Celebrating Age
Avebury (Publisher)
Published on 23. January 1996
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-1-85628-589-6 (ISBN)
Description
This text presents the proceedings of a meeting at the University of Ulster in June 1993. It covers topics such as: the health and social needs of older people; health promotion and older people; empowering elderly people; and creative genius in old age.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 159 mm
Width: 224 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85628-589-6 (9781856285896)
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Content
The health and social needs of older people in the 90s - politics and policies, The Baroness Cox of Queensbury; an ageing population - social and economic issues, Alan Walker; health promotion and older people, Dr Jane Wilde; meeting the challenge - the pensioner's view, Jack Jones; empowering elderly people, Terry Bamford; creative genius in old age, Tom Dormandy; older people and society - integration or marginalization?, Irvine Lavery; do older people have special nutritional needs?, Andrew Prentice; why and how do we age?, Dr Yvonne Barnett; why it's never too late to exercise, Dr Barbara Livingstone; practical implications of nutrition for residential and nursing homes, Jill Eaton-Evans; health and wellbeing amongst peers, Vera Ivers; rural action on dementia project, Anne O'Reilly; the voices of older people, Avril Osborne; assessment of health and social care needs of people aged 75 and over, Margaret Bamford; common concerns in housing older Europeans, Nigel Appleton; older people volunteering, Ann Sweeney; older people and the built environment, Ken Ewart and Professor Tom Wooley; talking about our generations, Paul Nolan; developing a campaigning methodology in work with older people - the work of the action age project, Sharon Sinclair; life history and creative writing - computers and older people, Gerry McAuley.