Dependency or Interdependency in Old Age

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Dependency, Interdependency and Autonomy; An Introduction....Pages 3-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Dependency and the Elderly: Problems of Conceptualisation and Measurement....Pages 11-23
Health Criteria for Independency of Older People....Pages 24-34
Criteria of Independent (Autonomous) Life in Old Age....Pages 35-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
Memory Disorders as Criteria of Dependency in Old People: Evaluation and Measurement....Pages 45-53
Comments on ‘Memory Disorders as Criteria of Dependency in Old People: Evaluation and Measurement’....Pages 54-55
Forced and Autonomous Detachment, Their Relationships to Coping Style and Independence in Later Adulthood....Pages 56-70
Dependency — Due To Lack of Individual or Environmental Resources?....Pages 71-79
The Impact of Institutionalization on Expressing Needs and Wishes....Pages 80-87
Dependency on Activity Before, During and After Activating Treatment in a Home for Aged People....Pages 88-95
Some Remarks on the Concepts of Need and Health and Their Treatment in Gerontological Research....Pages 99-117
Socio-economic Criteria of Dependence of Old Persons....Pages 118-124
Independency in Old Age — Some Architectural Aspects....Pages 125-134
Poverty and Old Age....Pages 135-144
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
That was Your Life: A Biographical Approach to Later Life....Pages 147-161
The Meaning of Dependency....Pages 162-173
Back Matter....Pages 174-175