Elderly Care: A world perspective

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Intention....Pages 3-6
The prospect for a greying world....Pages 7-9
The storm clouds are grey....Pages 10-12
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The family undisturbed — intergenerational realities in traditional Africa....Pages 15-20
Family realities....Pages 21-27
To support the family....Pages 28-33
All found at home....Pages 34-38
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Very good neighbours!....Pages 41-46
A home that is its community....Pages 47-52
Alternatives to institutions....Pages 53-59
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Empowerment: concept and demonstration....Pages 63-70
Power to the residents....Pages 71-74
To security through community....Pages 75-80
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Most elderly, most active....Pages 83-87
Incentives to activity....Pages 88-90
Senior citizens unite....Pages 91-95
Their own counsel....Pages 96-101
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Fitness survives ageing....Pages 105-111
A foundation for good health....Pages 112-120
Advised to live longer....Pages 121-126
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Activity, its own medicine....Pages 129-134
Fuelling a small enterprise....Pages 135-139
Recycling the old....Pages 140-145
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A home in Kiev....Pages 149-154
Simply, the best housing....Pages 155-159
Congregate housing....Pages 160-165
Elder villages: ghettos or godsends?....Pages 166-172
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Integrating services in a changing Europe....Pages 175-180
Extending services of an elderly persons’ home....Pages 181-186
A multifacet centre....Pages 187-194
Wedding the incompatibles....Pages 195-202
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New perceptions of dementia....Pages 205-210
Hidden wealth within dementia....Pages 211-218
A crisis of perceptions....Pages 219-225
‘Rage, rage against the dying of the light’....Pages 226-234
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Training for elder care....Pages 237-244
Bridging the patient — practitioner gulf....Pages 245-251
Training, retraining and reintegration....Pages 252-260
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Genesis of a care organization....Pages 263-270
An integrated strategy....Pages 271-276
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Ensuring optimum services....Pages 277-285
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A woman’s place?....Pages 289-296
The widow’s predicament....Pages 297-300
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Reflections....Pages 303-314
A concept for ageing to the year 2001....Pages 315-315
Back Matter....Pages 316-335