old age
Robert Southey and his age: ageing, old age and the days of old
... an old age’ (CLRS, ...‘old age … by translating Homer & Horace into very respectable verse’ (CLRS, ...from old age’ did not prevent Southey’s uncle, the clergyman Herbert ...
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Functional Foods, Old Age and Diabetes
... in old age, the following should be mentioned: lowered physical activity, lower production of insulin and insulin resistance, along with the consumption of di- uretics, steroids, phenytoin, niacin, ...
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Old age – „how beautiful to be yourself”
... to old age, among others, being mediated by the media ...of old age, processed, sub- jected to facelift, aestheticitized and rejuvenated, in other words – tailored to suit the expectations of ...
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Exploring the concept of optimal functionality in old age
... (mean age: ...OR old age OR old persons) as it reflects a factor important for mental and physical well-being identified by the older adults ...
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The old age in Polish and American series
... When it comes to the de nition of “old age”, a peculiar chaos may be observed in the reference books. According to Antonii Kępiński (1983), this notion is impos- sible to de ne, because life itself is ...
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The economics of ageing and the political economy of old age
... in old age, as do a small minority who never work at any age and live from unearned ...in old age increases with earnings, job security and occupational ...of old age may ...
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Quality of life measures in old age
... entering old age who are younger, healthier, and wealthier will differ from those much older people who are more likely to experience chronic and degenerative ill health or require palliative ...
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Looking Forward to Care in Old Age
... One key message was that people expect to have their individual needs and preferences accommodated and catered for. This is a generation of people who have generally had choice in most aspects of their lives, from food ...
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LIVING WITH FAMILY OR OLD AGE HOME
... most old-age home habitants have a low family pathology as compared to moderate or high family pathology amongst the elderly living with their ...these old age home habitants have an unstable ...
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Promoting sense of security in old age care
... Having control over economic situations might reduce insecurity for older persons [13], whereas in a caring context relationships with personnel, relatives, and friends were found to be key issues for feeling secure ...
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Samuel Beckett and the contingency of old age
... There is something of a feeling of limbo in the first-person narratives under discussion, but they also arguably display a richer phenomenological texture than Woodward’s description of empty fictions might imply (and ...
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Psychologists' constructions of old age – a discourse analysis
... of old age and its meaning is constructed in ...study old age is considered to be co-constructed between the interviewer and the participants (Potter & Wetherell, ...
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Practical Psychiatry of Old Age, Fifth Edition
... Myths about sexuality and ageing abound. Older people are thought to be no longer interested in sex, post-menopausal women are believed to be incapable of sexual enjoyment, and old men are thought to be incapable ...
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Memory and contemporary city: the feminization of old age
... In this convergence, the collective memory of elderly women from the connivance groups can be conceived as a valuable resource in the struggle to recognize their social role today. That is, for older women, belonging to ...
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Adaptations to aerobic training in old age
... Cardiac output during submaximal exercise is maintained in healthy old age but there is conflicting evidence as to what happens in maximal exercise. Although Rodeheffer et al. (1984) reported that some ...
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Complementing or replacing old age insurance?
... beginning of the 1990s. In March 1993, the RPR-UDF (right-wing) coalition secured a comfortable majority in the parliamentary election. Soon after, the Balladur government presented a reform proposal that was in line ...
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A GOOD OLD AGE: EXPERIENCING A SATISFYING LIFE
... A qualitative ethnographic life history approach was used to thoroughly examine a small number of cases. This ethnography also included a life review in which the participants discussed experiences that revealed in a ...
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Compression and plasticity of old-age mortality
... In addition to the compression of mortality, we examined the compression of morbidity in chapter five. Now that life expectancy is continuously on the rise, it is questioned whether the extra years are lived in good or ...
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SOCIAL ISOLATION IN OLD AGE: CAUSES AND REMEDIES
... To combat social isolation it is significant for the elderly people to take good care of their health and internalize the responsibility and control of their own lives. Those who believe that isolation and loneliness ...
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Insecure old age security
... The purpose of our paper is to explore the consequences of uncertainty about parental old-age consumption on the demand for children when financial capital markets do not exist. Using a dynamic model where ...
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