Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 9 Issue 4

Promoting excellence in services through research, policy and practice

Subjects:

Table of contents

Developing services for people with dementia: Findings from research in a rural area

Ann McDonald, Becky Heath

Services for people with dementia in the UK have developed piecemeal in the context of wider agency agendas. Health and social care agencies located in rural areas face particular…

Sociological perspectives on the baby boomers: An exploration of social change

Rebecca Leach, Chris Phillipson, Simon Biggs, Annemarie Money

The ‘baby‐boom’ generation has emerged as a significant group in debates focusing on population change. The demographic context concerns the increase in the birth rate across…

The retention of older people in longitudinal studies: A review of the literature

Suneeta Bhamra, Anthea Tinker, Gill Mein, Richard Ashcroft, Janet Askham

Research that follows people over a period of time (longitudinal or panel studies) is increasingly recognised as of great importance in helping us to understand the ageing process…

Death, dying and end‐of‐life care

June Leishman

Death is a certainty for all of us. For many old people in Western society age, illness and social death are inextricably linked. It is predicted that the number of people in the…

Cover of Quality in Ageing and Older Adults

ISSN:

1471-7794

Online date, start – end:

2000

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited

Open Access:

hybrid

Editor:

  • Prof Fiona Poland