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Ageing in Place in Urban Environments : Critical Perspectives
Ageing in Place in Urban Environments considers together two major trends influencing economic and social life: population ageing on the one side and urbanisation on the other. Both have been identified as dominant demographic trends of the twenty-first century. Cities are where the majority of people of all ages now live and where they will spend their old age. Nevertheless, cities are typical…
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- 9781032134666
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- 218
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- Aging and Society
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Ageing in Europe. Supporting Policies for an Inclusive Society
SHARE is an international survey designed to answer the societal challenges that face us due to rapid population ageing. How do we Europeans age? How will we do economically, socially and healthwise? How are these domains interrelated? The authors of this multidisciplinary book have taken a further big step towards answering these questions based on the recent SHARE data in order to support pol…
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- 9783110444414
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- xii, 380
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Ageing as a Unique Experience: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ageing and Lat…
Ageing is a diverse and multifaceted experience that is unique to each person. The process of ageing is lived differently according to each individual’s socio-cultural, historical, religious, and political context, among other factors. However, the stereotype of homogeneity is still one of the strongest aspects related to later life. This Special Issue covers manuscripts of original research …
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- 9783036566184
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- 224
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Ageing and Technology : Perspectives from the Social Sciences
The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous aspects. In current debates on technology, however, the »human factor« is often largely ignored. The ageing individual is rather seen as a malfunctioning machine whose def…
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- 9783837629576
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- Science Studies
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- NONE
Ageing and Health: The Politics of Better Policies
Life in an ageing society is a truly novel experience. For most of our species’ history, a large majority of people were young and life much beyond 60 seemingly a rarity (Thane, 2005). Now, populations around the world are ageing. It might be happening in countries at different speeds and to varying extents, but it is an almost universal phenomenon.
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- 9781108973236
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- 362.1084 GRE a
Ageing and Covid-19 : Making Sense of a Disrupted World
This volume presents a range of research approaches to the exploration of ageing during a pandemic situation. One of the first collections of its kind, it offers an array of studies employing research methodologies that lend themselves to replication in similar contexts by those seeking to understand the effects of epidemics on older people. Thematically organised, it shows how to reconcile qua…
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- 9781000530971
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- Social Perspectives on Ageing and Later Life
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Age Related Macular Degeneration : The Recent Advances in Basic Research and …
Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of vision loss and blindness in the developed countries. In the past decade, great progress has been made in understanding the pathobiology and genetics of this blinding disease, as well as in finding new therapies for its treatment. These include the discovery of several genes that are associated with the risk of AMD, new anti-VEGF tr…
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- 9789533078649
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- 312
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Age of Information: Concept, Metric and Tool for Network Control
The concept of information freshness has developed over the last few years into an active and rapidly growing area of research. It has become known as the Age of Information (AoI). After its initial formal introduction, it became clear that it was very relevant (if not crucial) for numerous applications, ranging from autonomous vehicle systems, the Internet of Things, real-time computing to dat…
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- 9783036572925
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- 400
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"The Truth about the Desert"; Exile, Memory, and the Making of Communities am…
"Kebenaran tentang Gurun" mengeksplorasi kondisi kehidupan di mana pengungsi Tuareg dari Mali utara membangun kembali kehidupan mereka di diaspora Nigerien dan bagaimana kondisi ini mempengaruhi pemahaman diri dan praktik budaya mereka, hierarki status yang sudah ada, dan pembentukan identitas agama. Buku ini menyeimbangkan perhatian akademis sebelumnya terhadap bangsawan Tuareg dengan memfokus…
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- 9783946198352
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- 1 online resource (210 p.)
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- 305.906914 DIA t
"The Touch of Civilization"; Comparing American and Russian Internal Coloniza…
Karya ini membandingkan proses dan praktik kolonisasi internal Amerika dan Rusia pada abad kesembilan belas, suatu bentuk ekspansi kontinen yang berdampingan, imperialisme, dan kolonialisme yang mengintegrasikan tanah dan masyarakat pribumi. Ini memberikan pemeriksaan kritis dan komparatif tentang kolonisasi internal yang dilakukan oleh Amerika Serikat dan Rusia dan dialami oleh dua populasi pr…
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- 9781607325505
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- 1 online resource
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- 325.3 SAB t
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