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• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company; Rev Exp edition (October 15, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761134263
• ISBN-13: 978-0761134268
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 1.6 inches
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How to Care for Aging Parents (Paperback)

Product Description: This groundbreaking text is the first to take a life course perspective, examining the relationship between the quality of one's life in old age and one’s experiences, earlier choices, opportunities, and constraints. The text gives students a broad background for understanding current policy debates through a distinctive chapter entitled "Old Age and the Welfare State" (Chapter 11) and through boxed essays in every chapter called "An Issue for Public Policy." Each chapter also includes a box called "In Their Own Words" that allows older people to describe their own experiences. In addition, coverage of race, class, gender, and culture is integrated throughout and featured in the "Diversity in the Aging Experience" sections.

• Hardcover: 540 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 4 edition (January 4, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0073528161
• ISBN-13: 978-0073528168
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 1 inches
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Aging and The Life Course: An Introduction to Social Gerontology (Hardcover)

Product Description: When Jimmy Carter left the White House in 1981, he and his wife, Rosalynn, had to face the same questions many elder Americans encounter when retirement approaches: "How could we accommodate the unpleasant circumstances that had been forced on us? What were our assets and abilities? What were the dependable factors in a good life, and how could we recognize and develop them? Was it at all possible for us to be as satisfied in the future as we had been during some of our most interesting, adventurous, and successful times? Did we have anything much to offer in the years ahead?" In the years since, both Carters have become internationally recognized for their work as authors, teachers, and humanitarians, but as Carter amiably insists in The Virtues of Aging, you don't need to be a former president (or first lady) to make a difference in your life and the lives of others.

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Ballantine Books (October 13, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0345425928
• ISBN-13: 978-0345425928
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The Virtues of Aging (Library of Contemporary Thought) (Paperback)

Product Description: With specific tools unavailable anywhere else, here is an all-new individualized blood-type-specific plan to gain control over the signs and symptoms of aging. Includes ways to fight brain decline, cognitive impairment, hormonal deficiency, and loss of vitality.

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Berkley (January 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425213412
• ISBN-13: 978-0425213414
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Aging: Fight it with the Blood Type Diet: The Individualized Plan for Preventing and Treating BrainImpairment, Hormonal Deficiency, and the Loss of VitalityAssociated with Advancing Years (Paperback)

Aging, Fifth Edition embraces current controversies in ageing and asks the reader to become involved in the major ageing issues that, as a society, we are struggling with and to take an informed stand.

The book shows the close link between concepts and controversies in the broad areas of ageing: health care, socioeconomic trends and the life course.

• Paperback: 504 pages
• Publisher: Pine Forge Press; Fifth Edition edition (January 13, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1412915201
• ISBN-13: 978-1412915205
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Aging: Concepts and Controversies (Paperback)