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Productive aging : concepts and challenges / edited by Nancy Morrow-Howell, James Hinterlong, and Michael Sherraden.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Older people.
- Life span, Productive.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (344 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This book will find most of its audience among the social gerontologists, but can be read by practitioners with merit... Many trainees could be stimulated by this excellent work to creative thinking." -- Doody's Book of Review Service "A systematic definitive account of the concept of productive aging." -- Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.
- Contents:
- The history and current state of productive aging. Productive aging : principles and perspectives/ James Hinterlong, Nancy Morrow-Howell, and Michael Sherraden
- Productive aging in historical perspective/ W. Andrew Achenbaum
- Productive aging : a conceptual framework/ Scott A. Bass and Francis G. Caro
- Disciplinary perspectives on productive aging. Biomedical perspectives on productive aging/ Alvar Svanborg
- Psychological implications of productive aging/ James E. Birren
- Sociological perspectives on productive aging/ Brent A. Taylor and Vern L. Bengtson
- Productive aging : an economist's view/ James H.. Schulz
- Emergent theories in gerontology. Productive aging and the ideology of old age/ Harry R. Moody
- The political economy of productive aging/ Carroll L. Estes and Jane Mahakian
- Changes over the life course in productive activities : black and white comparison/ James Jackson
- Future directions in practices, theory, and research. Structural lead : building the new institution for an aging America/ Marc Freedman
- Productive aging : theoretical choices and directions/ Michael Sherraden, Nancy Morrow-Howell, and James Hinterlong
- Setting a research agenda on productivity in later life/ Nancy Morrow-Howell ... [et al.]
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-7657-5
- OCLC:
- 923190967
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