.99 Add to basket
The harassment and abuse of older people in the private rented sector
Help the Aged funded this major study because of concerns that older people living in private rented housing were vulnerable to abuse and harassment by landlords. Drawing upon detailed research with older people, professionals and landlords in six different localities, the report provides the first major study of this important issue.

- AvailablePaperback
GBP 19.99GBP 9.99 Add to basket
Grandparenting Practices Around the World
This exciting collection presents an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the unprecedented phenomenon of increasing numbers of grandparents worldwide, co-existing and interacting for longer periods of time with their grandchildren.

- AvailablePaperback
GBP 24.99GBP 12.49 Add to basket - AvailableHardback
GBP 79.99GBP 39.99 Add to basket - AvailableEPUB
GBP 24.99GBP 12.49 Add to basket - AvailableKindle
GBP 24.99GBP 12.49