W. Andrew Achenbaum is professor of social work and history at the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Houston, where he holds the Gerson and Sabina David Professorship in Global Aging. He is also a fellow at the Institute for Spirituality and Health and the John P. Mc Govern M.D. Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit at the University of Texas Medical Center. His books include
Social Security: Visions and Revisions;
Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science; and
Older Americans, Vital Communities: Toward a Bold Vision of Societal Aging.
11 Ebooks de W. Andrew Achenbaum
W. Andrew Achenbaum: Robert N. Butler, MD
Robert Neil Butler (1927–2010) was a scholar, psychiatrist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author who revolutionized the way the world thinks about aging and the elderly. One of the first psychiatrists t …
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W. Andrew Achenbaum: Old Age in the New Land
Originally published in 1978. Drawing on a wide range of sources from social, intellectual, and political history, Old Age in the New Land analyzes the changing fates and fortunes of America’s elderl …
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€50.14
Robert Kastenbaum & Thomas Cole: Voices and Visions of Aging
A critical gerontology requires more than a simple elaboration of existing humanistic scholarship on aging. This exceptional new work introduces a basis for genuine dialogue across humanistic, scient …
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€104.99
W. Andrew Achenbaum: Older Americans, Vital Communities
This thought-provoking work grapples with the vast range of issues associated with the aging population and challenges people of all ages to think more boldly and more creatively about the relationsh …
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€33.95
William L. Randall & Barbara Lewis: Fairy Tale Wisdom
2023 Nautilus Gold Award Winner Later life, for all the challenges and changes that come with it, is a time to embark upon a uniquely exciting adventure. It is, in m …
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€9.49
W. Andrew Achenbaum: Safeguarding Social Security for Future Generations
This book offers a unique multigenerational approach to saving Social Security. Public programs have adapted to societal aging, but fears overwhelm hopes for Social Security’s future prospects. Conse …
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€43.91
W. Andrew Achenbaum: Safeguarding Social Security for Future Generations
This book offers a unique multigenerational approach to saving Social Security. Public programs have adapted to societal aging, but fears overwhelm hopes for Social Security’s future prospects. Conse …
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€43.69
W. Andrew Achenbaum: Soulful Aging
This book seeks to map out the parameters and boundaries of soulful aging and explores philosophical and theological perspectives on the way we grow older. It extends work in the behavioural and soci …
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€64.00
W. Andrew Achenbaum: Soulful Aging
This book seeks to map out the parameters and boundaries of soulful aging and explores philosophical and theological perspectives on the way we grow older. It extends work in the behavioural and soci …
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€64.26
W. Andrew Achenbaum & Vern L. Bengtson: Changing Contract across Generations
Generational conflict has attracted considerable attention in the media and within academic circles during the past decade. At the center of this collection of papers analyzing various facets of that …
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€63.74
W. Andrew Achenbaum & Vern L. Bengtson: Changing Contract across Generations
Generational conflict has attracted considerable attention in the media and within academic circles during the past decade. At the center of this collection of papers analyzing various facets of that …
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€64.06
