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This collection of essays provides a comprehensive perspective on the enduring questions in gerontology and how they have shaped our understanding of differences in the experience of old age. The text inspires the reader to consider how key questions in gerontology emerged, how they have changed in the decades since gerontology entered the fray, and what may lie ahead.

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Debra Sheets, PhD, RN, is assistant professor in the Department of Health Sciences and Coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Gerontology Program at California State University--Northridge. Dana Burr Bradley, PhD, is the director of the Center for Gerontology and the Cliff Todd Distinguished Professor of Gerontology at Western Kentucky University. Jon (Joe) Hendricks, PhD, is dean of the University Honors College, Oregon State University. He served as president of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE), as chair of the sections on Sociology of Aging and Life Course, American Sociological Association, and Behavioral and Social Sciences, Gerontological Society of American.

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