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Gerontology : perspectives and issues /

Designated a Doody's Core Title!. THE GROUNDBREAKING TEXT ON GERONTOLOGY, UPDATED TO ADDRESS THE INTERDISCIPLINARY NATURE OF THE STUDY OF AGING.: What is Gerontology?.; How Does Aging Affect the Mind and the Body?.; How Does Social Context Influence Aging and Life Course Development?.; What are...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wilmoth, Janet M. (Janet May), Ferraro, Kenneth F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Springer Pub., ©2007.
Edición:3rd ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Aging scholarship. The fountain of gerontological discovery / Janet M. Wilmoth and Kenneth F. Ferraro. The evolution of gerontology as a scientific field of inquiry / Kenneth F. Ferraro. Demographic perspectives on aging / Janet M. Wilmoth and Charles F. Longino, Jr.
  • Physical aspects of aging. Cellular and organismal aspects of senescence and longevity / David J. Waters. Cognitive aging / Aimée M. Surprenant and Ian Neath. Disability concepts and measurement: contributions of the epidemiology of disability to gerontological inquiry / Frederic D. Wolinsky and Douglas K. Miller. The role of nutrition in the older individual / Dorothy M. Morré. Exercise and aging / Michael G. Flynn
  • Social aspects of aging. Socioemotional aspects of aging / Karen L. Fingerman and Brooke N. Baker. Age structures, aging, and the life course / Linda K. George. Social forces, life course consequences: cumulative disadvantage and "getting Alzheimer's" / Kathryn Z. Douthit and Dale Dannefer. Humanistic gerontology and the meaning(s) of aging / Thomas R. Cole and Michelle Sierpina
  • Public policy. Retirement and financial security: an economist thinks out loud / Timothy M. Smeeding. Social lives in later life / Christine L. Himes and Ying Fang. Politics and policy in the lives of older Americans / Robert B. Hudson
  • Afterword. The gerontological imagination / Kenneth F. Ferraro.