Psychology of Ageing

This book presents recent research on the role of space as a mechanism in language use and learning. It proceeds from the notion that cognition in ...

The psychology of aging is an exciting and rapidly-developing field. This volume provides a collection of classic, original and often widely-cited ...

Older Women Who Work: Resilience, Choice, and Change provides one of the first in-depth examinations of women age 65 and older who have delayed ret...

Bette Davis said ‘Old age ain’t no place for sissies’. If that’s true, we could all use a little help as we approach our twilight years. Translator...

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) older adults have unique and varying physical and mental health needs. Yet their experiences have...

Although older adults face significant health challenges, they tend to have better emotion regulation skills than younger or middle-age adults. Why...

Across more than 30 chapters spanning migration, queerness, and climate change, this handbook captures how the interdisciplinary and intersectional...

With a storyteller’s gift and a scientist’s insights, Draaisma celebrates the unique pleasures of the aging memory You cannot call to mind the name...

Informed parents know there is an abundance of information about children and child development available on the Internet, but can they trust that ...

In the popular imagination, retirement promises a well-deserved rest—idle days spent traveling, volunteering, pursuing hobbies, or just puttering a...

This is a book about joy and love: Love of self, of life, and of still being here to tell your stories."To read Sophy Burnham is to marvel at her e...

Based on close readings of three major sitcoms, this book unpacks how sitcoms understand later life sexualities and focusses on how they represent ...

The psychology of aging usually focuses upon cognitive changes, with a particular focus on dementia and other forms of cognitive decline. But getti...

“A brilliant work on a profoundly important subject. The leading scientific authority on motherhood has come through again.” —E. O. Wilson “Thought...

Creative Team Work describes a new way of doing rapid ethnography to capture the rich complexity and contradictions of social relations. It is abou...

We’ve all heard that Millennials are smarter than everyone else, unique in every way possible, that they have probably been millionaires since age ...

The Aging Mind offers an accessible introduction to what research has revealed about how our bodies and brains age, and how these changes affect ou...

In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their most interesting...

This monograph is the written version of a series of talks delivered as recent MacEachran Lectures at the University of Alberta. The informal style...

Based on the proceedings of the twelfth biennial conference on life-span developmental psychology, most of the contributions in this volume deal wi...

This unique text presents a systematic study of a proven method for increasing the memory and reading comprehension of older adults by using a prog...

This collection highlights the current efforts by scholars and researchers to understand the aging process as it relates to the health of older adu...

Planning is defined as formulating an organized method for action in advance. Although people do not plan all the time and planning does not occur ...

The edited volume Age and Work: Advances in Theory, Methods, and Practice presents a systematic collection of key advances in theory, methods, and ...

This book explores the practical application of recent improvements in technology for people living with dementia and highlights the positive outco...

What are the changes we see over the life-span? How can we explain them? And how do we account for individual differences? This volume continues to...

This volume derived from original presentations given at a conference in Atlanta, Georgia, under the auspices of the Center for Child Well-Being. S...

The final volume in this significant series, this publication mirrors the broad scientific attention given to ideas and issues associated with the ...

Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) has been identified as an important clinical transition between normal aging and the early stages of Alzheimer's di...

We’ve all heard that Millennials are smarter than everyone else, unique in every way possible, that they have probably been millionaires since age ...

The edited volume Age and Work: Advances in Theory, Methods, and Practice presents a systematic collection of key advances in theory, methods, and ...

Understand the complex ethical, legal, medical, and psychological issues of the most common form of elder abuse!Self-Neglect examines the social, e...

This book is a major reassessment of work in the field of critical gerontology, providing a comprehensive survey of issues by a team of contributor...

Putting gender in a lifespan context, Hatch (sociology, U. of Kentucky) atypically accents the gains as well as losses of aging and sex differences...

The Empty Couch is an introduction to the challenges and obstacles inherent in ageing as a psychoanalyst. It addresses the previously neglected iss...

The Empty Couch is an introduction to the challenges and obstacles inherent in ageing as a psychoanalyst. It addresses the previously neglected iss...

Marital Communication provides insight into healthy relationships for those who want to better understand key communication processes between long-...

Marital Communication provides insight into healthy relationships for those who want to better understand key communication processes between long-...