Issues in Aging
ISBN: 9780205578696 | 0205578691
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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Successful aging: How can we create a better old age both for ourselves and others?Issues in Aging, 2nd edition takes an optimistic view of aging and human potential in later life; it presents the most up-to-date facts on aging today, the issues raised by these facts, and the societal and individual responses that will create a successful old age for us all.This text presents the full picture of aging- exhibiting both the problems and the opportunities and advantages that accompany older age. It aims to illustrate how generations are dependant ... MORE
| Aging Today | |
| Why Study Aging? | |
| Ageism | |
| Culture as a Source of Ageism | |
| Some Facts on Aging Today | |
| Responses to Ageism | |
| Aging Today | |
| Theories and Methods | |
| The Study of Aging: Past and Present | |
| Gerontology Research Today | |
| Is Gerontology a Discipline? | |
| Theories of... MORE | |
| Two Levels of Theories | |
| Three Theoretical Perspectives | |
| Research Issues and Methods | |
| The Humanities | |
| Ethical Issues in Research | |
| The Future of Gerontological Theory and Methods | |
| Aging at Other Times, in Other Places | |
| Four Types of Societies | |
| The Challenge of Population Aging | |
| The Developed Nations | |
| The Developing Nations | |
| Demography | |
| The Demographics of Population Aging | |
| Increased Proportion of Older People | |
| The Causes of Population Change | |
| The Challenges of an Aging Population | |
| The Impact of Population Aging | |
| Personal Health and Well-Being | |
| Biological Aging | |
| Theories of Biological Aging | |
| The Effects of Aging on Body Systems | |
| Personal Health and Illness | |
| Compression of Morbidity Hypothesis | |
| Successful Aging | |
| Life Span Development | |
| Memory and Intelligence | |
| New Models of Mental Ability in Later Life | |
| Personality Development and the Self | |
| Social Psychological Change | |
| Psychological Disorders: Abnormal Aging | |
| Social Breakdown and Reconstruction | |
| Race and Ethnicity | |
| Who Are the Minority Elderly? | |
| Why Study Minority Aging? | |
| Demographic Characteristics of Dominant and Minority Group Elders | |
| Three Theories on Minority Group Aging | |
| The Impact of Minority Group Membership on Aging | |
| A Look at Four Minority Groups | |
| Responses to Minority Group Aging | |
| The Health Care System | |
| Three Models of Health Care | |
| The U.S. Health Care System Today | |
| Long-term Care: A Response to Older People's Needs | |
| Disease Prevention and Health Promotion | |
| Future Issues in Health Care | |
| Finances and Economics | |
| Historical Development of the U.S. Pension System | |
| The U.S. Retirement Income System Today | |
| The Impact of the Retirement Income System on Older People's Incomes | |
| Inequality in Later Life | |
| Pension Reform | |
| The Future | |
| Retirement and Work | |
| The Social Origins of Retirement | |
| Retirement in the United States Today | |
| Alternatives to Retirement | |
| Personal Responses to Retirement | |
| Preretirement Education | |
| Social Structures and Retirement | |
| The Future of Retirement | |
| Housing and Transportation | |
| Living Arrangements | |
| An Ecological Model of Housing | |
| Housing Options | |
| The Future of Housing | |
| Transportation | |
| Leisure, Recreation, and Education | |
| Leisure | |
| New Activities in Old Age | |
| Senior Centers | |
| Education | |
| Community Service and Volunteer Work | |
| Family Life and Social Support- | |
| Death and Dying | |
| Death and Society | |
| Death in Old Age | |
| Institutional Death | |
| Changes in the Treatment of the Dying | |
| Ethical Issues | |
| Mourning and Grief | |
| Politics and Policies | |
| Voting | |
| Holding Political Office | |
| Advocacy | |
| Activism | |
| Government and Aging Policy | |
| Generational Equity | |
| The Future of Aging, Politics, and Policy | |
| Appendix Gerontology Care | |
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