Growing older : quality of life in old age /
Contributor(s): Walker, Alan | Hennessy, Catherine Hagan | ESRC Growing Older Programme.
Series: Growing older.Publisher: Maidenhead, Berkshire ; New York : Open University Press, 2004Description: x, 268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0335215084 (hbk.); 9780335215089:; 0335215076 (pbk.).Subject(s): Older people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions | Older people -- Social conditions | Quality of life -- Great Britain | Quality of lifeDDC classification: 305.26Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 305.26 WAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0053106 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introducing the Growing Older Programme on extending quality of life / Alan Walker -- Quality of life in old age from the perspectives of older people / Zahava Gabriel and Ann Bowling -- Ethnic inequalities / James Nazroo ... [et al.] -- Environment, identity and old age : quality of life or a life of quality? / Leonie Kellaher, Sheila M. Peace and Caroline Holland -- Poverty and social exclusion : growing older in deprived urban neighbourhoods / Thomas Scharf, Chris Phillipson and Allison E. Smith -- Loneliness in later life / Christina R. Victor ... [et al.] -- Older men : their health behaviours and partnership status / Kate Davidson and Sara Arber -- A participatory approach to older women's quality of life / Joanne Cook, Tony Maltby and Lorna Warren -- Social support and ethnicity in old age / Jabeer Butt and Jo Moriarty -- The meaning of grandparenthood and its contribution to the quality of life of older people / Lynda Clarke and Ceridwen Roberts -- Frailty and institutional life / Susan Tester ... [et al.] -- Conclusion / Catherine Hagan Hennessy.
This volume focuses on ways in which quality of life can be improved for older people. It offers short research-based summaries of key findings on a variety of core topics such as ethnic inequalities, social exclusion, frailty and life in institutions, and loneliness.