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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Chapter 1. This Strange Phenomenon -- The As Yet Unpinned Subject -- To What Extent Are We Willing to Allow Parentalist Stances by Our Government into Our Lives? -- Should Reason, and Our Fealty to It, Blind Us to the Human Position of "Unreason"? -- Should "Undesirables" Be "Dealt with" through Law? -- Mentally Competent Seniors Who Are Perceived to Self-Neglect: A Composite -- Scope -- Why Should We Focus on Mentally Competent Seniors Who Are Perceived to Self-Neglect? -- The Approach: Descriptive with an Excusing Condition -- Chapter 2. Fuzzy Borders -- Incompetency as Political Problem -- Fissures in Rules and Reason -- Competence, Capacity, Self-Neglect, Elder Abuse, and Seniors -- Mental Competence -- Capacity -- Self-Neglect and Elder Abuse -- Seniors -- Confusion on the Front Lines -- Chapter 3. Values of the Body Politic -- The Right to Be Let Alone -- Autonomy as a Check against Unwanted Reach of the State -- OK, Political Values Are Important, but There Is Still a Problem with My Parent (or Neighbor, or...) -- Chapter 4. What Can Be Done? -- Perpetrators and Victims -- Sometimes It's Not Who They Are or What They Are, but Where They Are -- Do They Live Alone? -- Interior or Exterior? -- Housing Density -- Legal Interests in Residence -- From Whence Do the Possibilities Arise? -- State Governments -- Federal Government -- Legal Theories That Might Apply, Given the Right Set of Facts -- Actions against the Mentally Competent Senior Who Is Perceived to Self-Neglect -- Actions against Someone Else -- Choices Are Thin -- Chapter 5. What Should Be Done? -- Undesirables, and Law as "the Great Mucilage -- General Policy Principles -- Policy Considerations -- What Does Not Work -- What Might Work -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Le vieillissement de la population française est un facteur essentiel de l'évolution sociale et politique. Le groupe des seniors se caractérise par l'importance de la confiance politique dans le choix électoral.

Le vieillissement de la population française est un facteur essentiel de l'évolution sociale et politique. Le groupe des seniors se caractérise par l'importance de la confiance politique dans le choix électoral.

Le nombre de personnes qui ne sont pas satisfaites de leur sommeil s'accroît avec l'âge. La difficulté à s'endormir, les réveils nocturnes fréquents et durables, l'éveil précoce le matin sont courants après 60 ans. La consommation de somnifères augmente en parallèle dans cette tranche d'âge, au risque d'induire des effets secondaires importants. Et pourtant les modifications de la structure du sommeil réellement liées au vieillissement physiologique sont discrètes. Ces troubles peuvent souvent s'améliorer avec une bonne hygiène du sommeil, une alimentation adaptée, une exposition suffisante à la lumière et une activité physique. Il n'en reste pas moins vrai que certaines pathologies susceptibles de perturber le sommeil sont plus fréquentes chez les seniors. Il convient de les diagnostiquer et de les traiter au mieux. En effet, un sommeil de mauvaise qualité et l'installation d'insomnies chroniques ont des effets néfastes sur les fonctions cognitives, l'humeur, la qualité de vie et plus généralement la santé des seniors et de leur entourage.

Dying and death are parts of the life and are unique and personal to everyone. People are afraid of death, often due the fear of the unknown, suffering and loss of the quality of life. Death as such is affecting seniors most, which is, of course; relating to the life cycle. With ageing people are clearly aware of the irreversibility of this cycle and especially in cases, when decreasing of quality of their lives is linked with hospitalization or other forms of social care, which are requiring them to leave their home and social environment. Palliative care is applied in the terminal stages of the disease in present time and the process of dying is an integral part of nursing care. Seniors assess life via the quality of life. This quality of life is judged on its own values, which are in different order for everyone: health, social networking, free time activities or financial situation. Hospitalization of the senior often leads to social isolation, which in many cases ends with social death, and it usually comes much earlier than biological death. The aim of the paper is to draw the attention of the professional and general public to the phenomenon of social isolation and social death of seniors, which in our society, and not only in Slovakia, is beginning to emerge as a more and more current issue.

Many studies have examined issues of youth and public spaces; however, less attention has been devoted to seniors and their navigation and experience of community spaces, particularly in relation to their sense of inclusion in, or exclusion from, consumptive spaces. This article explores the everyday experiences of seniors in four Australian shopping centres, two in Melbourne and two in Hobart. Based on a survey of 260 seniors (the majority aged 75 years or more), respondents' perceptions of this environment are considered, including the reasons for visiting the shopping centre, and the challenges of accessing and negotiating the shopping centre 'terrain'. The research findings indicate that how seniors engage with and navigate the shopping centre is influenced not only by the nature of the space itself, but also by their personal historical and cultural experiences. Where and why seniors choose to 'hang out' in shopping centres has implications for research into the social landscapes of ageing, along with public policy and shopping centre procedures. There is a need to consider both the social and physical well-being of older people in the shopping centre locus, and to take positive steps towards improving and enhancing their experience in an environment that is often used to provide a range of experiences that go beyond mere 'retail therapy'.