Author: Elaine M. BrodyPublisher:
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Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
The Dependent Elderly and Women's Changing Roles
Author: Elaine M. BrodyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Families Caring for an Aging America
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309448093
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an older adult with a health or functional limitation. The nation's family caregivers provide the lion's share of long-term care for our older adult population. They are also central to older adults' access to and receipt of health care and community-based social services. Yet the need to recognize and support caregivers is among the least appreciated challenges facing the aging U.S. population. Families Caring for an Aging America examines the prevalence and nature of family caregiving of older adults and the available evidence on the effectiveness of programs, supports, and other interventions designed to support family caregivers. This report also assesses and recommends policies to address the needs of family caregivers and to minimize the barriers that they encounter in trying to meet the needs of older adults.
Women and Aging
Author: Varda MuhlbauerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319093061
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
These are paradoxical times to be an older woman. As individual older women take the stage as role models in the arts and the public sphere, female elders as a group are marginalized as dependent, declining and unimportant. Women and Aging surveys the evolving sociopolitical landscape in an era still struggling with gender and age discrimination. This insightful volume recasts familiar concepts such as social roles, appearance, health, sexuality and transition through the related lenses of empowerment/restraint and quality of life/well-being for a deeper understanding of the disparities that exist both with men and within their own gender. Two especially relevant questions emerge from this framework: how women over 60 are contributing to the current climate of societal change and how these positive developments can improve the lives of older women as a whole. Featured topics analyze the wider implications of older women's experiences as family members, sensual and sexual beings, drivers of economies and members of a diverse population worldwide: Older women, power and the body. Older women, economic power and consumerism. The impact of multiple roles on older women: Strain or enrichment? Older women, leadership and encore careers. Sexuality in older women: Desirability and desire. Lesbians over 60: Newer every day. Clinical interventions to empower older women. A significant advance in femi nist research, Women and Aging brings path-breaking perspectives to scholars in women’s studies, gerontology, psychology, sociology, social work and human development, whether they study women who have overcome barriers or those who need support in changing the rules.
The Homefire Keepers
Author: Tammie O. VeinotJournal of Human Services Abstracts
Author: Women in the Middle
Author: Elaine M. BrodyPublisher: Springer Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780826163820
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Daughters are the main caregivers to elderly disabled parents, most often in their middle years, and are caught in the middle of multiple competing demands on their time and energy. Dr. Brody revisits this phenomenon in this updated edition of her groundbreaking work.
Developments in Aging
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on AgingPublisher:
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Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages :
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Statistical Reporter
Author: Inventory of Data Sources on the Functionally Limited Elderly
Author: United States. Interagency Statistical Committee on Long-term Care for the ElderlyPublisher:
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Category : Aged
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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