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Aging Families and 21st-Century Technology
Aging Families and Immigration
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Cultural and Racial Ethnic Diversity in Aging Families
Death and Bereavement
Demographics of Aging Families in the 21st Century
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Family Health
Grandparent-Grandchild/Great-Grandchild Relationships
Innovative Research Methods for Family Gerontology
Intersections of Gender
Legal Issues in Aging Families
Marriage and Marital-Like Relationships
Parent-Child Relationships
Peripheral Family Ties and Family-Like Relationships
Policy Issues for Aging Families
Race
Retirement
Rural Aging Families
Sibling Relationships
Step-family Relationships
Theoretical Directions for Family Gerontology
Widowhood
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- ISBN 9780313381737
- Weight: 1276g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 20 Sep 2012
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This comprehensive, state-of-the-art textbook and reference volume in family gerontology reviews and critiques the recent theoretical, empirical, and methodological literature; identifies future research directions; and makes recommendations for gerontology professionals.
This book is both an updated version of and a complement to the original Handbook of Families and Aging. The many additions include the most recent demographic changes on aging families, new theoretical formulations, innovative research methods, recent legal issues, and death and bereavement, as well as new material on the relationships themselves—sibling, partnered, and intergenerational relationships, for example. Among the brand-new topics in this edition are step-family relationships, aging families and immigration, aging families and 21st-century technology, and peripheral family ties.
Unlike the more cursory summaries found in textbooks, the essays within Handbook of Families and Aging, Second Edition provide thoughtful, in-depth coverage of each topic. No other book provides such a comprehensive and timely overview of theory and research on family relationships, the contexts of family life, and major turning points in late-life families. Nevertheless, the contents are written to be engaging and accessible to a broad audience, including advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers, and gerontology practitioners. Serious lay readers will also find this book highly informative about contemporary family issues.
Rosemary Blieszner, PhD, is alumni distinguished professor of human development and associate director of the Center for Gerontology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.
Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford, PhD, is professor emerita at the University of Indianapolis, School of Psychological Sciences, Indianapolis, IN.
