Tony Gilbert

Margaret Todd

The NHS and Community Care Act has radically changed the nature of service provision and the relationship between professionals and service users. This raises issues which are of crucial importance to all health-care professionals or students who work with people with a learning disability. The authors of this book examine these issues, and the theoretical concepts underpinning them, from a practical perspective.

Practice Issues in Health Settings

Learning Disabilities

Jason L. Powell

Viewing ageing and identity through the critical lens of both contemporary gerontology theory and postmodernist concepts, the contributing scholars examine a vast range of issues: from disability to clothing; from ageing, health and education to social philosophies and meanings of ageing; and from auto-ethnographic methodologies to rethinking post-modern theories of ageing. These rich examples demonstrate that traditional biomedical models of ageing can no longer give universal and totalising views of ageing. The key issue of the book is to point to the varied social and cultural representations and experiences of ageing and identity formation. The book celebrates the diversity of older people, challenging the bio-medical equation of 'ageing as decline' with exciting and alternative theorisations from post-modern gerontology. Further, a post-modern approach helps to debunk and shatter fixed and limited perceptions of ageing by advocating an alternative expression of ageing; the conceptual and theoretical focus on ageing identity illuminates the self is fluid, changeable and dynamic. This book engages social theory with aging identity by analysing the challenges and opportunities afforded to older people in the 'contemporary age of ageing'.

A Dialogue with Postmodernism

Aging Identity

This is a story about a boy and his cloud.How does a child deal with the death of a loved one? This tender and thoughtful story captures the innocent mind-set of a six year old boy as he struggles to cope with the death of his mother and his fathers depression.50% of all royalties from the sale of this book are being donated to the charity, 'Winston's Wish'.This edition also includes a sneak peak at the eBook version of 'Hugo - A Quest for King Borin'.

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