This is the first book to address the design needs of older people in the outdoor environment. It provides information on design principles essential to built environment professionals who want to provide for all users of urban space and who wish to achieve sustainability in their designs. Part one examines the changing experiences of people in the outdoor environment as they age and discusses existing outdoor environments and the aspects and features that help or hinder older people from using and enjoying them. P
Resilience in Aging: Concepts, Research, and Outcomes
The many significant technological and medical advances of the 21st century cannot overcome the escalating risk posed to older adults by such stressors as pain, weakness, fatigue, depression, anxiety, memory and other cognitive deficits, hearing loss, visual impairment, isolation, marginalization, and physical and mental illness. In order to overcome these and other challenges, and to maintain as high a quality of life as possible, older adults and the professionals who treat them need to promote and develop the capacity for resilience, which is innate in all of us to some degree.
This is an entirely new work rather than a mere revision, featuring more than twice as many articles as the original (well over 700 as compared to just over 300) as well as a more definite global view of the topics covered when compared to the Eurocentric nature of the older set.
More Magazine is written for women of an older generation who want MORE than just good fashion or housekeeping advice. For women who have already accomplished raising their children or success in their careers, More magazine offers new inspiration and ideas for making the most of life, today and in the future! Since More is geared toward older women, what readers will find in every issue is not page after page of thin, beautiful, young models so much as ROLE MODELS of a certain age who can speak candidly about starting a business later in life, moving beyond the loss of a loved one, and other issues of interest
More Magazine is written for women of an older generation who want MORE than just good fashion or housekeeping advice. For women who have already accomplished raising their children or success in their careers, More magazine offers new inspiration and ideas for making the most of life, today and in the future! Since More is geared toward older women, what readers will find in every issue is not page after page of thin, beautiful, young models so much as ROLE MODELS of a certain age ...
