Ageing WellMcGraw-Hill Education (UK), 16.10.2005 - 288 Seiten
Ageing Well is key reading for students, academics, practitioners and policy makers who are concerned with the research and practice that will help to improve quality of life for older people. |
Inhalt
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aims methodsmeasures sampleresponse rates | 44 |
Chapter 03 What adds quality to life and what takes it away? | 68 |
Chapter 04 Social relationships and activities | 91 |
Chapter 05 Health and functioning | 118 |
Chapter 06 Psychological outlook | 136 |
home and neighbourhood | 157 |
Chapter 08 Financial circumstances and having enough money | 174 |
Chapter 09 Independence and freedom | 188 |
Chapter 10 Life 18 months later | 200 |
Glossary | 230 |
| 234 | |
| 269 | |
Back cover | 274 |
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 1 - When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things.
Seite vi - I enjoy talking to very old men, for they have gone before us, as it were, on a road that we too may have to tread, and it seems to me that we should find out from them what it is like and whether it is rough and difficult or broad and easy, You are now at an age when you are. as the poets say, about to cross the threshold, and I would like to find out how it strikes you and what you have to tell us. Is it a difficult time of life or not?