Professor Malcolm Johnson
Profile
Malcolm is a Visiting Professor in Gerontology and End of Life Care in the Department of Social & Policy Sciences at the University of Bath. He is also Emeritus Professor of Health & Social Policy at the University of Bristol. Between 1984 and 1995, he was Professor of Health & Social Welfare and first Dean of the School of Health & Social Welfare at the Open University. He is a former Secretary of the BSA Medical Sociology Group and of the British Society of Gerontology, and Founding Editor of the international journal Ageing and Society. He was also the founding Associate Editor of Sociology of Health & Illness. Malcolm has been Distinguished Visiting Professor at several North American and European universities. He is Director of the International Institute on Health and Ageing
- Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
- Fellow of the British Society of Gerontology
- Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America
Research interests
Malcolm's research and academic interests are wide, including:
- the social aspects of health and illness
- biographical studies
- social policy analysis
- death and dying
- ageing and the lifespan
- long term care of older people
- spirituality in later life
Of his ten books and around 160 monographs, chapters and articles, more than half relate to ageing.
Malcolm's research and consultancy includes extensive work on the long term care of older people, theories of ageing and on assessment issues. Over the past fifteen years it has extended into end of life care and spirituality in later life. His work on End of Life Care in Care Homes recieved the Indpendent Healthcare Award and was runner up in The Guardian Public Service Awards.
Publications
Book/s
Johnson, M., 2007. End of Life Care: Report of the implemention of an innovative training programme to all 106 Anchor homes. Anchor Trust.
Johnson, M., ed., 2005. The Cambridge handbook of age and ageing. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Book Sections
Johnson, M., 2012. Forthcoming. Biography and generation: Spirituality and biographical pain at the end of life in old age. In: Silverstein, M. and Giarusso, R., eds. From Generation to Generation: Continuity and Discontinuity in Aging Families. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press.
Johnson, M., 2009. Procession of the generations: Are we still travelling together? In: Rogne, L., Estes, C., Grossmann, B., Hollister, B. and Solway, E., eds. Social Insurance and Social Justice: Social Security, Medicare and the campaign against entitlements. New York: Springer, pp. 25-45.
Johnson, M., 2008. Spirituality, Finitude and Theories of the Lifespan. In: Bengtson, V. L., Silverstein, M., Putney, N. and Gans, D., eds. Handbook of Theories of Aging. New York: Springer, pp. 659-674.
Johnson, M., 2005. Ageing in the modern world. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, xxi-xxvi.
Bengtson, V., Putney, N. and Johnson, M., 2005. Are theories of ageing possible? In: The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-20.
Bengtson, V. L., Putney, N. M. and Johnson, M., 2005. The problem of theory in gerontology today. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 3-20.
Johnson, M., 2005. The social construction of old age as a problem. In: The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 563-571.
Johnson, M., 2005. The contribution of ageing research to an understanding of social change. In: Amann, A. and Majce, G., eds. Soziologie in interdisziplinaren Netzwerken. Vienna: Bohlau Verlag, pp. 107-118.
Articles
Johnson, M. and Percival, J., 2013. End-of-life care in nursing homes and care homes. Nursing Times, 108 (12), pp. 20-22.
Johnson, M., 2010. Learning and unlearning for end of life care in care homes. International Journal of Education and Ageing, 1 (1), pp. 53-66.
Johnson, M., 2008. End of life care is our business. Editorial. Healthcare Business
