Keywords:
Aging.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This text offers a readable and friendly presentation of the important methods, findings, and theories of human aging, while actively involving the reader in meaningful exercises and critical thinking.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (509 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9781317351085
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=4332773
DDC:
305.26
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- 1 An Introduction to Human Aging -- Why Study Human Aging? -- SENIOR VIEW -- Changes in Population -- Career Implications -- ■ BOX 1 . 1 Careers in Gerontology -- The Study of Aging -- What Is Aging/Who Is Old? -- Stereotypes -- ■ BOX 1 - 2 Who Is Old? -- Electronic Media -- Print Media -- ■ BOX 1 - 3 Positive Humor -- PROJECT 1 -- ■ BOX 1 - 4 Be Fair -- Attitudes Toward Aging -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Readings -- Internet Resources -- 2 Research Methods and Issues -- Guiding Principles and Issues -- SENIOR VIEW -- Theory -- Research Methods -- Relationship Methods -- Difference Methods -- Descriptive Methods -- PROJECT 2 -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- Data Sources -- ■ BOX 2 - 1 What Do You Mean? -- Ethics -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Reading -- Internet Resources -- PART ONE Aging and Our Bodies -- 3 Physical Aspects of Aging: Changes in Our Bodies -- Individual Differences -- SENIOR VIEW -- Changes in Physical Appearance -- Skin -- Hair -- Height and Weight -- Voice -- Facial Appearance -- Internal Changes -- Muscles -- Skeletal System -- Cardiovascular System -- Respiratory System -- Digestive System -- ■ BOX 3 - 1 Short on Stamina? I Don't Think So -- Reproductive System -- Immune System -- Nervous System -- Chronic Conditions -- PROJECT 3 -- Interactions -- ■ BOX 3 - 2 Sleeping and Aging -- ■ BOX 3 - 3 Dreaming and Aging -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Readings -- Internet Resources -- 4 Theories of Senescence and Aging -- An Overview -- SENIOR VIEW -- Programmed Theories -- Biological Clock -- Evolution -- Hormones -- A Middle Category -- Immune System -- Unprogrammed Theories -- Wear and Tear -- Free Radicals -- PROJECT 4.
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Garbage Accumulation -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- DNA Damage and Repair -- All (Many) of the Above -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Readings -- Internet Resources -- 5 Health and Longevity -- Overview -- ■ BOX 5 - 1 Increasing Longevity in WEIRD Ways -- Factors Beyond One's Control -- Factors Within One's Control -- Diet -- SENIOR VIEW -- ■ BOX 5 - 2 Determining Your Body Mass Index -- Exercise -- ■ BOX 5 - 3 Sweets for the Sweet -- Supplements -- Tobacco -- PROJECT 5 Searching for the Fountain of Youth -- Alcohol -- Stress -- Other Factors -- Gender -- Race/Culture/SES -- Social Support -- Quality of Life -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- ■ BOX 5 - 4 Estimating Your Own Life Expectancy -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Readings -- Internet Resources -- PART TWO Aging and Our Minds -- 6 Sensation, Perception, and Slowing with Age -- Sensation and Perception -- Vision -- SENIOR VIEW -- ■ BOX 6 - 1 Older Drivers -- Hearing -- Smell, Taste, Touch, and Balance -- Slowing -- Falls -- Time -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- PROJECT 6 -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Reading -- Internet Resources -- 7 Memory and Cognition -- An Overview of Memory Processing -- Sensory Memory -- Working Memory -- SENIOR VIEW -- ■ BOX 7 - 1 A Walk Through the Library -- Long-Term Memory -- Memory System -- Memory and Aging -- Working Memory and Aging -- Long-Term Memory and Aging -- ■ BOX 7 - 2 Remembering Old Memories Better than New Memories -- Metamemory -- PROJECT 7 -- Memory Improvement -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Readings -- Internet Resources -- 8 Intelligence, Wisdom, and Creativity -- Intelligence -- SENIOR VIEW -- What Is Intelligence? -- Age Differences in Intelligence -- ■ BOX 8 - 1 Terminal Drop -- Real-World Adult Intelligence.
