By Yoshiko Matsumoto
Faces of Aging foregrounds a spectrum of elder-centered issues—social task, caregiving, generational bias, suicide, sexuality, and conversation with doctors, to call a few—from the point of view of these who're residing them. The volume's different members signify the fields of sociology, anthropology, drugs, nursing, gerontology, psychology, movie reviews, gender reviews, conversation, and linguistics, supplying a various choice of qualitative experiences of getting older to researchers around the social sciences.
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