title: Ageing: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
author:  Nancy A. Pachana 
description: <br><strong>Nancy A Pachana</strong> is a professor of Geropsychology at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the co-founder and co-director of the UQ Ageing Mind Initiative, which promotes ageing research and translation into policy and practice at the University and beyond. She has an international reputation in the area of geriatric mental health, particularly with her research on late-life anxiety disorders, and her books include <em>The Casebook of Clinical Geropsychology</em> (OUP, 2010), <em>The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Geropsychology</em> (OUP, 2014) and <em>Psychological Assessment and Therapy with Older</em> <em>Adults</em> (OUP, 2015). She is co-developer of the Geriatric Anxiety Inventory, a published short self-report inventory in wide clinical and research use globally. Nancy was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia in 2014. Her main research interests include anxiety in later life, nursing home interventions and driving safety and dementia.<br>
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  Paul Spencer
  
  **Youth and Experiences of Ageing among Maa**
  
  **Models of Society Evoked by the Maasai, Samburu, and Chamus of Kenya**
  
  
  #  Paul Spencer
  
  #  **Youth and Experiences  
  of Ageing among Maa**
  
  #  Mod els of Society Evoked by the Maasai, Samburu,  
  and Chamus of Kenya
  
  Managing Editor: Kathryn Lichti-Harriman
  
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  ISBN: 978-3-11-037232-8
  
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