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Last Years of Long Lives - The Larvik Study (Paperback)
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Last Years of Long Lives - The Larvik Study (Paperback)
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The Last Years of Long Lives is a unique account of that period of
old age which precedes death. Based on 400 complete individual
histories and covering a twenty-year period, it looks at the
experiences of people over eighty years old in three important
areas: disability, family life and health care. Using the
life-course approach to research, it reveals rich data about the
contributions of formal and informal care and how life expectancy
and experiences of disability interact with experiences of care.
The reader is invited to conceptualise these phenomena as processes
in continuous time - processes that are sometimes long and complex,
sometimes short and simple - and learns about the four types of
disability career before death. At the same time, the author
presents a three-stage model of informal care and examines the main
patterns of formal service use. The Last Years of Long Lives
presents a new way of looking at old age for students, researchers,
practitioners and policy makers and gives a comprehensive picture
of what has been called 'the fourth age'.
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