Growing older
Subtitle: quality of life in old age
By: edited by Alan Walker and Catherine Hagan Hennessy
Contributors: Walker, Alan; Hennessy, Catherine Hagan, 1952-; ESRC Growing Older Programme
Series: Growing older
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Maidenhead, Berkshire, England; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: Older people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions; Quality of life -- Great Britain
Other titles: Quality of life in old age
Description: Annotation.
Notes: "This volume introduces the work of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded Growing Older programme ..."--P. [4] of cover

Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-259) and index
Table of contents: title: Introducing the Growing Older Programme on extending quality of life / Alan Walker; title: Quality of life in old age from the perspectives of older people / Zahava Gabriel and Ann Bowling; title: Ethnic inequalities / James Nazroo ... [et al.]; title: Environment, identity and old age : quality of life or a life of quality? / Leonie Kellaher, Sheila M. Peace and Caroline Holland; title: Poverty and social exclusion : growing older in deprived urban neighbourhoods / Thomas Scharf, Chris Phillipson and Allison E. Smith; title: Loneliness in later life / Christina R. Victor ... [et al.]; title: Older men : their health behaviours and partnership status / Kate Davidson and Sara Arber; title: A participatory approach to older women's quality of life / Joanne Cook, Tony Maltby and Lorna Warren; title: Social support and ethnicity in old age / Jabeer Butt and Jo Moriarty; title: The meaning of grandparenthood and its contribution to the quality of life of older people / Lynda Clarke and Ceridwen Roberts; title: Frailty and institutional life / Susan Tester ... [et al.]; title: Conclusion / Catherine Hagan Hennessy