Gerontology
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![]() 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 … | Lillian Zimmerman | 116 | 2016 | View |
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From ![]() Drug and Opioid Deaths in Canada |
Jeanette A. Auger | 13 | 2019 | $1.30 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! EpilogueFrom: Happily Ever Older |
Readings in this text explore a variety of case studies from around the world of approaches to long-term care. | Moira Welsh | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Farmland as a New Asset ClassFrom: Speculative Harvests Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies |
Jennifer Clapp; S. Ryan Isakson | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add | |
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From ![]() Feeding Finance From Farm to PlateFrom: Speculative Harvests Agrarian Change & Peasant Studies |
Jennifer Clapp; S. Ryan Isakson | 27 | 2018 | $2.70 Add | |
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From ![]() ForewordFrom: 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. | Kimberly Fraser | 4 | 2022 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() From the Fountain of Youth to Methuselah |
Lillian Zimmerman | 8 | 2016 | $0.80 Add | |
![]() From the Inside Looking OutCompeting 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. … | Brenda Wallace-Allen; Diane Tedford-Litle; Jeanette A. Auger | 219 | 2018 | View |
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From ![]() HannahFrom: 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. | Amal Elsana Alh'jooj | 7 | 2024 | $0.70 Add |
![]() Happily Ever OlderRevolutionary 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 … | Moira Welsh | 253 | 2021 | View |
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From ![]() Historical Attitudes Towards Death and Dying |
Jeanette A. Auger | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add | |
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From ![]() HIV/AIDS as a Sociological Issue |
Jeanette A. Auger | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add | |
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From ![]() Hospice and Palliative Care |
Jeanette A. Auger | 32 | 2019 | $3.20 Add | |
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From ![]() Hungry for PossibilitiesToo 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 … | Zena Sharman | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() Income, Education and Work |
Dennis Raphael | 25 | 2016 | $2.50 Add | |
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From ![]() Introduction |
Lillian Zimmerman | 9 | 2016 | $0.90 Add |












