Readings in the Political Economy of Aging (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)

Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Minkler, Meredith

Estes, Carroll

Mental Health

Routledge

Meredith Minkler and Nina Wallerstein have brought together, in one important volume, a stellar panel of contributors who offer a comprehensive resource on the theory and application of community based participatory research. Community Based Participatory Research for Health contains information on a wide variety of topics including planning and conducting research, working with communities, promoting social change, and core research methods. The book also contains a helpful appendix of tools, guides, checklists, sample protocols, and much more.

Community-Based Participatory Research for Health

Medical Books

Wallerstein, Nina

Hall, Budd

Administration & Medicine Economics

Jossey-Bass

Grandmothers as Caregivers: Raising Children of the Crack Cocaine Epidemic (Family Caregiver Applications series)

Based on the first major study of black grandmothers who, as a consequence of the cocaine epidemic, raise young grandchildren, this volume examines: the social and cultural contexts within which grandparent caregiving takes place; the roles and responsibilities of grandparents; how the role of caregiver changes their lives; the cost of caregiving in terms of health, economics and employment; and the role of social support networks.

Politics & Social Sciences

Roe, Kathleen M.

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

Based on the first major study of black grandmothers who, as a consequence of the cocaine epidemic, raise young grandchildren, this volume examines: the social and cultural contexts within which grandparent caregiving takes place; the roles and responsibilities of grandparents; how the role of caregiver changes their lives; the cost of caregiving in terms of health, economics and employment; and the role of social support networks.

Includes 16 essays which address many issues from a different perspective suggested by the experience of aging in America. This study explores the political, social, and economic realities which have an impact on Americans as they grow older.

Critical Perspectives on Aging: The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)

This unique volume brings together 20 critical essays on aging within the context of the broad social, political, and economic factors that help shape and determine the realities of growing old. Rather than viewing aging in isolation, it explores the social creation of old age dependency and the profound influence of race, gender, and social class on what it means to grow old. It looks too at such topics as the "biomedicalization" of aging; the role of business and the media in changing societal images of the old; the fact and fiction behind "senior power"; the multibillion dollar nursing home industry; and the role of advanced capitalist nations in creating economic dependency among elders in the Third World.

Business & Money

Personal Finance

This refreshing book uses broad political and moral economy perspectives to explore the intersections of race, class, gender and aging and how these help determine the experience of aging and growing old. The twenty chapter volume includes new contributions by many of the top names in critical gerontology. Both political and economic factors, and those shared norms about fairness and obligation that help shape our aging policies, are examined in relation to a wide range of contemporary issues in gerontology.

Critical Gerontology: Perspectives from Political and Moral Economy (Policy, Politics, Health, & Medicine Series)

Estes, Carroll L.

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Readings in the Political Economy of Aging (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)

Community-Based Participatory Research for Health

Grandmothers as Caregivers: Raising Children of the Crack Cocaine Epidemic (Family Caregiver Applications series)

Grandmothers as Caregivers: Raising Children of the Crack Cocaine Epidemic (Family Caregiver Applications series)

Readings in the Political Economy of Aging (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)

Critical Perspectives on Aging: The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)

Critical Perspectives on Aging: The Political and Moral Economy of Growing Old (Policy, Politics, Health and Medicine Series)

Critical Gerontology: Perspectives from Political and Moral Economy (Policy, Politics, Health, & Medicine Series)