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Mental Health in Later Life : Taking a Life Course Approach /

Focusing on mental health rather than mental illness, this book adopts a lifecourse approach to understanding mental health and wellbeing in later life. Well-respected author and scholar Alisoun Milne explores the influences of lifecourse experiences, structural inequalities, socio-political context...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Milne, Alisoun (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Demography, topography and mental health problems in later life
  • Mental health, psychological well-being, successful ageing and quality of life
  • The life course, inequalities and mental health in later life
  • The impact of age-related risks and inequalities on mental health in later life
  • Socio-economic disadvantage and poverty
  • Abuse, mistreatment and neglect
  • The fourth age, frailty and transitions
  • The mental health and well-being of people living with dementia
  • Conceptualising dementia
  • Promotion and prevention.