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Getting old is not for cowards
— comfortable, healthy ageing | | Author(s) | Jan Reed, Glenda Cook, Susan Childs |
| Corporate Author | Centre for Care of Older People (CCOP), University of Northumbria; Information Management Research Institute (IMRI), University of Northumbria; Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF |
| Publisher | Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, 2003 |
| Pages | 70 pp |
| Source | York Publishing Services, 64 Hallfield Road, Layerthorpe, York YO31 7ZQ. Also available as pdf (ISBN 1859351220) www.jrf.org.uk |
| Keywords | Good Health ; Independence ; Projects ; Literature reviews. |
| Annotation | The title, "Growing old is not for cowards" is taken from one of the interviews done for the study, which was carried out by two research centres, CCOP (Centre for Care of Older People) and IMRI (Information Management Research Institute), both at the University of Northumbria. Their project, funded and commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), was a way of exploring different ideas about health for older people, alternatives to medical models that defined health simply as the absence of disease. The book reflects the study's three stages, starting with background discussions with older people in focus groups. Themes from interviews were used for the second stage, the generation of search terms and strategies for a literature search and selection of items. Stage three, an analysis and review of the literature retrieved, discusses the prevalent medical model, which sees ageing as a time of inevitable decline and deficit, and defines "healthy ageing" as avoiding or escaping them. It also reviews the "heroic model", developed partly in response to the deficit model, which seeks to promote the idea of growing older as a positive experience. An appendix sets out the mapping of search terms across databases. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030916001 B |
| Classmark | CD: C3: 3E: 64A |
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