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Showing posts with label Book reviews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Book reviews. Show all posts
Thursday, 6 March 2008
Monday, 11 February 2008
Movement from Hospital to Residential Aged Care: Preliminary Results
Movement from hospital to residential aged care - report released from Australian Institute of Health & Welfare (AIHW), provides preliminary results using data linkage process applied to data from four states and two territories for 2001-02, investigating the use of residential aged care for interim care following a period in hospital. Read the full report online ...
Thursday, 7 February 2008
Older Australia at a Glance
Older Australia at a glance: 4th edition provides detailed information on the different circumstances and needs of 2.7 million older Australians according to their age, economic status, health and functioning and living arrangements.
This edition covers a much broader range of topics covered by the previous editions. It includes topics on transport use; use of technology; intergenerational transfers within families; vision problems; oral health; dental services and Extended Aged Care at Home.
Topics in previous editions have been expanded to include new material on social and community participation; superannuation; health and expenditure and each of the National Health priority areas
All information is supported by figures, tables and a comprehensive reference list. Older Australia at a Glance is a valuable reference for students, researchers, policy makers, practitioners, service providers and carers.
Click here for a free online copy.
This edition covers a much broader range of topics covered by the previous editions. It includes topics on transport use; use of technology; intergenerational transfers within families; vision problems; oral health; dental services and Extended Aged Care at Home.
Topics in previous editions have been expanded to include new material on social and community participation; superannuation; health and expenditure and each of the National Health priority areas
All information is supported by figures, tables and a comprehensive reference list. Older Australia at a Glance is a valuable reference for students, researchers, policy makers, practitioners, service providers and carers.
Click here for a free online copy.
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Book Review: “Quality of Life in Old Age”
Quality of Life in Old Age: International and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives edited by Heidrun Mollenkopf and Alan Walker, Springer, 2007
This book brings together leading researchers on quality of life in old age, from different perspectives and disciplines. A whole range of important issues in ageing people’s QoL is covered including, economic resources, social relations and networks, diverging national welfare systems and social policies, environmental conditions, diverging conditions in ethnic group ageing, case of decreasing health and the challenge of care.
An excellent resource for gerontology and quality of life researchers, now available in the library
This book brings together leading researchers on quality of life in old age, from different perspectives and disciplines. A whole range of important issues in ageing people’s QoL is covered including, economic resources, social relations and networks, diverging national welfare systems and social policies, environmental conditions, diverging conditions in ethnic group ageing, case of decreasing health and the challenge of care.
An excellent resource for gerontology and quality of life researchers, now available in the library
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