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Author : Alfred De Souza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Aged
ISBN : UVA:X001594519
In the Indian context.
Author : Paramjeet Kaur Dhillon
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8170224268
Author : Lawrence Cohen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780520224629
Links an investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the Indian city of Varanasi (Banaras) with events and processes around India and around the world.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences,Board on Health Sciences Policy,Committee on the Health and Medical Dimensions of Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309671033
Social isolation and loneliness are serious yet underappreciated public health risks that affect a significant portion of the older adult population. Approximately one-quarter of community-dwelling Americans aged 65 and older are considered to be socially isolated, and a significant proportion of adults in the United States report feeling lonely. People who are 50 years of age or older are more likely to experience many of the risk factors that can cause or exacerbate social isolation or loneliness, such as living alone, the loss of family or friends, chronic illness, and sensory impairments. Over a life course, social isolation and loneliness may be episodic or chronic, depending upon an individual's circumstances and perceptions. A substantial body of evidence demonstrates that social isolation presents a major risk for premature mortality, comparable to other risk factors such as high blood pressure, smoking, or obesity. As older adults are particularly high-volume and high-frequency users of the health care system, there is an opportunity for health care professionals to identify, prevent, and mitigate the adverse health impacts of social isolation and loneliness in older adults. Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults summarizes the evidence base and explores how social isolation and loneliness affect health and quality of life in adults aged 50 and older, particularly among low income, underserved, and vulnerable populations. This report makes recommendations specifically for clinical settings of health care to identify those who suffer the resultant negative health impacts of social isolation and loneliness and target interventions to improve their social conditions. Social Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults considers clinical tools and methodologies, better education and training for the health care workforce, and dissemination and implementation that will be important for translating research into practice, especially as the evidence base for effective interventions continues to flourish.
Author : Panel on New Directions in Social Demography, Social Epidemiology, and the Sociology of Aging,Committee on Population
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309292972
The aging of the population of the United States is occurring at a time of major economic and social changes. These economic changes include consideration of increases in the age of eligibility for Social Security and Medicare and possible changes in benefit levels. Furthermore, changes in the social context in which older individuals and families function may well affect the nature of key social relationships and institutions that define the environment for older persons. Sociology offers a knowledge base, a number of useful analytic approaches and tools, and unique theoretical perspectives that can facilitate understanding of these demographic, economic, and social changes and, to the extent possible, their causes, consequences and implications. The Future of the Sociology of Aging: An Agenda for Action evaluates the recent contributions of social demography, social epidemiology and sociology to the study of aging and identifies promising new research directions in these sub-fields. Included in this study are nine papers prepared by experts in sociology, demography, social genomics, public health, and other fields, that highlight the broad array of tools and perspectives that can provide the basis for further advancing the understanding of aging processes in ways that can inform policy. This report discusses the role of sociology in what is a wide-ranging and diverse field of study; a proposed three-dimensional conceptual model for studying social processes in aging over the life cycle; a review of existing databases, data needs and opportunities, primarily in the area of measurement of interhousehold and intergenerational transmission of resources, biomarkers and biosocial interactions; and a summary of roadblocks and bridges to transdisciplinary research that will affect the future directions of the field of sociology of aging.
Author : Seethapapanagari Vijaya Kumar,S. Vijaya Kumar
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8185880875
Gerontology is a new field of research attracting the attention of social scientists, planners, policy makers, administrators, and non-governmental agencies all over the world. The aim behind this volume is to share valuable experiences and research findings of the experts at this volume focuses at the most fundamental issues of gerontology. This work will certainly be useful to the policy makers, administrators, academicians and scholars of this specialized field working in India and other countries of the world.
Author : A. K. Lal
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Affirmative action programs
ISBN : 8170229332
Contributed seminar articles with reference to India.
Author : K. Pappathi
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Aging
ISBN : 813130048X
Human life, in all stages, is blessed with growth, and development. Ageing is one of the significant stages of this process. It is a universal phenomenon applicable to all living organisms. The United Nations declared, the year 1999 as 'International Year of Older Persons'. It focused on Towards a society for all ages' where young and old get mutual help in bringing equal social order of the society. Hence, India formulated, the National Policy on Older Persons in 1999 aiming to provide a happy ageing atmosphere.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Birth control
ISBN : UCR:31210024957373
Author : Wolfgang Behn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789047413905
This first of the ultimately three-volume Who’s Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia. Taking as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus, the author, Wolfgang Behn (Berlin), has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user to quickly gain knowledge on the life, work, and professional background of almost every major and minor author, and thus to place each author in his/her proper perspective. A tremendous achievement and a true must for every library.
Author : Kieran Walsh,Thomas Scharf,Sofie Van Regenmortel,Anna Wanka
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030514068
Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of each exclusion domain. The book also examines the interrelationships between different forms of exclusion, and how outcomes and processes of different kinds of exclusion can be related to one another. In doing so, major cross-cutting themes, such as rights and identity, inclusive service infrastructures, and displacement of marginalised older adult groups, are considered. Finally, in a series of chapters written by international policy stakeholders and policy researchers, the book analyses key policies relevant to social exclusion and older people, including debates linked to sustainable development, EU policy and social rights, welfare and pensions systems, and planning and development. The book’s approach helps to illuminate the comprehensive multidimensionality of social exclusion, and provides insight into the relative nature of disadvantage in later life. With 77 contributors working across 28 nations, the book presents a forward-looking research agenda for social exclusion amongst older people, and will be an important resource for students, researchers and policy stakeholders working on ageing.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015075989247
Author : Sarah Lamb
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520935266
This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open up new ways of thinking about South Asian social life, but also to contribute to contemporary theories of gender, the body, and culture, which have been hampered, the book argues, by a static focus on youth. Lamb's own experiences in the village are an integral part of her book and ably convey the cultural particularities of rural Bengali life and Bengali notions of modernity. In exploring ideals of family life and the intricate interrelationships between and within generations, she enables us to understand how people in the village construct, and deconstruct, their lives. At the same time her study extends beyond India to contemporary attitudes about aging in the United States. This accessible and engaging book is about deeply human issues and will appeal not only to specialists in South Asian culture, but to anyone interested in families, aging, gender, religion, and the body.
Author : P. Lloyd-Sherlock
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-07-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230375475
Many countries in the developing world are facing a rapid acceleration in population ageing. To date, this problem has generated little interest either from academics or policy-makers. Studies which focus exclusively on social security are of little relevance for the majority of elderly in these regions, for whom the possibilities of saving or making pension contributions are remote. This book takes a more comprehensive approach, combining analysis of social security issues in all developing countries with micro-level case studies of poor urban elderly survival strategies in Buenos Aires.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015079904630
