Social Forces and Aging

Non-Fiction: Books
Written By Amanda Barusch

  • Title – Gerontological Practice for the 21st Century (10th Edition)

  • Subtitle – An Introduction to Social Gerontology

  • Authors – Robert C. Atchley and Amanda S. Barusch

  • Genre – Psychology & Counseling, Aging, Social Sciences, Sociology

  • Type – Book

  • Publication Date – July 21, 2003

  • Publisher – Cengage Learning

  • Medium – Hardcover

  • Available at – Amazon

  • Link – https://a.co/d/fg3HJOa

  • Synopsis – Atchley and Barusch's interdisciplinary approach has produced a text that provides the concepts, information, insight, and examples students need to achieve a basic understanding of aging as a social process. Covering the physical problems, inner experiences, and instrumental needs of the aging, the text examines aging on both an individual and societal level. It covers major areas of theory, research, social policy, and practice in a clear and organized manner to make social gerontology accessible to students from all backgrounds. This text is the classic book for the course that continually keeps pace with the dramatic changes in the field, including new theories, research, programs, and issues. Atchley and Barusch first examine individual aging-and adaptation to aging in everyday life, then move on to explore the needs and demands that aging, as a phenomenon, presents to society, while also delving into society's response to aging.

Book cover for "Social Forces & Aging: An Introduction to Social Gerontology" by Robert C. Atchley and Amanda S. Barusch, Tenth Edition. Available now on Amazon.
Amanda Barusch

Amanda Barusch has worked as a janitor, exotic dancer, editor, and college professor. She lives in the American West, where she spends as much time as possible on dirt paths. She has an abiding disdain for boundaries and adores ambiguity. Amanda has published eight books of non-fiction, a few poems, and a growing number of short stories. Aging Angry is her first work of creative non-fiction. She uses magical realism to explore deep truths of the human experience in this rapidly changing world.

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