Perspectives on Later Life

Perspectives on Later Life looks at interdependency, social living, family conflict, social isolation and social networks, and loss and grieving. Issues of staff training, support and morale are covered in some depth. ... exposes the inadequacy of training and support to staff based on outdated material reflecting out-dated attitudes ... The emphasis on the primacy of individual experience gives the book a particular relevance in the customer-oriented world of community care with its focus on individual user need, choice and advocacy rights. Community Care Contents:

• New Understandings of Later Life: Practice and Service Implications
• Aspects of Development in Later Lifes
• Different Living Environments of Older Peoples
• Later Life in Social Contexts
• Special Difficulties in Adjustments
• Loss and Bereavements
• I nformal Cares
• The Contributions and Needs of Formal Carerss