Ageing : Recent Advances and Creative Responses (Paperback)

Preface.? 1. Introduction?A. Butler??Part One: The Overview? 2. Ageing ? Whose Creative Response?A. Tinker??3. The Ageing Class: Vanguard of the Evolution?E. Midwinter??Part Two: Leisure, Friendship and Association??4. Listening to the Voices of Older Women: Creativity and Social Work Responses?A. Froggatt??5. Voluntary Association and the Social Construction of Old Age?D. Jerrome? 6. Managing Everyday Life: The Trivial Round Made Significant?S.O. Daatland? 7. Constraints to Creativity: The Case of Leisure Facility Managers?M. Bernard? 8. The St John’s Senior Centre: A Creative Development?V. Ivers? 9. Intimacy at a Distance Under the Microscope?A. M. Warnes, D. Howes and L. Took??10. Leisure Activities in the Elderly in Urban Shopping Centres: A Case Study Analysis?M.J. MacLean, D. Brown and P. Sijpkes??Part Three: Aspects of Social Welfare??11. Short-Term Funded Projects: A Creative Response to an Ageing Population??A. Osborn? 12. Innovation in the Care of the Elderly: The Role of Joint Finance?E. Ferlie, D. Challis and B. Davies? 13. Welfare Benefits and the Elderly: Some Preliminary Results from the G.L.C. Take-up Campaign?C.R. Victor? 14. Sheltered Housing: Some Unanswered Questions?G. Fennell? 15. Sheltered Housing: The Warden’s View?C. Phillipson and P. Strang? 16. Report of a Pilot Study of Delayed Discharges from Hospital: Liverpool 1983-4?R.M. Eley and L.M. Middleton? 17. Ageing in Turkey: Patterns, Provisions and Prospects?C.S. Gilleard, A.A. Gurkan and E. Gilleard??Part Four: Developments in Psychology??18. Progress Towards the Elucidation of Early Dementia: A Community Study?N. Wood, J.R.M. Copeland, R.T. Searle, C. McWilliam, M.E. Dewey, D.M. Forshaw, V.K. Sharma, P. Saunders, J. Collins and C. Clulow? 19. The Contribution of the National Adult Reading Test to the Detection of Dementia Amongst Community Dwelling Old People?M.G. Binks and A.D.M. Davies? 20. Life Stress and Depression in the Elderly: Experiences from a Community Study?S.J. Wilkinson, O. James and A.D.M. Davies??21. Sleep and the Elderly: Some Psychological Dimensions and their Implications for Treatment?K. Gledhill? 22. Attributions of Staff Working with the Elderly: A Pilot Study?C. Martin? 23. Social Situations and Self-Images of Older Women?O. Cibulski? 24. A Brief Self-Report Scale for Assessing Personal Engagement in the Elderly: Reliability and Validity?K. Morgan, H.D. Dallosso and S.B.J. Ebrahim.? Details of Contributors.? Index.