The latest publication by the Malta University Press is Population ageing in Malta: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. The book is a must read for every student and teacher of nursing, medicine and gerontology.

"Life for older people was more simple 28 years ago. In 1982, the post office issued a set of two stamps on the theme of 'A time of rest' featuring an older man and woman in stereotypical village clothes against a background of Zammit Clapp Geriatric Hospital and St Vincent de Paul Residence for older persons. In 1986, the Department of Medicine provided a few lectures on geriatrics to medical students in the final year almost as an afterthought, with the management of bedsores being the most important topic taught. The future of our idealised 'Wenzu u Rozi' older people was evidently to 'rest' in institutions where doctors could manage their bedsores. Fast forward to 2015 and I am reading the book Population ageing in Malta: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. It is a landmark publication showing the vast progress that the study of ageing in Malta has undergone in the last 29 years. The book brings together a wide variety of authors writing accessibly and authoritatively about different aspects of aging and aged care in Malta from miscellaneous fields such as history, sociology, criminology, professional roles, and the informal, formal and private care sectors." Dr Carmelo Aquilina, St George Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The book is available from the offices of Malta University Press on campus at Guze Cassar Pullicino Building opposite the playschool, and from leading bookshops for €35.

For more information phone on 2340 3448; email: [email protected]

 

Population ageing in Malta: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by Marvin Formosa & Charles Scerri

ISBN 978-99909-45-79-9

380 pp