Research Catalog

Title

Key concepts in social gerontology / Judith Phillips, Kristine Ajrouch, and Sarah Hillcoat-Nallétamby.

Author

Phillips, Judith (Judith E.)

Publication

Los Angeles : SAGE, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ajrouch, Kristine J.
• Hillcoat-Nallétamby, Sarah.

Description

vii, 240 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

This text provides an accessible guide to well established and contested issues, as well as new concepts emerging through cutting edge research in social gernontology. The entries give concise, lucid knowledge on what constitutes the 'building blocks' of social gerontology and sets out a clear review of the core concepts.

Series Statement

SAGE key concepts

Uniform Title

SAGE key concepts.

Alternative Title

Social gerontology

Subject

Social gerontology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-231) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Advocacy ; Age Integration ; Ageing ; Ageing in Place ; Ageism ; Ambivalence ; Assisted Living -- Bereavement ; Biographical Approaches -- Care ; Care Management ; Civic Engagement ; Cohort ; Convoy Theory ; Cultural Ideals -- Death and Dying ; Dementia ; Disability -- Elder Mistreatment-Abuse ; Environmental Gerontology ; Ethnicity ; Euthanasia -- Family Relations ; Filial Responsibility ; Frailty -- Gender ; Generations ; Gerontology ; Global Ageing -- Housing -- Independence ; Intergenerational Practice -- Life Course Perspective ; Lifelong Learning ; Loneliness ; Long Term Care ; Longevity -- Palliative Care ; Pensions ; Population Ageing -- Quality of Life Religion-Spirituality ; Retirement -- Social Exclusion ; Social Relations ; Social Support ; Social Theories of Ageing ; Successful Ageing -- Third and Fourth Ages ; Triple Jeopardy.

ISBN

• 9781412922715
• 1412922712
• 9781412922722 (pbk.)
• 1412922720 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009929965

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library