The New Dynamics of Ageing Volume 2 / / ed. by Alan Walker.

This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 1, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews of the very latest research on ageing. Together they report the outcomes of the most concerted investigation ever undertaken into both the influence shaping the changing nature of a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol UP/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:The New Dynamics of Ageing
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • List of tables and figures
  • List of contributors
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Autonomy and independence in later life
  • Sleep and autonomy in later life: the SomnIA project
  • Negotiating unfamiliar environments
  • Financial elder abuse
  • Maintaining dignity and independence
  • Families and caring in South Asian communities
  • Biological perspectives
  • Understanding immunesenescence
  • Towards understanding the biological drivers of cell ageing
  • Nutrition in later life
  • NANA: a tale of ageing and technology
  • Combating malnutrition in hospitals
  • Migration and nutrition
  • Representations of old age
  • Representing self – representing ageing
  • Ageing, fiction, narrative exchange and everyday life
  • Narrative representations of the self: encounters with contemporary visual art
  • The place of theatre in representations of ageing
  • Conclusion
  • Index