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Heumann and Boldy define and analyze emerging programs to help the frail and low-income elderly stay out of institutions and age in place in their communities with proper support systems.

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This book explores how the forces of development have shaped the experience of aging in countries in the global south. It points to the challenges and opportunities that lie in developing innovative, sustainable programs to support elderly care services.

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With the impending retirement of some 76 million Baby Boomers, understanding the various issues related to the aging population is paramount. The author's agree that there is considerable cause for concern, but with a variety of policies in place and smart individual choices, the elderly can prosper, and a demographic tsunami is not inevitable.

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The 500 entries are arranged alphabetically by author under nine topics: physical aging, psychological aging, social aging, family, living arrangements, work and economics, education and leisure, politics, and religion.

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Explains the physiological realities of aging and guides readers in taking positive steps to retain health, dignity, and vitality through their later years. This book includes strategies to optimize self-esteem as well as health, including attention to nutrition, exercise, health care, education and mind stimulation, and sexuality.

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The text includes strategies to optimize self-esteem as well as health, including attention to nurtrition, exercise, health care, education and mind stimulation, sexuality, social activities, and cosmetics and cosmetic surgery.

Readers are shown the physiological facts of aging, from cellular to systemic changes.

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In both societies, support for the elderly comes from formal institutional programs as well as informal family arrangements, and it seems equally true in both cases that the elderly get most of their support through kinship assistance.

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Renowned psychic Joan Charles reveals stories from her twenty-five years as a spiritual communicator. Looking in detail at the amazing psychic abilities of children, both passed and on this plane, Joan shares tales of love and loss, and secrets and lies, which go far beyond our Earthly experience.

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While the lives of children were generally included in historical narratives of the country, a focus specifically on children allows the reader to more fully understand the central place of family in the economic and social development of a nation.

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From the award-winning creator of the Baby Prodigy DVDs and CDs comes a practical guide for parents who want to encourage intellectual growth from the beginning of their baby's life.

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The best-selling author of Flow and an award-winning sociologist draw on a unique longitudinal study to reveal how adolescents develop attitudes, skills, and expectations about their adult careers.

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This workexamines how preschool teachers construct the preschool teacher identity through everyday practices of teaching and caring. Pruit's analysis of preschool teachers' talk and interaction addresses pertinent sociological and early childhood education themes, including classroom management, social control, emotions, and identity construction.

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Dr. Victor Cogen focuses his unique vision on inspiring normal, healthy teenagers who just aren't working up to their potential. He offers a comprehensive program for parents to help turn around their teenager's academic performance.

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Given the events of recent times, Weaver also shifts from examining how Soviet young people learned communism to considering how they unlearn communism.

Her first-hand account is based on her travels and her study in the Soviet Union and in Russia and the other fourteen republics.

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Successful survivors speak for themselves in this exhaustive study of the lives, attitudes, and lifestyles of more than 500 centenarians. Beard's insights regarding the personal characteristics and principles by which centenarians live contain some unexpected findings in the areas of social relationships and social environments.

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In this pioneering and important book, Philippe Aries surveys children and their place in family life from the Middle Ages to the end of the eighteenth century.

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Heading to school for her very first day, Charlie Mae knows she will seem much different from the other kids. Hopeful they will notice she's not so different after all, will Charlie make new friends Will her classmates be kind even though she seems different Let's find out!

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This engagingly written compendium is packed with humorous, dramatic, surprising, and inspiring facts about the past, present, and future of children and childhood.

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Explores everyday childhood in relation to employment, religion, policing, war and migration, drawing on children's experiences in a variety of contexts and countries.

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This topical book comprehensively draws together diverse perspectives from key leaders in the field to address critical issues for children in relation to their rights, welfare and protection at a critical time in Ireland. -- .

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According to Linn, corporate marketing has become a societal problem as complex and harmful as racism or pollution, and is so pervasive that it should be tackled by public policy rather than leaving things solely to beleaguered parents.