Overview
- describes recent demographic trends and considers their implications for how individuals and their families plan and prepare for their later adult life
- reviews health care issues and concerns for the elderly and addresses strategies for self-health promotion and illness prevention
- provides examples illustrating the uses and abuses of data to promote partisan views and agendas
- outlines a conceptual framework that can be uses to understand problem solving and decisionmaking by individuals and family groups
- presents a model that explores family decisionmaking, focusing on the conditions under which decisions are made
- presents findings from a study of early adolescentsāperceptions of their role in family decisionmakingThe book closes with an upbeat discussion of possible solutions to current pathologies affecting human societies and cultures. Professionals who work with families will find this book an enlightening and encouraging guide for helping families cope with the myriad issues and choices they face in planning for their futures.
This book title, American Families and the Future (Analyses of Possible Destinies), ISBN: 9781138966543, by Roma S Hanks, Marvin B Sussman, Barbara H Settles, published by Taylor & Francis (November 24, 2016) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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