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Abstract: This updated edition presents the latest research available on aging individuals, populations, and the dynamic culmination of the life course, providing a comprehensive synthesis and review of the latest research findings in the social sciences of aging that is of particular interest to scientists and researchers in a broad array of specialties.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword / Thomas A. Rando, Laura L. Carstensen
• Preface / Linda K. George, Kenneth F. Ferraro
• About the editors
• List of contributors
• I. Theory and Methods
• 1. Aging and the social sciences : progress and prospects / Linda K. George, Kenneth F. Ferraro
• 2. Trajectory models for aging research / Scott M. Lynch, Miles G. Taylor
• II. Social Structures and Processes
• 3. Biodemography : adding biological insight into social, economic, and psychological models of population and individual health change with age / Eileen M. Crimmins, Sarinnapha M. Vasunilashorn
• 4. Late-life disability trends and trajectories / Douglas Wolf
• 5. Early life origins of adult health and aging / Diana Kuh, Yoav Ben-Shlomo
• 6. Racial and ethnic inequalities in health / Jacqueline L. Angel, Stipica Mudrazija, Rebecca Benson
• 7. Immigration, aging, and the life course / Judith Treas, Zoya Gubernskaya
• 8. Gender, time use, and aging / Liana C. Sayer, Vicki A. Freedman, Suzanne M. Bianchi
• 9. Social networks in later life / Benjamin Cornwell, Markus H. Schafer
• III. Social Factors and Social Institutions
• 10. Stability, change, and complexity in later-life families / J. Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, Karl Pillemer
• 11. The influence of military service on aging / Janet M. Wilmoth, Andrew S. London
• 12. Religion, health, and aging / Neal Krause, R. David Hayward
• 13. Evolving patterns of work and retirement / Kevin E. Cahill, Michael D. Giandrea, Joseph F. Quinn

• 14. Productive engagement in later life / Nancy Morrow-Howell, Emily A. Greenfield
• 15. Aging, neighborhoods, and the built environment / Carol S. Aneshensel, Frederick Harig, Richard G. Wight
• 16. Abusive relationships in late life / Karen A. Roberto
• 17. The impact of disasters : implications for the well-being of older adults / Lisa M. Brown, Kathryn A. Frahm
• 18. End-of-life planning and health care / Deborah Carr, Elizabeth Luth
• IV. Aging and Society
• 19. Organization and financing of health care / Marilyn Moon
• 20. Innovations in long-term care / Joseph E. Gaugler
• Politics and policies of aging in the United States / Robert B. Hudson
• The future of retirement security in comparative perspective / John B. Williamson, Daniel Be?land
• Health inequalities among older adults in developed countries : reconciling theories and policy approaches / Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, Andrea Willson, Sandra Reiter-Campeau.

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Contributors:

George, Linda , editor

Ferraro, Kenneth F. , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Older people — Care

Life change events in old age

Aging — Social aspects

Older people — Social conditions — 21st century

Gerontology

2000-2099

Older people

Aging

Older people — Social conditions

General Notes:

Description based on title page of print version.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (36 entries) : 44 images.

Call Numbers:

HQ1061 .H336 2015eb

ISBNs:

9781785396922 (electronic version)
9780124172357 (print) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2015937297 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

932851885

Other Control Numbers:

gtp00564374 (source: CaBNVSL)
estaging2015 (source: Credo)
[Unknown Type]: Credo9781785396922