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Changes and challenges in later life: learning from experience
- Editor:
- CRAIG Yvonne Joan
- Publisher:
- Third Age Press
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 148p.,list of orgs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Aims to encourage the self confidence of older people in meeting most of the major personal and social challenges of later life, as well as to offer information, advice and ideas for self help. Includes sections on: making the most of change; carers; neighbours; the right retirement home; mistreatment and neglect; and legal rights and remedies.
Elder abuse and mediation: exploratory studies in America, Britain and Europe
- Author:
- CRAIG Yvonne Joan
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1997
- Pagination:
- 229p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Part 1 looks at the social confluence of elder abuse and mediation and contains chapters on: theories of interrelational conflict and relational justice in later life; rights-based mediation as a minimal form of social intervention; and participatory action research into the unresolved conflicts of elder relations. Part 2 examines the social construction of elder abuse and mediation in the United States and includes sections on: American elder care and elder rights; Californian long term care and institutional elder abuse; and Atlanta and Kansas community mediation and elder abuse. Part 3 is on the social development of elder abuse and mediation services in Britain and Europe and includes chapters on: the British Elder Mediation Project; elder abuse and mediation in Norway; and insights and initiatives with European perspectives.