Health & Medicine / Health / Aging

This book explores the complex connections between the memories, emotions, and objects that hold special meaning for us across the years.

The fourth edition of Dying and Death in Canada explores how the intensely personal experience of dying and death is shaped by society and culture, with new discussions of MAID and COVID-19.

Ageism at Work looks at how ageism plays out in the labour market and how it intersects with sexism from the perspective of both older workers and employers.

By focusing on the humane aspects of social palliation, this book foregrounds sacred traditions to illustrate their potential to evoke conversations across socio-political boundaries on what it is like to live and die in the contemporary world.

Plotting new directions for both organizations and employees, authors Lisa Taylor and Fern Lebo explore the opportunities longer working life expectancy promises.

Geriatric Psychiatry is a succinct and advanced review of geriatric psychiatry that will help clinicians meet the demands of an aging population.

The Silvering Screen makes a timely attempt to counter the fear of aging implicit in these readings by proposing alternate ways to value getting older.

"This volume invites readers to re-imagine the losses of aging by listening to the views of elders themselves. Researchers, students of aging, and policy makers should find this work most enlightening." - Athena McLean, Central Michigan University

"Students of many ilks will benefit from re-imagining Alzheimer's from the perspective of affected elders and their caregivers." - Peter Whitehouse, Case Western Reserve University

"With this collection of imaginative, wide-ranging essays, Stephen Katz secures his place as his generation's foremost proponent of cultural aging." - W. Andrew Achenbaum, University of Houston

Over the Next Hill addresses an understudied but fast growing group in our society—the elderly.

This volume combines ten papers on various aspects of aging in Canada.