Gerontology

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Did You Just Call Me Old Lady?

Did You Just Call Me Old Lady?

A 90-Year-Old Tells Why Aging Is Positive

Did You Just Call Me Old Lady? is an upbeat look at aging and the impacts of Canada’s increasingly aged population through the eyes of a ninety-year-old woman. Far from seeing older … 116 View
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Drug and Opioid Deaths in Canada

Drug and Opioid Deaths in Canada

From: Social Perspectives on Death and Dying

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Epilogue
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Epilogue

From: Happily Ever Older

Readings in this text explore a variety of case studies from around the world of approaches to long-term care. 8 $0.80 Add
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Farmland as a New Asset Class

Farmland as a New Asset Class

From: Speculative Harvests Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies

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Feeding Finance From Farm to Plate

Feeding Finance From Farm to Plate

From: Speculative Harvests Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies

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Foreword

Foreword

From: The Accidental Caregiver

The foreword to The Accidental Caregiver, written by Dr. T. Jock Murray of Dalhousie University, examines the unprepared nature of family caregiving and the isolation it produces. 4 $0.40 Add
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From the Fountain of Youth to Methuselah

From the Fountain of Youth to Methuselah

From: Did You Just Call Me Old Lady?

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From the Inside Looking Out

From the Inside Looking Out

Competing Ideas about Growing Old 2nd Edition

In From The Inside Looking Out, Auger, Tedford-Litle and Wallace-Allen seek to overcome the “us” and “them” dichotomy that characterizes much of the literature on aging. … ; ; 219 View
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Hannah

Hannah

From: Hope Is a Woman's Name

In this chapter, Alh’jooj discuses her experience at a nursing home in Omer, Israel, where she met Hannah, an eighty-six-year-old Holocaust survivor. 7 $0.70 Add
Happily Ever Older

Happily Ever Older

Revolutionary Approaches to Long-Term Care

While Being Mortal (Atul Gawande) helped us understand disease and death, and Successful Aging (Daniel J. Levitin) showed us older years can be a time of joy and resilience, Happily Ever Older … 253 View
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Historical Attitudes Towards Death and Dying

Historical Attitudes Towards Death and Dying

From: Social Perspectives on Death and Dying

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HIV/AIDS as a Sociological Issue

HIV/AIDS as a Sociological Issue

From: Social Perspectives on Death and Dying

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Hospice and Palliative Care

Hospice and Palliative Care

From: Social Perspectives on Death and Dying

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Hungry for Possibilities

Hungry for Possibilities

Too Many Beloved Dead, Too Few Elders

From: The Care We Dream Of

In this essay, the author details her dreams of something different. These dreams are not just for herself, but for every queer and trans person lucky enough to get old, for the communities she … 25 $2.50 Add
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Income, Education and Work

Income, Education and Work

From: About Canada: Health & Illness 2nd Edition

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Introduction

Introduction

From: Did You Just Call Me Old Lady?

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