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"A celebration of the distinguished career of one of the major figures in gerontology. I highly recommend and encourage its adoption in advanced undergraduate and graduate gerontology courses." -- Contemporary Gerontology
Author : Robert C. Atchley
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
"A celebration of the distinguished career of one of the major figures in gerontology. I highly recommend and encourage its adoption in advanced undergraduate and graduate gerontology courses." -- Contemporary Gerontology
Author : Robert C. Atchley
Publisher :
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Rocío Fernández-Ballesteros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 969 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1108641431
Recent studies show that more people than ever before are reaching old age in better health and enjoying that health for a longer time. This Handbook outlines the latest discoveries in the study of aging from bio-medicine, psychology, and socio-demography. It treats the study of aging as a multidisciplinary scientific subject, since it requires the interplay of broad disciplines, while offering high motivation, positive attitudes, and behaviors for aging well, and lifestyle changes that will help people to stay healthier across life span and in old age. Written by leading scholars from various academic disciplines, the chapters delve into the most topical aspects of aging today - including biological mechanisms of aging, aging with health, active and productive aging, aging with satisfaction, aging with respect, and aging with dignity. Aimed at health professionals as well as general readers, this Cambridge Handbook offers a new, positive approach to later life.
Author : Dr. Vern L. Bengtson, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 1996-07-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0826192718
In this volume distinguished scholars explore and apply the theoretical models of continuity and discontinuity to their research in adult development. The chapters address the different ways in which continuity is affected by change over the life course, as well as how individuals negotiate and maintain crucial continuities by adaptive change. Topics include adult life crises, illness, sibling relationships, and gender identity. Each chapter is followed by an insightful commentary. This book is a tribute to Bernice L. Neugarten for her contributions to the field of adult development, which includes the concept of continuities. Contributors include W. Andrew Achenbaum, Robert H. Binstock, James Birren, Bertram J. Cohler, Margaret Hellie Huyck, Boaz Kahana, Eva Kahana, Sheldon S. Tobin, Lillian E. Troll, Steven H. Zarit, and others.
Author : Robert C. Atchley
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
"A celebration of the distinguished career of one of the major figures in gerontology. I highly recommend and encourage its adoption in advanced undergraduate and graduate gerontology courses." -- Contemporary Gerontology
Author : James E. Birren
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 11,95 MB
Release : 1991-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780801842139
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Author : Tom Dening
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 961 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0198807295
Part of the authoritative Oxford Textbooks in Psychiatry series, Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry, Third Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect the developments in old age psychiatry since publication of the Second Edition in 2013, and remains an essential reference for anyone interested in the mental health care of older people.
Author : Mo Wang
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0199746524
This handbook reviews existing theoretical perspectives and research findings on retirement, explores current and future challenges in retirement research and practice, and provides corresponding recommendations and suggestions.
Author : Robert C. Atchley
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,85 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0801891191
Separating spirituality from religion--something few books on this topic do--Spirituality and Aging offers a plan for incorporating spirituality into gerontological scholarship, research, education, and practice.
Author : W. Andrew Achenbaum
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 10,74 MB
Release : 2005-12-23
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780801882371
This thought-provoking work grapples with the vast range of issues associated with the aging population and challenges people of all ages to think more boldly and more creatively about the relationship between older Americans and their communities. W. Andrew Achenbaum begins by exploring the demographics of our aging society and its effect on employment and markets, education, health care, religion, and political action. Drawing on history, literature, and philosophy, Achenbaum focuses on the way health care and increases in life expectancy have transformed late life from a phase characterized by illness, frailty, and debility to one of vitality, productivity, and spirituality. He shows how this transformation of aging is beginning to be felt in programs and policies for aging persons, as communities focus more effort on lifelong learning and extensive civic engagement. Concerned that his own undergraduate students are too focused on the immediate future, Achenbaum encourages young people to consider their place in life's social and chronological trajectory. He calls on baby boomers to create institutional structures that promote productive, vital growth for the common good, and he invites people of all ages to think more boldly about what they will do with the long lives ahead of them.