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Ezzat Hegazy: an Eminent Father of Social Gerontology in The Arabic World [PDF]

The Egyptian Journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 2019
Professor Ezzat Hegazy (1931-2016), was an eminent social gerontologist. He is considered to be one of the founding fathers of social gerontology in Egypt and the Arabic world.
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Gerontology in India [PDF]

The Gerontologist, 2015
India, with a population of 1.22 billion, has a predominantly agriculture-based economy. Its 90 million elderly population heavily depend on their children for financial support and caregiving. Research on aging in India today is focused on the medical, biological, behavioral, and social sciences. Aging as an independent subject is only taught at a few
Ramamurti V, Panruti, Phoebe S, Liebig, Jamuna, Duvvuru   +2 more
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Health, community and development : towards a social psychology of participation [PDF]

, 2000
Population ageing is one of the major contemporary issues facing societies across the world. Originally framed as a major social and economic challenge, demographic ageing is now beginning to be seen as offering huge potential to individuals as well as ...
Bernard, Brown, Buffel, Campbell, Cheng, Cong, Cotten, Emlet, Flick, Golant, Guo, Hoffman, Hosegood, Howarth, Keating, Kirkby-Geddes, Knodel, Lehning, Li, Lui, Lui, Martinson, McCall, Means, Menec, Nelson, Phillipson, Raymond, Roos, Roos, Scharf, Scharlach, Stephens, Sum, Tang, Vasunilashorn, Wahl, Walsh, Warburton, Warburton, Warburton, Wiles, World Health Organization (WHO), World Health Organization (WHO)   +43 more
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Envelhecer nos finais do século XX. Desafio à gerontologia e geriatria.

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 1995
This article concerns teaching and training in medical geriatrics and gerontology. A synoptic overview of this subject in developed countries is presented.
M Helena-Saldanha
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SILVER ECONOMY IN THE CONDITIONS OF DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGES ON WARMII AND MASURIA

Rozprawy Społeczne, 2020
The subject of the article is the silver economy sector in Warmia and Mazury, and the purpose is an attempt to answer the question about its role and place in the face of the ongoing process of population aging.
Majka Łojko, Anna Leszczyńska-Rejchert
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Multidissiplinêre beskouinge op veroudering vanuit ‘n pastorale perspektief

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2009
Multiprofessional aspects of ageing seen from a pastoral perspective This article describes existing research on gerontology, and explores the role of pastoral care.
Elsona Malan, Yolanda Dreyer
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ÉLIE METCHNIKOFF’S LEGACY IN THE FIELD OF ORTHOBIOSIS

Anti-Aging Eastern Europe, 2023
Elie Metchnikoff is well known for his fundamental works in the field of cellular immunity and phagocytosis for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize. He gained his international reputation for ground-breaking research across numerous academic disciplines:
Bohdana Doskaliuk
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Education and older adults at the University of the Third Age [PDF]

, 2012
This article reports a critical analysis of older adult education in Malta. In educational gerontology, a critical perspective demands the exposure of how relations of power and inequality, in their myriad forms, combinations, and complexities, are ...
Apple M. W., Ball S. J., Battersby D., Biggs S., Biggs S., Bourdieu P., Findsen B., Findsen B., Formosa M., Glendenning F., Glendenning F., Huang C., Illich I., Jackson S., Laslett P., Manheimer R. J., Marvin Formosa, McNair S., Midwinter E., Moody H. R., Morris D., Neuman W. L., Okely J., Philibert M., Phillipson C., Radcliffe D., Swindell R. F., Tornstam L., Troisi J., Vellas P.   +29 more
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Serum Concentrations of Myostatin and Myostatin-Interacting Proteins do not differ between young and Scarcopenic elderly men [PDF]

, 2011
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A. DeVries, A. Joyson, A. M. Tommasi, A. Ratkevicius, Amin, Baumgartner, C. A. Greig, C. Grierson, Carlson, Clark, D. Crowther, D. M. Reid, F. Gilbert, Gonzalez-Cadavid, GREIG, H. Wackerhage, Hameed, I. Selmer, J. Brady, K. C. H. Fearon, Lakshman, Lauretani, Lee, Lexell, Moreland, Newman, P. Rauchhaus, P. Yaworsky, Pahor, Payette, Rantanen, Rommel, Rosenberg, S. Alesci, Schuelke, Siriett, Streckis, T. Dhanani, T. W. Redpath, Wagner, Wolfe, Zimmers   +41 more
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Theorizing and Social Gerontology

International Journal of Ageing and Later Life, 2006
Theory is increasingly important in social gerontology. Thus it is gratifying to see the debut of a new journal that encourages theorizing about age and aging. The papers in Volume 1, number 1 of the International Journal of Ageing and Later Life reflect
Vern Bengtsson
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