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The Cultural Context of Aging Worldwide Perspectives
Third Edition
Jay Sokolovsky
Book Code: C9288
ISBN: 0-275-99288-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99288-0
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 12/30/2008
List Price: $124.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)
Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 12/30/2008)
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Paperback
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: This new edition explores a wide variety of cultural issues worldwide that affect aging issues, from perception and valuation of the elderly to aspects including homelessness, caregiving, assisted suicide, psychological support and responses to those with dementia. This volume includes special student resources, data from the most recent studies, a guide to Internet sites, and a bibliography of related readings. Especially accessible to students across majors from anthropology and psychology to social work, nursing, and medicine, this work fully updates and expands on the award-winning book, which drew the following praise from a gerontology journal: "I marvel at the extent to which Sokolovsky has made The Cultural Context of Aging user friendly." This edition includes 25 new chapters. The authors come from the fields of anthropology, sociology, gerontology, social work, psychology, psychiatry, and nursing. Through explorations of the experiences of real people, the contributors illuminate how elders actually live in such places as U.S. urban ethnic enclaves, rural Kenya, a South Seas island, urban China, or a New York City women's shelter. Dealing directly with key practical issues relevant to those seeking to pursue a career in the aging field, this volume covers: policy implications of demographic aging; culture and successful aging; culture and caregiving; gender and aging; grandparenthood and the crisis in urban families; informal social support; homelessness and aging; nursing homes and pet therapy; assisted suicide and "death hastening behavior"; the aging woman and widowhood; rural aging; self-help groups; and the cultural response to Alzheimer's disease. This essential text allows students to understand fully how culture can dictate what may appear to be "natural" responses to elders and aging.
LC Card Number: 2008027348
LCC Class: HQ1061
Dewey Class: 305
PDF Catalogs:
Academic Library Fall 2008.pdf
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