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Growing older
— quality of life in old age | | Author(s) | Alan Walker, Catherine Hagan Hennessy |
| Corporate Author | Growing Older (GO) Programme, Economic and Social Research Council - ESRC |
| Publisher | Open University Press, Maidenhead, 2004 |
| Pages | 268 pp (Growing older series) |
| Source | Open University Press, McGraw-Hill Education, McGraw-Hill House, Shoppenhangers Road, Maidenhead, Berkshire SL6 2QL. Email: enquiries@openup.co.uk Website: http://www.openup.co.uk |
| Keywords | Quality of life ; Projects ; Research Reviews. |
| Annotation | The work of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Growing Older (GO) Programme, carried out between 1999-2004, is introduced. In this book, authors of 10 of the Programme's 24 projects present and comment on their findings. The focus is on how quality of life can be extended to older people, with regard to the following themes: ethnic inequalities; environment, identity and old age; poverty and social exclusion; loneliness; older men's health; older women's quality of life; social support and ethnicity; the meaning of grandparenthood; and frailty and institutional life. The concluding chapter considers future directions of UK research on older people's quality of life, and in particular how interdisciplinary research can add to the fund of social science evidence that has been compiled by the GO Programme. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041130004 B |
| Classmark | F:59: 3E: 3A:6KC |
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