Buch, Englisch
Buch, Englisch
Reihe: Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare
ISBN: 978-0-415-42643-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
This change in the nature of the world’s populations has profound health and social welfare consequences, not least because older people represent the major consumers of health and welfare services (in the UK, for example, it is estimated that 50% of public health expenditure is accounted for by those aged over 65). Against such a background, this new four-volume title in the Routledge Major Works series, Major Themes in Health and Social Welfare, answers the need for a collection of canonical and the best cutting-edge research on the health and social-care needs of older people.
Caring for the elderly is a vibrant and dynamic area of study and research, and the sheer scale of the growth in its output makes this collection especially timely. Furthermore, the highest quality work in the broad field of health and social welfare for older people has emanated from a wide range of different academic disciplines and professional groups, and has been published in a variety of largely specialist journals. Caring for the Elderly makes available the best scholarship from these disparate, and sometimes less accessible sources, as well as from the leading UK, European, and North American health and social-care journals, and from other publications, some of which are no longer in print.
Caring for the Elderly embraces a diversity of bio-medical, social, psychological and policy perspectives and Volume One collects the best research on the health status of older people. Volume Two examines the issues and controversies around the mental health and psychological well-being of the elderly, while VolumeThree explores health care and health policies for an ageing population. Volume Four brings together work on the social-care responses to population ageing, including the challenges and prospects for community care and the role of informal care.
With comprehensive introductions to each volume, newly written by the editor, which place the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Caring for the Elderly is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars, students and practitioners as a vital research resource.