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 |
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269 | |
Back cover | 274 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ability able achieved affect aged 65 areas associated baseline better Bowling changes Chapter characteristics circumstances compared comparisons consistent contacts dependent difficulties enjoy et al example expectations facilities factors feel felt friends functioning giving groups half happiness higher important improved in-depth income increasing independence indicators individual influence interview less living look loss lower maintaining measures mental mentioned neighbourhood older age one’s overall participation pensions people’s perceived perceptions physical poor positive problems psychological QoL ratings questions rated reflect relation relatives reported respectively respondents retirement roles satisfaction scales score self-efficacy shows significant social activities social capital social comparisons society socioeconomic status studies subjective survey theme theory things tion transport values variables walk well-being women worse younger
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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?