This book explores the issue of global ageing and its impact on different nation states across the world. It is in three parts: the first part sets...

This book explores the relationship between globalisation and global changes in populational structures across the world. The book begins by survey...

This book provides an overview of children's kindergarten readiness with a focus on reports describing data from the 2009 cohort of the Head Start ...

Fourteen-year-old Julie starts crying on Monday when things go badly at school. Although cheered up by her dog, Jessie, things are not much better ...

Part of the Department of Labor's (DOL) mission is to promote the retirement security of America’s workers, a goal that has become increasingly cha...

In 2014, the federal government will forgo an estimated $17.45 billion in tax revenue from IRAs, which Congress created to ensure equitable tax tre...

Children's work is a controversial subject both in the sciences of sociology and history. It does not accord well with the modern idea of a good ch...

The healthy human brain contains tens of billions of neurons, specialized cells that process and transmit information via electrical and chemical s...

This book explores the theoretical issues inherent in exploring later life in modern society. To deal effectively with the challenges created by po...

Health, care and welfare have emerged as key vehicles used to legitimise and position the identities that older people adopt in contemporary modern...

Marriage has historically helped protect the financial health of couples and surviving spouses in old age. Based on their marriage, and independent...

This monograph reviews the epidemiological, demographic, and biological basis of population models of human mortality. These investigations were mo...

Foster children, often being removed from neglectful or abusive homes, are one of the country's most vulnerable populations. With the often traumat...

Experts have concerns that children with mental health conditions do not always receive appropriate treatment, including concerns about appropriate...

The author has been driving her jeep around India for 15 years. Blessed with a rare historical sensibility, including an eye for architectural deta...

For millions of Americans, the heartbreak of watching a loved one struggle with Alzheimer's disease is a pain they know all too well. Alzheimer's d...

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is one of the largest food and nutrition assistance programs in the United States, feeding millions of chi...

This book is based on a Chinese conception of adolescent development, which is a model that incorporates culture and migration as two essential com...

The Older Americans Act (OAA) is the major federal vehicle for the delivery of social and nutritional services for older persons. These include sup...

The population of adults 65 and older is the fastest growing demographic in the United States. It is estimated that by 2030, drivers over 65 will r...

Studies find that effective physician-patient communication has specific benefits such as, patients are more likely to adhere to treatment and have...

"The miracle of the preserved word, in whatever medium--print, audio text, video recording, digital exchange--means that it may transfer into new t...

In this book, the authors present current research on the challenges, practices and cultural influences of parenting. Topics discussed in this comp...

Each day, the safety and well-being of children across the Nation are threatened by child abuse and neglect. Many of these children live in homes w...