elderly

Presents an introduction to the field of gerontology, looks at careers in gerontology and aging services, and provides information about training and education, salaries, and job outlook.

Contains entries that describe various careers in the field of geriatric care, including creative arts therapists, health advocates, and hospice workers, each with information about job requirements, earnings, work environment, outlook, and other concerns.

Some crazy things happen when a senior citizen comes to stay at the Doyle house.

Describes ways in which young people can help elderly people, including visiting, running errands, adopting a grandfriend, and others.

When seventy-five-year-old Henny Hickathrift runs away from the old people's home, she meets five children and their parents who welcome her into their family.

Seventy-five-year-old Conrad, left alone and grieving after the death of his wife, Rose, learns the precious lesson of reaching out to others, after he spreads the news that he has seen an angel in his overgrown garden.

Looks at senior citizens, focusing on four individuals, with interviews which show that the elderly can't be stereotyped.

Seventeen-year-old Lev Beniov, having been arrested for looting the corpse of a German paratrooper, is given the opportunity to be released from jail if he, along with a soldier imprisoned for desertion, can secure twelve eggs to be used in the colonel's daughter's wedding cake by traversing the dangerous streets of Leningrad.

Presents more than twenty articles and book excerpts on various topics related to aging Americans, including the aging of the Baby Boomers, elder care, retirement, aging workers, government involvement, American perceptions of aging, and new possibilities for the aged.

Dr. Andrew Weil offers a practical approach to aging that explains how to use diet, exercise, and traditions from various cultures around the world to age gracefully and avoid many problems associated with the elderly.