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Autore: | Lloyd Liz |
Titolo: | Health and Care in Ageing Societies : A New International Approach / / Liz Lloyd |
Pubblicazione: | Bristol : , : Policy Press, , 2012 |
©2012 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
Disciplina: | 362.19897 |
Soggetto topico: | Population aging |
Older people - Medical care | |
Older people - Health and hygiene | |
Aged | |
Health Promotion | |
Health Policy - trends | |
Health Services for the Aged | |
Soggetto geografico: | United Kingdom |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Health and Care in Ageing Societies; Contents; List of abbreviations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; How the book is organised; 2. Patterns and trends in ageing and health; Introduction; Life expectancy and mortality rates; Causes of death; The 'double burden'; Morbidity and disability; Gender inequalities; Chronic illness, disability and the compression of morbidity thesis; Population ageing and social support; Summary; 3. Understanding health and care; Introduction; Biomedical approaches to health; Health as the absence of illness |
Functional or instrumental models of health: health as a means to an endPositive conceptualisations of health: the salutogenic approach; Health and identity; Conceptualising care; A lifecourse approach to health and care; The third age-fourth age dichotomy; Summary; 4. The policy process in health and care; Introduction; Policy as process; The context of the policy process: the impacts of globalisation; The ideological terrain: the development of dominant policy discourses on ageing; The political and organisational terrain; Policy implementation: fine on paper but poor in practice? | |
Engagement in the policy process: struggle and compromiseValues and ethics in health and care policies for ageing societies; Equity in health: the capabilities approach; Capabilities and healthcare policies; Summary; 5. Healthy ageing: upstream actions to prevent illness; Introduction; Public health and health promotion; Critiques of the New Public Health and health promotion; Ageing, disease prevention and health promotion; From research to action; Active ageing: the moral message of health promotion in later life; Socioeconomic determinants and social capital; Summary | |
6. Medicine, ageing and healthcareIntroduction; Health services and health; Population ageing and healthcare systems; Health work migration; Age and equity in access to healthcare; Anti-ageing medicine; Healthcare needs in later life; Dementia; Depression; Secondary prevention in chronic and non-communicable diseases (NCDs); Summary; 7. Care for health in later life; Introduction; Dependence on others: the need for care; Dependence at the end of life; The provision of formal care at the end of life; Conceptualisations of care in policies; Family obligations and unpaid care | |
Policy developments in long-term careGlobal chains of care; Summary; 8. Conclusion; The ethics of care as a framework for analysis; The ethics of care and gerontology; References; Index | |
Sommario/riassunto: | Offering a critical analysis of the limitations of contemporary policies, this book calls for a fuller understanding of the relationship between health and care throughout the lifecourse. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Health and care in ageing societies |
ISBN: | 1-4473-0760-7 |
1-280-67697-3 | |
9786613653901 | |
1-4473-0492-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910462185003321 |
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