Publisher's Synopsis
Giving a comprehensive overview of the discipline, this book is designed as a supplementary text for students of social gerontology and ageing policy. Highlighting policy implications, specialists consider issues such as: long term care; ways of measuring well-being; social relationships of the elderly; attitudes to retirement; health and crime.
@ ′the book does a good job in prompting deeper consideration of day-to-day issues about elderly people and points up many unexplored areas worthy of research.......This is a useful book, combining much of general interst for staff working with older people with clear and important messages for its target audience of researchers and policy theorists′ @ GPS 3:2
