Both climate change and challenges of population aging are each global issues that have reached a truly critical phase that their respective saw coming.
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IAGG 2017- Global Aging and Health: Bridging Science, Policy, and Practice
by Arianna Poliby Arianna PoliIAGG highlighted the need for the provision of care, caregivers’ and families’ wellbeing, promoting social justice, equality & capitalizing on technologies.
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Shifting from being “all right” to “better than all right” may help funding mechanisms rethink how they value and measure ability in dementia
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Sexual dysfunctions can even lead to rediscovery of one’s sexuality that help rethink the ways older people express their intimacies.
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Curling’s new style risks devaluing the alternative masculine styles, often embodied by those in later life; something that curling previously celebrated.
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Aging and the military veteran offender by Jason Powell and Paul Taylor
by adminby adminWritten by: Jason Powell and Paul Taylor September 1st, 2017 In our current writing and research, we are seeking to develop a critical understanding of the inter-relationship between aging and …
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Gerotech influences how people live and are supported and if we want to offer valuable insight and analysis it’s important that we ask them what they think.
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“Incitement” gets published in an oh-so-reasonable tone, not by teenagers but by important writers with total impunity when older people are the focus.
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British Society of Gerontology (BSG) 2017: Do Not Go Gentle – Gerontology and a Good Old Age
This year’s programme ranged from health, social care ,participation and inclusion, cultural gerontology, arts, and environments of ageing.
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Guardianship of the Infantilized Elder: A Pipeline to the Institution Industrial Complex?
The very body of vulnerable elders becomes a commodity in an institution industrial complex with an emphasis on profit making and social control.