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Ageing in Australia: Challenges and Opportunities (International Perspectives on Aging Book 16) by Kate O’Loughlin, Colette Browning, Hal Kendig (eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This stimulating volume examines the many faces of Australia’s ageing population, the social and health issues they contend with, and the steps being taken—and many that should be taken—to help ensure a more positive and productive later life. Individual and societal ageing are conceptualized as developmental in nature, socially diverse, and marked by daily life challenges stemming from the country’s economic structures, attitudes, geography, political landscape, and infrastructure. Wide-ranging coverage (e.g., health, inequalities, employment, transportation) assesses options available to older people, and the role of families, employers, service providers, government agencies, and others in promoting or expanding those choices. The book’s double emphasis on challenges in older people’s lives and opportunities for enhancing their quality of life is on clear display as case studies examine policy issues—and propose solutions—in a societal and individual context. Included in the coverage: · Australian developments in ageing: issues and history. · Cultural diversity, health, and ageing. · Indigenous Australians and ageing: responding to diversity in policy and practice. · Enhancing t

Who reads Ageing in Australia: Challenges and Opportunities (International Perspectives on Aging Book 16)?

Author

Kate O’Loughlin, Colette Browning, Hal Kendig (eds.)

Publisher

Springer-Verlag New York

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781493964642

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Social Science, Psychology