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Most older adults lead productive, happy lives, without significant levels of disability or illness. In this well-written text, the editors integrate concepts of health aging with larger salient issues of aging from the psychological, social, and biomedical fields. The book contains a useful section on issues surrounding service provision with this growing population. This is a very useful text for teaching in this interdisciplinary field.

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Sue E. Levkoff, ScD, is an associate professor in psychiatry at Brigham and Women's Hospital and an associate professor in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She currently serves as the director for the Positive Aging Resource Center, a national technical assistance center for enhancing behavioral health services for older adults. Yeon Kyung Chee, PhD, teaches at the Center for Applied Research on Aging and Health at Thomas Jefferson University's Jefferson College of Health Professions. Shohei Noguchi, BA, is founder of Mejiro Human Science College, Mejiro Life Science College, and Chuo College of Law in Japan.

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