Ageing and Later Life

Introduction/PART ONE: PERSONAL ACCOUNTS/Look Me In the Eye/Coming Out of the Age Closet/The Ageing of Mary Berenson/Home From Home?/Mrs Hatter/Mr and Mrs Cosgrove/Epilogue to/An Autobiography/PART TWO: IMAGES AND IDENTITY/Old Age in Crime Fiction/A Cream Cracker Under the Settee/Have the Men Had Enough?/The Photographic Image/Ageing with a Disability/Ageing and Cultural Stereotypes of Older Women/Ageing and Ethnicity/PART THREE: ILL-HEALTH AND WELL-BEING/The Health of Older Asians/Osteoporosis in Women/Depression in Later Life/Frames of Reference for an Understanding of Dementia/Love Sex and Aging/Age Discrimination in Health Care/PART FOUR: INTERVENTION AND THERAPY/Does Group Living Work?/A Holistic Approach in the Ward/Elderly People Their Medicines and Their Doctors/Assessing Risk/Vulnerable to Abuse/Baffle Locks/In Whose Best Interest?/Freedom to Wander/PART FIVE: POWER AND CONTROL/Obstacles to the Development of User-Centred Services/Rest Assured/New Moves in Quality Assurance for Residential Care/A Powerhouse for Change/Empowering Users/Approaches to Advocacy/The Pensioners' Movement/Federation Consolidation Fragmentation 1938-48/On Being a Woman in the Pensioners' Movement/PART SIX: CONCEPTS AND VALUES/Ageism/Concept and Definition/`Us' and `Them'? Feminist Research Community Care and Disability/Philosophical Perspectives on Quality of Life/Religion and Aging/Gerontological Approaches to Quality of Life/Measuring Quality of Life/PART SEVEN: POLICY AND POLITICS/Ideology and the Private Sector of Welfare/Housing and Community Care/Workers versus Pensioners/The New Prospects for Retirement/Older People in Europe/Social and Economic Policies/PART EIGHT: PASTS/Born 1898/A Brief Group Biography/Oral History as a Social Movement/Reminiscence and Older People/History of Migration to the United Kingdom/Glimpses of a Lost History/Social Services for Elderly People/From Beveridge to Thatcher/The Historical Development of Geriatric Medicine as a Specialty/History of Old Age in Western Culture and Society/PART NINE: FUTURES/The Politics of Age/Ageing in Developing Countries/Has it Got Anything to Do with Us?/Paths for Future Population Ageing/Can We Survive the World Revolution?