TY - BOOK AU - Kahana,Jeffrey Steven AU - Kahana,Eva TI - Disability and aging: learning from both to empower the lives of older adults T2 - Disability in society SN - 9781626376519 AV - HV1568 .K335 2017 U1 - 362.4084/6 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Boulder, Colorado PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc. KW - Older people with disabilities KW - Aging KW - Disabilities KW - People with disabilities KW - Age factors in disease KW - Adaptability (Psychology) KW - Quality of life KW - Disabled Persons KW - Age Factors KW - psychology KW - Adaptation, Psychological KW - Quality of Life KW - Personnes âgées handicapées KW - Vieillissement KW - Handicap KW - Personnes handicapées KW - Maladies KW - Facteurs liés à l'âge KW - Adaptation (Psychologie) KW - Qualité de la vie KW - quality of life KW - aat KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - Social Security KW - bisacsh KW - Social Services & Welfare KW - fast KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The world of late-life disability -- Contextualizing aging and disability -- Learning from gerontology -- A life course perspective -- Adventurous aging through international travel -- Managing the physical environment -- Enhancing care in the nursing home environment -- The experience of disability at the end of life -- Toward better public policies -- The promise of convergence in gerontology and disability studies N2 - What is the lived experience of previously healthy older adults as they face disability in late life, and how is disability assimilated in their identity? How do prevailing practices facilitate-or limit-options for elders living with new disabilities? To address these questions, Jeffrey Kahana and Eva Kahana uniquely synthesize disability and gerontological perspectives to explore both the unfolding challenges of aging and the practices and policies that can enhance the lives of older adults UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1514775 ER -