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"An American anthropologist, Jennie Keith . . . went to live for twelve months in a French housing scheme for retired people and as a participant observer conducted a study in community creation. This book, in which she describes and analyses her experience, is a delight. It is scholarly and

Focusing on the reality of the experience of old age from a social constructivist perspective, as opposed to the stereotyped image, this text argues that it is affected by deeply ingrained social attitudes whereby the old are separated from society and associated with the fear of death.

Books about Working with Older People: The practitioner and the elderly

This book is an ethnographic study of an old age home in Israel that sheds light on the existential experience of elderly retirees. Hazan looks carefully at the universal concerns of old age, specifically examining the nature of everyday life in the institutional setting. He shows the workings of the

Books about Toward an Independent Old Age