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Ageing well: quality of life in old age
- Author:
- BOWLING Ann
- Publisher:
- Open University Press
- Publication year:
- 2005
- Pagination:
- 273p., bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Maidenhead
This book explores concepts of quality of life in older age in the theoretical literature and presents the views of a national sample of people aged sixty- five years or older. It offers a broad overview of the quality of life experienced by older people in Britain using a number of wide ranging indicators, including: health hobbies and interests; home and neighbourhood; income independence; psychological wellbeing; and social and family relationships.