Description
Ageing
Issues for Physical, Psychological, and Social Health
Coordinator: Woodrow Philip
Language: EnglishSubject for Ageing:
Keywords
healthcare; older people; people; process affects; ages; old people; scant attention; explores; process; key perspectives; old; synonymous; necessarily; age; complex; multifaceted; chronological; different; three; concept; perspectives
270 p. · 15.7x22.7 cm · Paperback
Description
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Introduction.
What is Ageing?
Theories of Biological ageing.
Skin.
Muscles & Bones.
The Cardiovascular System.
Other Main Body systems.
The Special Senses.
Normal Psychology and Ageing.
Abnormal Psychology and Ageing.
The Sociology of Later Life.
Ethical Aspects of Ageing.
Ageing in minority Ethinic Groups.
Attitudes of Professionals to Older People.
Living well in old Age.
Conclusions.
Glossary.
Philip Woodrow is the author of Ageing: Issues for Physical, Psychological, and Social Health, published by Wiley.