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Successful ageing : ambition and ambivalence / Clemens Tesch-RoÌmer, Hans-Werner Wahl ; with Suresh I. S. Rattan, Liat Ayalon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tesch-RoÌmer, Clemens, author.
- Wahl, Hans-Werner, 1954- author.
- Rattan, Suresh I. S., author.
- Ayalon, Liat, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gerontology.
- Geriatrics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Geriatrics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (109 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
- Contents:
- I. Conceptions of successful ageing. 1. History of successful ageing ; 2. Biological perspectives on successful ageing / Suresh I. S. Rattan ; 3 . A taxonomy of successful ageing conceptions
- II. Strategies for successful ageing: From the micro to the macro level. 4. Individual strategies for successful ageing ; 5. Physical-spatial-technological environments and successful ageing ; 6. Social bonds, care, and successful ageing ; 7. Social inequality, the welfare state, and successful ageing
- III. Ambivalences and ambitions of successful ageing. 8. Successful ageing and ageism: A bidirectional model of influence / Liat Ayalon ; 9. Towards a new narrative on successful ageing.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-106) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780191923968 (electronic bk.)
- 0191923966 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 99994662655
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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