This paper is concerned with the interlinked issues of citizenship and the structured dependency of older people within Social Gerontology. It argues that implicit in much British Social Gerontology is a strategy of advancing the wellbeing of elderly people through the extension of citizenship rights. Absence of these rights leads to poverty, exclusion and ageism being commonplace experiences o...

Health and Health Care of HISPANIC/LATINO AMERICAN ELDERS Melissa Talamantes, MS Department of Family and Community Medicine University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio Robert Lindeman, MD New Mexico Geriatric Education Center and Division of Gerontology University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Charles Mouton, MD, MS Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology Department of Family and Commun...

Hui-Chun YU, Xiao-Bing MA , Zhen-Qing WANG, Hui-Jun XU, Ping WANG, Feng-Ping AN, Yu-Chuan HU, Guang-Bin CUI, Xu-Fang BAI, He LI Department of Gerontology, Xiqing Hospital, Tianjin, China Cardiovascular Division of Gerontology, Pingjin Hospital, Logistic University of CAPF, Tianjin, China Postgraduate School of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin, China Department of Radi...

In August 1996, the first members of the European Academy for Medicine of Ageing (EAMA) "were appointed after successfully completing the first advanced postgraduate course for doctors working in medical gerontology. The target group was heterogeneous and included clinicians, researchers, teachers and junior staff with academic potential. The idea for the EAMA was originally created by the Grou...

Age and cumulative advantage/disadvantage theory have obvious logical, theoretical, and empirical connections, because both are inherently and irreducibly related to the passage of time. Over the past 15 years, these connections have resulted in the elaboration and application of the cumulative advantage-disadvantage perspective in social gerontology, especially in relation to issues of heterog...

BACKGROUND Negative views towards ageing and older adults may be a reason why nurses do not choose to work in gerontological nursing. Studying in another cultural context can challenge these views. The Objective was to explore nursing students' views on ageing and older adults before and after a gerontology course held abroad. DESIGN AND METHOD A qualitative approach based on content analysis...