Understanding quality of life in old age
By: edited by Alan Walker.
Contributors: Walker, Alan, 1949-
Series: Growing older
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Maidenhead; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Older people -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.; Quality of life -- Great Britain.; Older people -- Services for.; Older people -- Care.; Quality of life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-201) and index.
Table of contents: value: Investigating quality of life in the Growing Older Programme / Alan Walker and Catherine Hagan Hennessy; value: Quality of life: meaning and measurement / Mary Gilhooly, Ken Gilhooly and Ann Bowling; value: Dimensions of the inequalities in quality of life in older age / Paul Higgs ... [et al.]; value: Getting out and about / Caroline Holland ... [et al.]; value: Family and economic roles / Lynda Clarke, Maria Evandrou and Peter Warr; value: Social involvement: aspects of gender and ethnicity / Kate Davidson, Lorna Warren and Mary Maynard; value: social isolation and loneliness / Christina Victor and Thomas Scharf; value: Frailty, identity and the quality of later life / Kevin McKee ... [et al.]; value: Identity, meaning and social support / Christopher McKevitt ... [et al.]; value: Elderly bereaved spouses: issues of belief, well-being and support / Peter Speck ... [et al.]; value: Conclusion: from research to action / Alan Walker.