Dementia is on the rise around the world, and health organizations in Canada, the United States, and New Zealand are responding to the urgent need - voiced by communities and practitioners - for guidance on how best to address memory...
Older people
- Auteur:Hulko, Wendy, Wilson, Danielle, Balestrery, JeanSommaire:
- Auteur:Ramsay, FrederickSommaire:
Frank Smith, famed writer of murder mysteries, boards Southwest Airlines heading from Phoenix to Baltimore. His goal is his 50th class reunion at Scott Academy, but behind him he leaves the highly suspicious disappearance of his wife...
- Auteur:Nelson, ColleenSommaire:
The West Highland Terrier that brought Harvey Comes Home to life returns with his tail wagging and his nose sharp, ready for a new adventure Harvey the West Highland Terrier, hero of Harvey Comes Home , is back with his beloved Maggie....
- Auteur:Welsh, MoiraSommaire:
Happily Ever Older reveals how the right living arrangements can create a vibrancy that defies age or ability. Reporter Moira Welsh has spent years investigating retirement homes and long-term care facilities and wants to tell the...
- Auteur:Friedan, BettySommaire:
Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, Friedan wrote, we have denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We have seen age only as decline. In this powerful and very personal book, Betty Friedan charted her...
- Auteur:Frédéric ParrotSommaire:
Les Amazones sont passées du luxe indécent de Moskva-city à la laideur harassante de résidences pour aînés de Québec. Elles y découvrent des horreurs : contention, gavage, aliénation, malpropreté et un homme véreux, Denis...
- Auteur:Zimmerman, LillianSommaire:
With incredible wit, wisdom, and thoughtfulness, author Lillian Zimmerman exposes and challenges pervasive ageist assumptions and stereotypes that continue to permeate society. She offers positive and inspirational messages in response...
- Auteur:Zimmerman, LillianSommaire:
With incredible wit, wisdom, and thoughtfulness, author Lillian Zimmerman exposes and challenges pervasive ageist assumptions and stereotypes that continue to permeate society. She offers positive and inspirational messages in response...
- Auteur:Harbison, Joan RSommaire:
"The mistreatment of diverse older people in diverse ways is categorized in many societies as "elder abuse and neglect," yet this concept has not been subjected to rigorous critical inquiry. Instead, it has most often represented the...
- Auteur:Peterson, ShelleySommaire:
Bird returns to Saddle Creek and her beloved horse Sunny for Christmas. Bird always dreads Christmas. For as long as she could remember, her mother Eva goes into a tailspin of selfishness and drama as the holiday approaches. This one...
- Auteur:Brooks, MarthaSommaire:
The car lurches to a halt. The old man finally rolls down his window, studies Laker for one eternal moment while his daughter, behind the steering wheel, fumes and listens to the radio. Laker stands, shrunken and zipped and snapped and...
- Auteur:Smiley, JaneSommaire:
The story of a man, whose wife and daughters refuse to accept the fact that he is dying.
- Auteur:Tursten, HeleneSommaire:
Maud is an irascible eighty-eight-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and ... no qualms about a little murder. This funny, irreverent story collection by Helene Tursten, author of the Irene Huss Investigation series,...
- Auteur:Donoghue, EmmaSommaire:
A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew with him to the French Riviera where he attempts to uncover his mother's wartime secrets.
- Auteur:Public Legal Education Association of SaskatchewanSommaire:
Please note: legislation affecting care for older adults may vary significantly from province to province. If you are looking for this information for a province other than Saskatchewan, please contact...
- Auteur:Somers, SuzanneSommaire:
At seventy-three years young, #1 New York Times bestselling author and health guru Suzanne Somers has established herself as a leading voice on antiaging. With A New Way to Age , she "is at the forefront again, bringing seminal...
- Auteur:Beisser, Arnold R.Sommaire:
- Auteur:COMFORT, AlexSommaire:
An important book by a leading gerontologist which will go far to restoring the dignity and confidence of the ageing, especially in their value and potential to society.
- Auteur:Pillemer, Karl A.Sommaire:
Pillemer interviewed more than 1,000 Americans over the age of 65 about issues like children, marriage, money, and careers, finding time and again their answers pointed to the same set of essential lessons. Here, he delivers the...