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Understanding quality of life in old age
- Title
- Understanding quality of life in old age / edited by Alan Walker.
- Publication
- Maidenhead ; New York : Open University Press, 2005.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Walker, Alan, 1949-
- Description
- xii, 209 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This book considers key findings from the Growing Older research programme and presents them in a lively thematic format. It discusses essential topics such as environment, family, bereavement, identity, and social interaction and describes key concepts and measures. Using data drawn from a range of different research projects, the book illustrates considerable methodological diversity to capture a broad picture of quality of life. Key implications for future research on quality of life in older age are also proposed." "The book is a companion volume to Growing Older: Quality of Life in Old Age edited by Alan Walker and Catherine Hagan Hennessy and is key reading on a range of undergraduate and Masters level courses including social gerontology, social work, sociology and social policy."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Growing older
- Uniform Title
- Growing older.
- Subject
- Older people > Great Britain > Social conditions
- Quality of life > Great Britain
- Older people > Services for
- Older people > Care
- Quality of life
- Older people
- Aged [MESH]
- Quality of Life [MESH]
- Quality of Life
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- quality of life
- elderly
- Older people
- Older people > Care
- Older people > Services for
- Older people > Social conditions
- Quality of life
- Ouderen
- Kwaliteit van het bestaan
- Great Britain
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-201) and index.
- Contents
- Investigating quality of life in the Growing Older Programme / Alan Walker and Catherine Hagan Hennessy -- Quality of life: meaning and measurement / Mary Gilhooly, Ken Gilhooly and Ann Bowling -- Dimensions of the inequalities in quality of life in older age / Paul Higgs [and others] -- Getting out and about / Caroline Holland [and others] -- Family and economic roles / Lynda Clarke, Maria Evandrou and Peter Warr -- Social involvement: aspects of gender and ethnicity / Kate Davidson, Lorna Warren and Mary Maynard -- social isolation and loneliness / Christina Victor and Thomas Scharf -- Frailty, identity and the quality of later life / Kevin McKee [and others] -- Identity, meaning and social support / Christopher McKevitt [and others] -- Elderly bereaved spouses: issues of belief, well-being and support / Peter Speck [and others] -- Conclusion: from research to action / Alan Walker.
- ISBN
- 0335215246
- 9780335215249
- 0335215238
- 9780335215232
- OCLC
- ocm58832098
- 58832098
- SCSB-1378827
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library