Book of Donmon Teith

Like many ideas that inform policy, practice and research, ‘transition’ has many meanings. Children make a transition to adulthood, pupils move from primary

Transitions and the life course: Challenging the constructions of 'growing old' explores and challenges dominant interpretations of transitions as they relate t

This open access book examines health trajectories and health transitions at different stages of the life course, including childhood, adulthood and later life.

Rapid population aging, once associated with only a select group of modern industrialized nations, has now become a topic of increasing global concern. This vol

This book offers a unique perspective on ideas about late life as expressed in social policy and socio-cultural constructs of age with lived experience.