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The authors investigated the academic self‐concept of students age 50 and older who are in career transition to identify their perceptions of their academic abilities and the teaching and learning environment.

Quality of Life and Older People provides a critical approach to the conceptualization and measurement of quality of life in social gerontology and health and social care research. The book re-examines what we mean by 'quality of life' in a post-modern world, and examines the impact of continuous personal and social changes on the lives of older people. The authors explore ideas about quality of life in social gerontological literature, and attempt to describe the experiences of older people through both their own self description and analysts representations of their experiences. They present

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- A Home Given by Chairman Mao -- The Tragedy of the People of "Lucky Star Locust -- The Story of Selling Oneself -- Land -- A Cave with Two Entrances -- The Wheelbarrow -- A Funeral for a Dog -- The Fight -- Yü-huang Temple in a Blizzard -- Under the Iron Hoof of Japanese Imperialism -- The "Millstone" Shoes -- A Woman Farmhand -- The Poor People's Cave -- Revolutionary Mother Pao Lien-tzu -- A Shepherd Becomes a College Professor -- A Poor Blacksmith Becomes a Master of the Country -- An Honorable Family of Miners