Social Gerontology : New Directions (Paperback)

Editor’s Introduction.? Introduction: The Case for a Critical Gerontology?Chris Phillipson and Alan Walker??Part One: Research Influence on Policy and Practice??1. The Research-Led Attack on Sheltered Housing and its Policy Implications: A Review of Recent Studies?Graham Fennell and Ann Way? 2. Illuminating and Influencing Local Policy and Practice?David J. Hunter??3. Research as an Instrument for Implementing Service Provision for Elderly People: The Case of Newham Health Authority’s “Elderly Screening Project”?Catherine Itzin? 4. Housing for Frail Elderly People ? The Context, Early Findings and Question Marks?Anthea Tinker and Bill Bytheway??Part Two: Issues for Social Policy??5. New Managerialist Argument and the Supply and Financing of Care?Bleddyn Davies? 6. Public Money and Private Care: Paradoxes and Problems?Sally Baldwin and Anne Corden??7. Women and Occupational Pension Provision: Past and Future?Dulcie Groves??Part Three: Ageing in Europe??8. Primary Social and Health Services for the Aged in Greece?A.S. Dontas? 9. The Elderly in Poland: An Overview of Selected Problems and Changes?Brunon Synak? 10. Economic Activity of the Elderly in Turkey: An Analysis of Urban and Rural Populations?A.A. Gurkan and C.J. Gilleard? 11. Responses to Health and Social Problems in Old Age?Hans Thomae??Part Four: Considerations for Care in the Community??12. Care in the Families of Redundant Welsh Steelworkers?Bill Bytheway? 13. Empowering Carers: Bexley ACE, the Bexley Community Care Scheme and the Health Service?Carol Foster and Nan Maitland? 14. Cornwall’s Gaza Strip: Administrative and Cultural Constraints to Geriatric Care in a Peripheral Rural Area?George Giarchi??Part Five: Mental Health in the Community? 15. Development of the Geriatric Mental State Examination and Organic Depression Index as a Case Finding Instrument?C. McWilliam, J.R.M. Copeland and M.E. Dewey? 16. The Liverpool Study of Continuing Health in the Community: Progress with the Year 3 Survey?I.A. Davidson, J.R.M. Copeland, M.E. Dewey, V.K. Sharma, P. Saunders, C. Sullivan, C. McWilliam, L.M. Voruganti and S.V. Manohar? 17. The Rights of the Elderly Suffering from Dementia?W.D. Boyd?Part Six: Conceptual Developments? 18. Older Workers, Unemployment and the Discouraged Worker Effect?Frank Laczko? 19. Does Social Class Matter in Later Life??Christina Victor and Maria Evandrou? 20. “Managing” ? A Concept for Contexualising How People Live Their Later Lives?Silvana di Gregorio??Part Seven: Future Trends in Gerontology??21. Educational Gerontology in the Future: Unanswered Questions?Frank Glendenning.? Details of Contributors.