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Problem Solving -- ■ BOX 8 - 2 Problem Solving -- Selective Optimization with Compensation -- Expertise -- ■ BOX 8 - 3 Examples of Selective Optimization with Compensation -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- Wisdom -- Creativity -- PROJECT 8 -- What Can We Conclude? -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Readings -- Internet Resources -- PART THREE Aging and Our Selves -- 9 Personality -- An Overview of Personality -- SENIOR VIEW -- Measures of Personality -- Levels of Personality -- Traits -- Five-Factor Theory of Personality -- Age Difference in Traits -- Personal Concerns -- ■ BOX 9 - 1 Traits and Fears of Aging -- PROJECT 9 Age/Cohort Differences in Personal Concerns -- Erikson's Stages of Lifespan Development -- ■ BOX 9 - 2 Age and Androgyny -- Age Differences in Coping -- Two Views -- Responding to Problems -- Control -- Identity -- ■ BOX 9 - 3 A Life Story -- Personality, Health, and Well-Being -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Readings -- Internet Resources -- 10 Relationships -- Social Support -- SENIOR VIEW -- PROJECT 10 Social Networks -- Family Relationships -- Marriage, Gay/Lesbian Unions, Divorce, and Remarriage -- ■ BOX 10 - 1 Elder Abuse -- Sexual Relations -- Siblings -- Intergenerational Relationships -- ■ BOX 10 - 2 Custodial Grandparents -- Friends -- Religion -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- ■ BOX 10 - 3 Shepherd's Centers -- Isolation and Loneliness -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Readings -- Internet Resources -- 11 Work and Retirement -- Work -- Injury and Absence -- SENIOR VIEW -- Job Performance -- Learning New Procedures -- Job Satisfaction -- Job Discrimination -- PROJECT 11 Discrimination Against Older Workers -- Retirement -- Demographics of Retirement -- Phases of Retirement -- ■ BOX 11 - 1 Some Top Retirement Locations.
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■ BOX 11 - 2 People in Different Phases of Retirement -- Adjustment to Retirement -- ■ BOX 11 - 3 Cultural Differences in Retirement -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Readings -- Internet Resources -- PART FOUR Aging and Our Survival -- 12 Psychopathology -- Overview -- Alcohol Abuse -- SENIOR VIEW -- ■ BOX 12 - 1 Alcoholism and Ethnicity -- Depression -- Suicide -- Acute Cognitive Disorders -- Dementia -- ■ BOX 12 - 2 Animal Dementias -- Less Frequent Forms of Dementia -- Vascular Dementia -- Parkinson's Disease -- Alzheimer's Dementia -- ■ BOX 12 - 3 Dementia Treatments Used by Families -- Caregiving -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- PROJECT 12 Be A Volunteer -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Readings -- Internet Resources -- 13 Healthy/Helpful Environments: Places and People -- How Spaces Become Places or How We Fit In -- Types of Person-Environment Congruence -- SENIOR VIEW -- Where We Live in Old Age -- ■ BOX 13 - 1 Cultural Perspectives on Housing for Older Adults -- The Need for Assistance -- Community-Based Long-Term Care -- ■ BOX 13 - 2 Services for Elders at Home -- ■ BOX 13 - 3 Financing Long-Term Health Care -- Retirement Communities and Assisting Living -- Quality of Life in Institutional Environments -- Help or Enabling Environments -- Human Factors Approach -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- Home Modifications -- PROJECT 13 Check Out Your Home -- ■ BOX 13 - 4 When Is a Door Not a Door? -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Reading -- Internet Resources -- 14 Death and Bereavement -- Death -- SENIOR VIEW -- Causes of Death -- ■ BOX 14 - 1 Death Around the World -- Advance Directives -- ■ BOX 14 - 2 Terri Schiavo -- Euthanasia -- ■ BOX 14 - 3 Physician Assisted Suicide -- Hospice -- The Dying Experience -- Bereavement -- Mourning.
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■ BOX 14 - 4 Selected Religious and Cultural Differences in Mourning -- PROJECT 14 Plan Your Own Funeral -- Grief -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- Support for the Bereaved -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Readings -- Internet Resources -- PART FIVE Aging and You -- 15 Looking to the Future -- Principles and Issues -- SENIOR VIEW -- Age and Well-Being -- PROJECT 15 Autobiography Project -- The Future -- SOCIAL POLICY APPLICATIONS -- Our Future Bodies -- Our Future Minds -- Our Future Selves -- Our Future Survival -- Chapter Highlights -- Study Questions -- Recommended Readings -- Internet Resources -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Photo Credits.
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