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Older people and the penal system
- Author:
- LE MESURIER Nick
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 18(1), January 2008, Online only
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
This article draws upon current literature to give an overview of the population of older prisoners and their needs, and outlines some of the implications these have for the way they are served in prison and on release.
Older immigrants in France: a medical and a social approach of exclusion
- Author:
- PITAUD Philippe
- Journal article citation:
- Generations Review, 14(3), July 2004, pp.20-22.
- Publisher:
- British Society of Gerontology
This article is based on four years data issued from health assessment, free of chare, intended for elderly immigrants in France and specifically in Marseille. The survey shows that elderly immigrants suffer from isolation (very few migrants have a family at their place of residence) but also a collective isolation in certain districts or homes for immigrants. In addition, there were specific pathologies resulting from difficult working conditions, non access to services for older persons, non access to social and health rights and from not being covered by social insurance. Concludes that to continue to live in their own home, older immigrants need French society to develop for them a policy which allows: a suitable home, a coordinated range of services, the keeping up of social intercourse and the mobilisation and support of the informal assistance networks.
Gerontology: responding to an ageing society
- Editor:
- MORGAN Kevin
- Publisher:
- Jessica Kingsley/British Society of Gerontology
- Publication year:
- 1992
- Pagination:
- 253p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aims to provide a representative overview of how contemporary gerontological research is identifying and responding to the issues facing our ageing society, with an emphasis in each chapter on need. Also examines the range of approaches, methodologies and controversies within that response. Includes chapters on: literacy and older adults; health and ageing within ethnic minorities; gender and non-state pensions; groupwork and professional attitudes to old age; the geography of private residential care; policy development at grassroots level; a psychosocial model of dementia; nutrition; the Gloucester study of caring for elderly people at home; and resources, needs and outcomes in community services.
Ageing, recent advances and creative responses
- Editor:
- BUTLER Alan
- Publisher:
- Croom Helm/British Society of Gerontology
- Publication year:
- 1985
- Pagination:
- 311p., tables, bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London