- benzodiazepine hypnotics, known as ‘z’ drugs, have become available for the treatment of poor sleep, anxiety and depression. UK policy has focused on reducing hypnotic prescribing by general practitioners, on encouraging older people who have been on sleeping medication 19 Sleep and autonomy in later life: the SomnIA project for long periods of time to reduce their reliance, and on offering effective non-pharmacological approaches to sleep management, such as cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) (Sivertsen and Nordhus, 2007; Morgan et al, 2012; Venn and Arber, 2012). Older
This volume and its companion, The New Dynamics of Ageing Volume 1, provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary overviews of the very latest research on ageing. Together they report the outcomes of the most concerted investigation ever undertaken into both the influence shaping the changing nature of ageing and its consequences for individuals and society.
This book concentrates on four major themes: autonomy and independence in later life, biology and ageing, food and nutrition and representation of old age. Each chapter provides a state of the art topic summary as well as reporting the essential research findings from New Dynamics of Ageing research projects. There is a strong emphasis on the practical implications of ageing and how evidence-based policies, practices and new products can produce individual and societal benefits.
This unique book represents the first multi-disciplinary examination of ageing, covering everything from basic cell biology, to social participation in later life, to the representations of old age in the arts and literature.
A comprehensive introductory text about the latest scientific evidence on ageing, the book draws on the pioneering New Dynamics of Ageing Programme, the UK’s largest research programme in ageing. This programme brought together leading academics from across the arts and humanities, social and biological sciences and fields of engineering and medical research, to study how ageing is changing and the ways in which this process can be made more beneficial to both individuals and society.
Comprising individual, local, national and global perspectives, this book will appeal to everyone with an interest in one of the greatest challenges facing the world – our own ageing.
Money was already tight for UK families living on a low income before the COVID-19 pandemic, but national lockdowns made life much harder.
Telling the stories of these families, this book exposes the ways that pre-existing inequalities, insecurities and hardships were amplified during the pandemic for families who were already in poverty before COVID-19, as well as those pushed into poverty by the economic fallout it created.
Drawing on the Covid Realities research programme, and developed in partnership with parents and carers, it explores experiences of home-schooling, social security receipt and government, community and charitable support. This book sets out all that is wrong with the status quo, while also offering a powerful agenda for change.
Also see ‘COVID-19 Collaborations: Researching Poverty and Low-Income Family Life during the Pandemic’ (Open Access) to find out more about the challenges of carrying out research during COVID-19.
In the context of recent natural disasters and the increase of global terrorism, there is a need for a greater understanding of the psychosocial impact of such events on the individuals and communities involved. This understanding can also enhance the support offered to people sho have to face trauma in their individual lives. Those who provide such a response need to develop their skills in this area of work. They too need to feel that they are supported in their work.
This revised and expanded edition of a highly successful book consolidates the core elements of good proctice while bringing theory and practice issues up to date. As with the first and second editions, this book can be used as a guide for best practice and as a resource for instant reference when staff are faced with responding to traumatic incidents. It also provides up-to-date case studies, drawing on the author’s knowledge and experience and points the way for further, more specialised study. The book identifies core elements that are common to most traumatic events; discusses practical methods of intervention that are based on analysis of contemporary research and best practice in a multidisciplinary context; shows how the skills discussed can be transferred to individual clinical practice; addresses the needs of responders and the responsibility of organisations to provide a ‘duty of care’ for those who are exposed to trauma in their occupational roles and presents a modular programme of training, devised by the author, to prepare responders in the pre-crisis period.
Order from chaos is essential reading for all those who are or may be involved in supporting those who are experiencing the impact of trauma in their lives. It is also an invaluable resource for trainers in the field, and for social work and health and social care students and their teachers.
Focusing on mental health rather than mental illness, this book adopts a lifecourse approach to understanding mental health and wellbeing in later life. Well-respected author and scholar Alisoun Milne explores the influences of lifecourse experiences, structural inequalities, socio-political context, history, gender and age related factors and engages with new ways of thinking about preventing mental ill health and promoting mental health in later life. Drawing together material from a number of different fields, the book analyses the meaning and determinants of mental health among older populations and offers a critical review of the lifecourse, ageing and mental health discourse for students, professionals, policy makers and researchers.
related to abuse A significant number of posts discussed kinks or fantasies that users connected to their past experiences of sexual violence. The relationship between sexual violence and the development of particular ‘kinks’ has long been noted in the scholarly literature ( Hammers, 2019 ), and were of significant concern in the analysed posts. For instance, one Redditor described being sexually victimised by their father who would give them sleeping medication prior to abuse, and she explained that she now seeks out pornography involving sleeping women. Another
, reported diseases at 67 was a very strong predictor but quite the contrary for men. Blood pressure and sleep medication were strong pre- dictors for men but not for women. Psychological factors were more frequently included in the predictive models for women than for men. Social factors were of comparatively less importance for both men and women. There was greater accuracy in the prediction of health for women. The individual variables most often included in the predictive model for women were cop- ing and reported health at age 67. For men, blood pressure, sleep
identity of continuous guardian was pronounced across the interviews, regardless of how constrained the carer’s days and nights actually were. For example, Nicole used sleep medications for herself at night, and was subsequently able to manage her needs as a ‘sleeper’. Yet, she still considered herself to be responsible as ‘guardian’ for the majority of the time: ‘So, my sleep patterns when Derek was actually deteriorating, I wasn’t aware quite often of how he was because the zopiclone would take the edge off my alertness, and so it was only the last few nights that he
diet, physical exercise, smoking cessation and restricting alcohol consumption. A major contribution of the research reported in Chapter Two is to switch the focus from sleep purely as a physiological process to the societal factors that influence its quality and duration. For older people living in the community, social aspects include the meaning of napping, caregiving for partners, and the strategies they use to optimise their sleep, alongside their general reluctance to take sleeping medication. In contrast, care home residents usually lack control over
