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When it comes to ageing, if anyone |doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus', that person is Ken Tout. Hugely experienced and admired on the international scene in respect [...]

When it comes to ageing, if anyone |doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus', that person is Ken Tout. Hugely experienced and admired on the international scene in respect [...]

Status, role and resource - these are the seminal concepts that prompt this serious study of Black Americans. It is based on findings from the 1979/80 National Survey of Black [...]

About a dozen scholars assembled to discuss their own papers on metaphors of ageing, and this book contains those papers, revised in the light of that intimate discussion. The transfer [...]

Having a son who disrespectfully mouths the words silently as I retell for the umpteenth time the tales of yesteryear, I am ever eager to arm myself with ammunition about [...]

It is a happy chance for those involved with old age that their category has been chosen as the |demonstration field' for this wide inquiry into the notion of |welfare [...]

A choir of eighteen policy analysts seriously intone their dutiful way through this sombre oratorio on the subject of the reconstruction of public policy since 1979, a year which threatens [...]

Recently re-reading (you never catch Dickens' buffs 'reading') The Old Curiosity Shop, I did so in painful awareness of the celebrated mot of Oscar Wilde that 'only someone with a [...]

General Editor: Abraham Monk New York: Columbia University Press. 1994. 604 pp. Price 50.00£ (hardback). 'The corn is as high,' in `Oklahoma', `as an elephant's eye', and the Columbia Retirement [...]

Edited by C. M. Berdes, A. A. Zych and G. D. Dawson Binghampton, New York: The Haworth Press Inc. 1993. 173 pp. Price US $32.95 (hardback); US $25.95 (paperback). Hang [...]

Ageing, Independence and the Life Course Edited by S. Arber and M. Evandrou London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers. 1993. 256 pp. Price £16.95 (paperback). This excellent book acts as a salutary [...]

Family Relationships in Later Life Edited by T. H. Brubaker London: Sage Publications. 2nd edn. 1990. 320 pp. Price £19.50 (paperback). Forms of marriage have long been one of humankind's [...]

My grandfather, a celebrated racounteur, counselled that, whilst one should never lie, one should always embellish the truth. Would that he were available to urge the subjects of this book [...]

The Second Age of work and parenting has a habit of consuming human energy and catching up people in its thrall, to the extent that they are overly identified with [...]

On the draft of some research findings on the symptoms and treatment of cholera in Victorian cities, my tutor, international pundit although he was, scribbled: |God! I can feel it [...]

Powhatan Nursing Home and Countryside Manor was the venue each Tuesday morning for some 30 or 40 people, the majority old persons, average age 86, to meet for a learning [...]

A typical transatlantic compendium of solid and earnest advice and information about the widespread issue of divorce - but should it concern those involved with older age? Yes, and interestingly [...]