Ageing

Preface. 1. Introduction A. Butler Part One: The Overview 2. Ageing - Whose Creative Response A. Tinker 3. The Ageing Class: Vanguard of the Evolution E. Midwinter Part Two: Leisure, Friendship and Association 4. Listening to the Voices of Older Women: Creativity and Social Work Responses A. Froggatt 5. Voluntary Association and the Social Construction of Old Age D. Jerrome 6. Managing Everyday Life: The Trivial Round Made Significant S.O. Daatland 7. Constraints to Creativity: The Case of Leisure Facility Managers M. Bernard 8. The St John's Senior Centre: A Creative Development V. Ivers 9. Intimacy at a Distance Under the Microscope A. M. Warnes, D. Howes and L. Took 10. Leisure Activities in the Elderly in Urban Shopping Centres: A Case Study Analysis M.J. MacLean, D. Brown and P. Sijpkes Part Three: Aspects of Social Welfare 11. Short-Term Funded Projects: A Creative Response to an Ageing Population? A. Osborn 12. Innovation in the Care of the Elderly: The Role of Joint Finance E. Ferlie, D. Challis and B. Davies 13. Welfare Benefits and the Elderly: Some Preliminary Results from the G.L.C. Take-up Campaign C.R. Victor 14. Sheltered Housing: Some Unanswered Questions G. Fennell 15. Sheltered Housing: The Warden's View C. Phillipson and P. Strang 16. Report of a Pilot Study of Delayed Discharges from Hospital: Liverpool 1983-4 R.M. Eley and L.M. Middleton 17. Ageing in Turkey: Patterns, Provisions and Prospects C.S. Gilleard, A.A. Gurkan and E. Gilleard Part Four: Developments in Psychology 18. Progress Towards the Elucidation of Early Dementia: A Community Study N. Wood, J.R.M. Copeland, R.T. Searle, C. McWilliam, M.E. Dewey, D.M. Forshaw, V.K. Sharma, P. Saunders, J. Collins and C. Clulow 19. The Contribution of the National Adult Reading Test to the Detection of Dementia Amongst Community Dwelling Old People M.G. Binks and A.D.M. Davies 20. Life Stress and Depression in the Elderly: Experiences from a Community Study S.J. Wilkinson, O. James and A.D.M. Davies 21. Sleep and the Elderly: Some Psychological Dimensions and their Implications for Treatment K. Gledhill 22. Attributions of Staff Working with the Elderly: A Pilot Study C. Martin 23. Social Situations and Self-Images of Older Women O. Cibulski 24. A Brief Self-Report Scale for Assessing Personal Engagement in the Elderly: Reliability and Validity K. Morgan, H.D. Dallosso and S.B.J. Ebrahim. Details of Contributors. Index.