Psychology of Ageing

The graying of the U.S. population draws increasing focus to historically unattended segments of society, including sexual and gender minorities. I...

Synthesizing a vast body of empirical research and organizing it around a comprehensive conceptual model, this book is recognized as the definitive...

The demographic and social structure of most industrialized and developing countries are changing rapidly as infant mortality is reduced and popula...

The demographic and social structure of most industrialized and developing countries are changing rapidly as infant mortality is reduced and popula...

Decades of research have demonstrated that normal aging is accompanied by cognitive change. Much of this change has been conceptualized as a declin...

Research documents that rural elders are poorer, live in less adequate housing, and have far fewer health and service options available to them tha...

This acclaimed text promotes healthy aging by demonstrating how health practitioners, program developers, and policymakers can prevent or manage di...

Understand the menopause with all its changes and challenges and choose practices and treatments, brought to you by a team of experts, to make this...

The aging of America will reshape how we live and will transform nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Renowned life course sociologist Debo...

This volume addresses key issues such as the cultural and discursive context in which physical activity is discussed; the process of becoming physi...

You're not getting older, you're getting better, or so promised the famous 1970's ad--for women's hair dye. Americans have always had a complicated...

In Intergenerational Contact Zones, Kaplan, Thang, Sánchez, and Hoffman introduce novel ways of thinking, planning, and designing intergenerational...

This book provides practical evidence-based strategies that will help clinicians across a broad range of disciplines to address and discuss the mai...

This volume brings together experts in generativity and related fields to provide a compelling overview of contemporary research and theory on this...

For people with disabilities caused by nonprogressive brain injury, challenges in everyday living can be multifaceted and overwhelming. This book p...

Aging and Work in the 21st Century, 2nd edition, reviews, summarizes, and integrates existing literature from various disciplines with regard to ag...

This is a seminal study of cultural attitudes to old age among Jews of the medieval Mediterranean and Near Eastern regions. Rigorously researched a...

WINNER OF THE AUDIENCE CHOICE IRISH BOOK AWARD 2021Once you've got a few decades on the clock, life can seem sort of cross-roadsy. Once you're no l...

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