Human ageing and later life
Subtitle: multidisciplinary perspectives
By: edited by Anthony M. Warnes.
Contributors: Warnes, A. M.; Age Concern Institute of Gerontology.
Series: Research studies in gerontology; Research studies in gerontology
Publisher: Edward Arnold
Published: 1989
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Aging.; Aging -- Social aspects.; Aging -- Physiological aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Pt. 1. Ageing processes: 1. Basic biological aspects of ageing / Alan Hipkiss and Alan Bittles. 2. The production and removal of abnormal proteins: a key question in the biology of ageing / Alan Hipkiss. 3. The role of mitochondria in cellular ageing / Alan Bittles. 4. Eyes and age / Robert Weale. 5. The ageing of populations / Anthony Warnes; value: Pt. 2. Ageing and elderly people in society: 6. Ageing and social policy: a twentieth century dilemma / Andrew Blaikie and John Macnicol. 7. Successful ageing and life course reciprocity / Toni Antonucci and James Jackson. 8. Living arrangements and social support in later life / Emily Grundy. 9. The need for support / Janet Askham. 10. Planning health care: the community approach / James McEwen. 11. Health care of the elderly: the concept of progress. 12. Key issues in nursing elderly people / Sally Redfern; value: Pt. 3. Prospects: third age lives in the next generation: 13. "Third Age" lives in the next generation: changing attitudes and expectations / Mark Abrams. 14. Education and later life / Brian Groombridge. 15. Responding to the challenge of ageing / Anthony Warnes.