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Elderly carers: the need for appropriate intervention
- Author:
- WENGER G. Clare
- Publisher:
- University College of North Wales. Centre for Social Policy Research and Develop
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 30p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Bangor
Paper exploring the extent and nature of caring after retirement age.
Housing initiatives for older people: papers from a seminar organised by the Centre for Social Gerontology, University of Keele ... 10-12 April 1989
- Editors:
- BERNARD Miriam, FLYNN Tony
- Publisher:
- Beth Johnson Foundation/University of Keele. Centre for Social Gerontology
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 87p.
- Place of publication:
- Stoke-on-Trent
Contains papers on: the role of the Housing Corporation; housing needs of elderly people in ordinary housing; housing elderly Asian people; sheltered housing and the role of the private sector; and retirement villages and communities in the USA and Europe. Also looks at local authority initiatives in Glasgow, Strathclyde and Stoke-on-Trent.
Growing old in the twentieth century
- Editor:
- JEFFERYS Margot
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication year:
- 1989
- Pagination:
- 270p.,tables,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Provides a demographic overview of the major features of the changing age profile of Britain. Examine patterns of retirement, and the changing formation of ideas about old age during the twentieth century. Looks at various aspects of resource distribution after retirement. The final section deals with the social lives of older people and with networks of support, including those in rural