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What's so critical about it? An analysis of critique within different strands of critical gerontology

Ageing & Society, 2020
Shortly after emerging in the 1980s, critical gerontology became a recognised part of mainstream gerontology. Under the umbrella of ‘critical gerontology’ sits a number of orientations that draw attention to how ageing is socially located, while ...
Shane Doheny, I. Jones
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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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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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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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GERONTOLOGICAL TRAINING: THE CHALLENGE OF INTEGRATING DIFFERENT PROFESSIONAL CATEGORIES

Geriatrics, Gerontology and Aging, 2021
Gerontological training must be present on the discussion agenda of several training and professional qualification entities. Despite the expressive increase in life expectancy in Brazil, the number of qualified professionals to adequately meet the ...
Maria Angélica dos Santos Sanchez, Wallace Hetmanek dos Santos   +1 more
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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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Is there a need for a fourth statement? An examination of the critical and humanist statements of educational gerontology principles

, 2020
The guiding principles of the education of older adults have been stated in three landmark publications. In their statements of principles, the authors of those publications affiliated themselves with one of two older-adult learning philosophies: a ...
Hany Hachem
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Dress and age: the intersection of life and work [PDF]

, 2015
In this article I outline the influences, intellectual and personal, that have led me to the subject of dress and age, a topic that I have explored with great enjoyment over the last decade.
Twigg, Julia
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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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The Use of Physician Assistants for Health and Wellness in Aging Populations [PDF]

, 2020
The Use of Physician Assistants for Health and Wellness in Aging Populations Desiree Longmire, Depts. of Kinesiology and Health Science, Biology, & Chemistry, with Dr. Christine Booker, Dept.
Longmire, Desiree
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