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Title:

Growing older : quality of life in old age / edited by Alan Walker and Catherine Hagan Hennessy.

Publisher:

Open University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

x, 268 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Older people--Great Britain--Social conditions.
Quality of life--Great Britain.

Other Authors:

Walker, Alan.
Hennessy, Catherine Hagan, 1952-
ESRC Growing Older Programme.

Notes:

"This volume introduces the work of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded Growing Older programme ..."--P. [4] of cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Growing older

ISBN:

9780335215089 (hbk.)
0335215084 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56661119

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)