Overview
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; and 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 and enhance the experience of those fortunate enough to grow older.
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Author: Janet M. Wilmoth , Kenneth F. Ferraro
Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc
Imprint: Springer Publishing Co Inc
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.626kg
ISBN: 9780826102300
ISBN 10: 0826102301
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 11 September 2006
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
"Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction; PART I. Aging Scholarship; The Fountain of Gerontological Discovery, Janet Wilmoth and Ken Ferraro; The Evolution of Gerontology as a Field of Scientific Inquiry, Ken Ferraro; Demographic Perspectives on Aging, Janet Wilmoth and Charles Longino; PART II. Physical Aspects of Aging; Cellular and Organismal Aspects of Senescence and Longevity, David Waters; Cognitive Aging, Aimee Suprenant and Ian Neath; Disability Concepts and Measurement: Contributions of the Epidemiology of Disability to Gerontological Inquiry, Fredric Wolinsky and Doug Miller; The Role of Nutrition in the Older Individual, Dorothy Morre; Exercise and Aging, Michael Flynn; PART III. Social Aspects of Aging; Socioemotional Aspects of Aging, Karen Fingerman and Brooke Baker; Age Structures, Aging, and the Life Course, Linda George; Social Forces, Life-Course Consequences: Cumulative Disadvantage and """"Getting Alzheimer's"""", Dale Dannefer and Kathryn Douthit; Humanist Gerontology and the Meaning(s) of Age, Thomas Cole and Michelle Sierpina; PART IV. Public Policy; Retirement and Financial Security: An Economist Thinks Out Loud, Timothy Smeeding; Social Lives in Later Life, Christine Himes and Ying Fang; Politics and Policy in the Lives of Older Americans, Robert Hudson."
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Janet M. Wilmoth, PhD, is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Aging Studies Institute, and a Senior Research Associate in the Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University. Kenneth F. Ferraro, PhD, is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Aging and the Life Course at Purdue University.
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