Gerontology : perspectives and issues / Janet M. Wilmoth, Kenneth F. Ferraro, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilmoth, Janet M. (Janet May)

Ferraro, Kenneth F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gerontology--United States.

Gerontology.

United States.

Geriatrics.

Aged.

Aging.

Medical Subjects:

Geriatrics.

Aged.

Aging.

Physical Description:

xx, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Pub., [2007]

Summary:

Contributed and edited by some of the most important and influential thought-leaders in gerontology, this new edition provides a multi-disciplinary collection of research and commentary on the issues and trends critical to defining the field today. Focusing on the most important attributes of gerontology, this new volume seeks to develop a paradigm and awareness of the process of human aging and helps us understand how the scientific contributions from many different fields of research contribute to a unified and cohesive meaning. Some of the topics covered include: Demographic Perspectives; Disability Concepts and Measurement; Evolution of Gerontology; Exercise; Nutrition; Politics and Policy; Retirement and Financial Security; Social Forces, Life-Course Consequences. For professionals, researchers, and students working in the field of gerontology, this comprehensive and multidisciplinary review will serve to clarify our fundamental image of what aging is.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0826102301

OCLC:

70129181

Publisher Number:

9780826102300