Measuring, understanding and improving wellbeing among older people. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sefa Awaworyi Churchill, Lisa Farrell, Samuelson Appau.
• Editors: Churchill, Sefa Awaworyi; Farrell, Lisa; Appau, Samuelson
• Contents: Chapter 1: Wellbeing Among Older People: An Introduction.- Chapter 2: Empowering the Independence of Older People with Everyday Technologies.- Chapter 3: Investigating the Relationship between Housing Insecurity and Wellbeing.- Chapter 4: Social Support and Wellbeing Among Older Australians.- Chapter 5: Gambling and Subjective Wellbeing of Older Australians.- Chapter 6: Employment Types and Subjective Wellbeing: Evidence from the English Longitudinal Survey of Ageing.- Chapter 7: Height and Health Among Older Chinese.- Chapter 8: Ethnic Diversity, Prejudice and Wellbeing Among Older Chinese.- Chapter 9: Witchcraft Accusations and the Social Exclusion of the Elderly in Northern Ghana: Understanding How Cultural Discourses and Practices Affect the Wellbeing of the Elderly.- Chapter 10: Housing and Ageing Well.- Chapter 11: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness: Examining the role of personal and country-level freedom in well-being.- Chapter 12: Innovation and Subjective Wellbeing Among Older People.- Chapter 13: Improving the Wellbeing of Old People: Thoughts and Reflections.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 305.26; Older people -- Social conditions; Older people -- Services for; Older people -- Research; Well-being -- Age factors; Happiness in old age
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789811523533
• Related ISBNs: 9789811523526
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