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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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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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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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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.

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In this study, chapter authors examine the growth of gerontology as a discipline, the phenomenon of ageism as a socio-cultural concept, identity politics in which older persons are perceived as belonging to a subculture, and images of the older body in cultural perspective.

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The countries selected represent a wide range of social, political, geographic, and economic conditions, and ten new countries are included in this edition.

Each chapter provides current information on the unique features of the country profiled;

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Presents the author's journey into youth culture, meeting and speaking to hundreds of kids on the way. This work gives an insight into understanding a generation gap that has never been so wide. Confronting crime, underage sex, and more, he finds that this disconnection from what adults understand to be real is creating a radical youth culture.

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This book examines claims that aging populations will create serious economic problems for various nations.

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A review of risk instruments used in adult protective services and non-adult protective services settings forms the basis of chapter five, and chapter six outlines a proposed risk assessment model, specially designed for elder-serving human service professionals.

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An analysis of provider-, environment-, client- and societal-based obstacles to the empowerment of frail elderly persons in a philosophical framework of social values. It features international case studies which provide examples of the feasibility of achieving real empowerment.