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What is the lived experience of previously healthy older adults as they face disability in late life, and how is disability assimilated in their identity? How do prevailing practices facilitate—or limit—options for elders living with new disabilities? To address these questions, Jeffrey Kahana and Eva Kahana uniquely synthesize disability and gerontological perspectives to explore both the unfolding challenges of aging and the practices and policies that can enhance the lives of older adults.

Title Disability and aging : learning from both to empower the lives of older adults / Jeffrey S. Kahana and Eva Kahana.
Publisher Boulder, Colorado
London, England : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Creation Date 2017
Content Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 The World of Late-Life Disability -- 2 Contextualizing Aging and Disability -- 3 Learning from Gerontology -- 4 A Life Course Perspective -- 5 Adventurous Aging Through International Travel -- 6 Managing the Physical Environment -- 7 Enhancing Care in the Nursing Home Environment -- 8 The Experience of Disability at the End of Life -- 9 Toward Better Public Policies -- 10 The Promise of Convergence in Gerontology and Disability Studies -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book
Series Disability in Society
Extent 1 online resource (251 pages).
Language English
Copyright Date ©2017
National Library system number 997011079160405171
MARC RECORDS
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