Health and Care in Ageing Societies : : A New International Approach / / Liz Lloyd.
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 offers such a challenge. It provides a critical analysis of the limitati...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Ageing and the Lifecourse
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Patterns and trends in ageing and health
- Understanding health and care
- The policy process in health and care
- Healthy ageing: upstream actions to prevent illness
- Medicine, ageing and healthcare
- Care for health in later life
- Conclusion
- References
- Index