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This volume and its companion, The new dynamics of ageing volume 1, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews of the very latest research on ageing. Together they report the outcomes of the most concerted investigation ever undertaken into both the influence shaping the changing nature of ageing and its consequences for individuals and society. This book concentrates on four major themes: autonomy and independence in later life, biology and ageing, food and nutrition and representation of old age. Each chapter provides a state of the art topic summary as well as reporting the essential research findings from New Dynamics of Ageing research projects. There is a strong emphasis on the practical implications of ageing and how evidence-based policies, practices and new products can produce individual and societal benefits.
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Table of contents
- THE NEW DYNAMICS OF AGEING: Volume 2
- Contents
- List of tables and figures
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- Part One: Autonomy and independence in later life
- 2. Sleep and autonomy in later life: the SomnIA project
- 3. Negotiating unfamiliar environments
- Financial elder abuse
- 5. Maintaining dignity and independence
- 6. Families and caring in South Asian communities
- Part Two: Biological perspectives
- 7. Understanding immunesenescence
- 8. Towards understanding the biological drivers of cell ageing
- Part Three: Nutrition in later life
- 10. NANA: a tale of ageing and technology
- 11. Combating malnutrition in hospitals
- 11. Migration and nutrition
- Part Four: Representations of old age
- 12. Representing self â representing ageing
- 13. Ageing, fiction, narrative exchange and everyday life
- 14. Narrative representations of the self: encounters with contemporary visual art
- 15. The place of theatre in representations of ageing
- 16. Conclusion
- Index