New PDF release: Ageing in Australia: Challenges and Opportunities

By Kate O'Loughlin,Colette Browning,Hal Kendig

This stimulating quantity examines the numerous faces of Australia’s growing old inhabitants, the social and future health concerns they take care of, and the stairs being taken—and many who might be taken—to aid be certain a extra optimistic and efficient later existence. person and societal ageing are conceptualized as developmental in nature, socially diversified, and marked by means of lifestyle demanding situations stemming from the country’s monetary constructions, attitudes, geography, political panorama, and infrastructure. Wide-ranging assurance (e.g., well-being, inequalities, employment, transportation) assesses concepts to be had to older humans, and the function of households, employers, carrier prone, govt firms, and others in selling or increasing these offerings. The book’s double emphasis on demanding situations in older people’s lives and possibilities for boosting their caliber of existence is on transparent exhibit as case reviews research coverage issues—and suggest solutions—in a societal and person context.

Included within the coverage:

· Australian advancements in getting older: concerns and history.

· Cultural range, future health, and ageing.

· Indigenous Australians and growing older: responding to range in coverage and practice.

· bettering the healthiness and employment participation of older workers.

· Housing and the environments of ageing.

· healthiness prone and deal with older people.

The wealthy examples in Ageing in Australia contain a intensity of realizing and proof for sociologists, gerontologists and psychologists learning getting old, healthiness care execs delivering care to older humans, and coverage analysts assessing components for improvement.

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