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| Understanding quality of life in old age | | Author(s) | Alan Walker |
| Corporate Author | Growing Older (GO) Programme, Economic and Social Research Council - ESRC |
| Publisher | Open University Press, Maidenhead, 2005 |
| Pages | 209 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 | Key findings from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Growing Older (GO) Programme, carried out between 1999-2004, are considered. In this book, authors of eight of the Programme's 24 projects present and comment on their findings. The themes represented are: meaning and measurement of quality of life; inequalities for quality of life; the environments of ageing and getting out and about; family and economic roles; social participation (including aspects of ethnicity and gender); social isolation and loneliness; frailty, identity and social support; and bereavement. While the focus is on how quality of life can be extended to older people, projects were characterised by a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to provide objective indicators of QoL. The concluding chapter notes the rising importance of ageing as a policy issue, and the relationship between research and policy. This book is a companion volume to "Growing older: quality of life in old age", edited by Alan Walker and Catherine Hagan Hennessy. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050719001 B |
| Classmark | F:59: 3E: 3A:6KC |
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