Bookedited by Joep M.A. Munnichs, Wim J.A. Heuvel.
Summary: Although this monograph "Dependency or interdependency in old age" is not the first publication of the European Social Sciences Research Committee (ESSRC) of the International Association of Gerontology, I am happy, as former chairman of the Committee (1964-1975), to introduce this book to the readers, together with the present chairman. So far the activities of the Committee have consisted of cooperating in organizing the scientific programme of the tri-annual congresses of the International Association of Gerontology (lAG), and in organizing smaller or 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 other non-Europeans participated. The Committee, the oldest of the lAG, was established at a scientific meeting in 1954 at Sheffield (U.K.) After that year colloquia were held in 1956 near Copenhagen 1 (Denmark), in 1957 at Merano 2 (Italy), in 1959 at Assisi (Italy), in 1960 at Berkeley (Cal.)
Contents:
A. Introduction
1. Dependency, interdependency and autonomy; an introduction
B. Methodological studies
2. Dependency and the elderly: problems of conceptualisation and measurement
3. Health criteria for independency of older people
4. Criteria of independent (autonomous) life in old age
C. Conceptual and empirical studies
Psychological studies
5. Memory disorders, as criteria of dependency in old people: evaluation and measurement
6. Comments on 'memory disorders as criteria of dependency in old people: evaluation and measurement'
7. Forced and autonomous detachment, their relationships to coping style and independence in later adulthood
8. Dependency
due to lack of individual or environmental resources?
9. The impact of institutionalization on expressing needs and wishes
10. Dependency on activity before, during and after activating treatment in a home for aged people
Sociological studies
11. Some remarks on the concepts of need and health and their treatment in gerontological research
12. Socio-economic criteria of dependence of old persons
13. Independency in old age
some architectural aspects
14. Poverty and old age
D. Interpretative and evaluative studies
15. That was your life: a biographical approach to later life
16. The meaning of dependency.