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What is distinct about the last third of life, about women, that makes psychotherapy different? In this diverse collection, the psychological meanings and challenges of the last third of life are explored, as the capacity of the psyche expands, sense of time changes, and some questions take on new...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Social Welfare
Demographic and epidemiological changes mean that frail older people have come to be seen as an expensive problem for health care systems. The challenge for professionals and policy-makers is to find ways to respond to the coming crisis by delivering high-quality care in the home. This collection...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Female Celebrity and Ageing: Back in the Spotlight interrogates the myriad ways in which celebrity culture constructs highly visible ideologies of femininity and ageing, and how ageing female celebrities have negotiated the media in a variety of industrial, historical and national contexts. In the...
To Be Published July 15th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
This essay collection develops new perspectives on constructions of old age in literary, legal, scientific and periodical cultures of the nineteenth century. Rigorously interdisciplinary, the book places leading researchers of old age in nineteenth-century literature in dialogue with experts from...
To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies
The distinguishing feature for many workers in South Korea is contractual – and often involuntary – retirement at a young age (mid-50s for most workers) followed by precarious and low-paying self-employment or contract work. In the past this practice, which is also found in other East Asian nations...
To Be Published August 1st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
The demographic phenomena of increased life expectancy, increasing global population of older adults, and a larger number of older people as a proportion of the total population in nations throughout the world will affect our lives and the life of each person we know. The changes will result in...
To Be Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge
This book looks at the historical background to the law's approach to ageing, focusing on questions such as: Has the law promoted ageism? How well has the law protected older people against discrimination, abuse and social exclusion? How effective will new prohibitions on age...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Social Welfare in Asia
East Asian societies are changing fast and one of the most important aspects of societal change is the aging of society. 'Active aging' is one of the few concepts available today to effectively address the problems arising from a highly-aged and, particularly in East Asia, fast-aging society,...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Japan is the first Asian country to become a mature industrial society. Throughout the 1970s and the 1980s, Japan was viewed as an all-middle-class society, however, more recently, the issues of poverty and inequality have been actively discussed in Japan, particularly since the late 1990s. This...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Human Resource Development
Bridge Employment refers to the diverse forms of older workers' participation in the labour market that occurs between their retirement and their complete workforce withdrawal. Research over the last decade reveals that the long-term trend toward earlier retirement has slowed or reversed and the...
To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
