Dignity and Old Age

Open up Dignity and Old Age, and youll find a wealth of thoughtful suggestions for how you and others can gain more respect and admiration for your relatives, neighbors, and patients who are in the latter stages of life. Youll examine the word "dignity" as it relates to the worlds elderly population to the fullest and most challenging extent, taking into account cross-cultural, religious, and even literary influences. Throughout this provoking and thorough examination, youll tackle some tough questions, all of which will equip you with the theoretical and practical know-how needed to evoke change and preserve honorable relations with the elderly persons in your professional and personal relationships.The manner in which Dignity and Old Age will help you grow in your relationships with elderly people is twofold--ideally and practically. Youll begin with a revitalizing discussion of concepts that revolve around dignity and the elderly, and from there youll move into the sphere of active practice, gleaning a wide variety of ways you can enhance your affairs with the elderly in health care, social services, government, and retirement entitlements and benefits. Specifically, youll find positive approaches in these and other areas:

• the dignity in old age
• the true meaning of "Quality of Life" in old age
• achieving respect for ethnic elders as a health care provider
• bringing spirituality and community together in the last stage of life
• forming a philanthropic, caring partnership between government and the elderlyIn this insightful volume, youll take an important step forward in creating a more dignified quality of life for the worlds elderly--todays and tomorrows. Overall, youll gain the variety of perspectives necessary to ensure that everyone you come in contact with in casual, legal, leisure, and professional spheres will see you care enough to be concerned with the ideas and practices contained in Dignity and Old Age.