MO RAY is a social worker and has spent many years in practice as a social worker for older people. She is a lecturer in Social Work at Keele University, UK and is postgraduate Director of the Masters in Social Work programme.MIRIAM BERNARD is Professor of Social Gerontology, Director of Keele University's Research Institute for Life Course Studies, UK. She is the author/editor of 16 books and monographs.  JUDITH PHILLIPS is Professor of Gerontology and Director of the Older People and Ageing and Research and Development network in Wales. She is President of the British Society of Gerontology.

• Changing Times, Changing ContextsDeveloping Critical Gerontological Social WorkRisk and Older PeopleOlder People and End of Life CareTransitions and ContinuitiesCare Giving in Diverse ContextsDeveloping Critical Gerontological Practice: New ChallengesPushing the Boundaries

'The text is well laid out, with the main points summarised at the beginning of each chapter, some interesting case studies and ponts for reflection...The text rightly asserts the need to raise the profile of this area of social work practice and to underpin it with the emerging gerontological knowledge base. It is an important contribution to this aim' - Dr Colin Young, School of social Sciences, Cardiff University 'This volume in the 'Reshaping Social Work Series' seeks to develop the knowledge base for reflective practice, and is an excellent exposition of how such a critical gerontological framework can be applied'. - Ageing& Society Journal, Cambridge University Press 2009