Dependency or Interdependency in Old Age

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Dependency, Interdependency and Autonomy; An Introduction

      • Joep Munnichs

      Pages 3-8

3. Methodological Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Dependency and the Elderly: Problems of Conceptualisation and Measurement

      • John Bond

      Pages 11-23

   3. Health Criteria for Independency of Older People

      • Anneke van der Plaats

      Pages 24-34

   4. Criteria of Independent (Autonomous) Life in Old Age

      • Paul Paillat

      Pages 35-41

4. Conceptual and empirical studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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   2. Psychological studies

      1. Memory Disorders as Criteria of Dependency in Old People: Evaluation and Measurement

         • Liliane Israel

         Pages 45-53

      2. Comments on ‘Memory Disorders as Criteria of Dependency in Old People: Evaluation and Measurement’

         • Han Diesfeldt

         Pages 54-55

      3. Forced and Autonomous Detachment, Their Relationships to Coping Style and Independence in Later Adulthood

         • Joel Shanan, Hannah Weihl

         Pages 56-70

      4. Dependency — Due To Lack of Individual or Environmental Resources?

         • Erik Solem

         Pages 71-79

      5. The Impact of Institutionalization on Expressing Needs and Wishes

         • Aase-Marit Nygard

         Pages 80-87

      6. Dependency on Activity Before, During and After Activating Treatment in a Home for Aged People

         • Else Melin

         Pages 88-95

   3. Sociological studies

      1. Some Remarks on the Concepts of Need and Health and Their Treatment in Gerontological Research

         • Anton Amann, Gerhard Majce

         Pages 99-117

      2. Socio-economic Criteria of Dependence of Old Persons

         • Andrzej Tymowski

         Pages 118-124

      3. Independency in Old Age — Some Architectural Aspects

         • Arne Clevestam

         Pages 125-134

      4. Poverty and Old Age

         • Ursula Christiansen

         Pages 135-144

5. Interpretative and evaluative studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. That was Your Life: A Biographical Approach to Later Life

      • Malcolm Johnson

      Pages 147-161

Although this monograph "Dependency o r interdependency in old age" is not the first publication o f the European Social Sciences Research C- mittee (ESSRC) o f the International Association o f Gerontology, I a m happy, as former chairman o f the Committee (1964-1975), to introduce this book to the readers, together with the present chairman. So far the activities o f the Committee have consisted o f co-operating in organizing the scientific programme o f the tri-annual congresses o f the International Association o f Gerontology (lAG), and in organizing sm- ler o r bigger symposia and colloquia for social gerontologists. Sometimes these meetings were mainly organized for European researchers only, sometimes several concurrent colloquia took place in which Americans and o t h e r non-Europeans participated. T h e Committee, the oldest o f the lAG, was established at a scientific meeting in 1954 at Sheffield (U. K. ) A f t e r that year colloquia were held in 1956 near Copenhagen 1 (Denmark), in 1957 at M e r a n o2 (Italy), in 1959 at Assisi (Italy), in 1960 a t Berkeley (Cal.

• age
• autonomy
• coping
• evaluation
• gerontology
• health
• memory
• relationships
• research
• treatment

• Psychologisch Laboratorium, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  Joep M. A. Munnichs

• Gerontological Centre Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  Joep M. A. Munnichs, Wim J. A. Heuvel

• Institute of Social Medicine, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

  Wim J. A. Heuvel

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