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An Introduction to Human Aging |
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Box 1-1 Careers in Gerontology |
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What Is Aging/Who Is Old? |
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Research Methods and Issues |
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Guiding Principles and Issues |
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Social Policy Applications |
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Box 2-1 What Do You Mean? |
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PART ONE Aging and Our Bodies |
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Physical Aspects of Aging: Changes in Our Bodies |
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Changes in Physical Appearance |
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Box 3-1 Short on Stamina? I Don't Think So |
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Box 3-2 Sleeping and Aging |
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Box 3-3 Dreaming and Aging |
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Theories of Senescence and Aging |
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Social Policy Applications |
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Box 5-1 Increasing Longevity in WEIRD Ways |
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Factors Beyond One's Control |
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Factors Within One's Control |
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Box 5-2 Determining Your Body Mass Index |
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Box 5-3 Sweets for the Sweet |
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Project 5 Searching for the Fountain of Youth |
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Social Policy Applications |
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Box 5-4 Estimating Your Own Life Expectancy |
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PART TWO Aging and Our Minds |
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Sensation, Perception, and Slowing with Age |
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Smell, Taste, Touch, and Balance |
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Social Policy Applications |
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An Overview of Memory Processing |
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Box 7-1 A Walk Through the Library |
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Long-Term Memory and Aging |
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Box 7-2 Remembering Old Memories Better than New Memories |
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Social Policy Applications |
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Intelligence, Wisdom, and Creativity |
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Age Differences in Intelligence |
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Real-World Adult Intelligence |
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Selective Optimization with Compensation |
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Box 8-3 Examples of Selective Optimization with Compensation |
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Social Policy Applications |
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PART THREE Aging and Our Selves |
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An Overview of Personality |
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Five-Factor Theory of Personality |
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Box 9-1 Traits and Fears of Aging |
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Project 9 Age/Cohort Differences in Personal Concerns |
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Erikson's Stages of Lifespan Development |
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Box 9-2 Age and Androgyny |
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Age Differences in Coping |
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Personality, Health, and Well-Being |
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Social Policy Applications |
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Project 10 Social Networks |
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Marriage, Gay/Lesbian Unions, Divorce, and Remarriage |
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Intergenerational Relationships |
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Box 10-2 Custodial Grandparents |
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Social Policy Applications |
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Box 10-3 Shepherd's Centers |
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Project 11 Discrimination Against Older Workers |
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Demographics of Retirement |
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Box 11-1 Some Top Retirement Locations |
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Box 11-2 People in Different Phases of Retirement |
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Box 11-3 Cultural Differences in Retirement |
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Social Policy Applications |
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PART FOUR Aging and Our Survival |
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Box 12-1 Alcoholism and Ethnicity |
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Acute Cognitive Disorders |
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Box 12-2 Animal Dementias |
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Less Frequent Forms of Dementia |
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Box 12-3 Dementia Treatments Used by Families |
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Social Policy Applications |
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Project 12 Be A Volunteer |
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Healthy/Helpful Environments: Places and People |
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How Spaces Become Places or How We Fit In |
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Types of Person-Environment Congruence |
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Box 13-1 Cultural Perspectives on Housing for Older Adults |
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Community-Based Long-Term Care |
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Box 13-2 Services for Elders at Home |
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Box 13-3 Financing Long-Term Health Care |
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Retirement Communities and Assisting Living |
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Quality of Life in Institutional Environments |
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Help or Enabling Environments |
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Social Policy Applications |
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Project 13 Check Out Your Home |
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Box 13-4 When Is a Door Not a Door? |
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Box 14-1 Death Around the World |
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Box 14-3 Physician Assisted Suicide |
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Box 14-4 Selected Religious and Cultural Differences in Mourning |
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Project 14 Plan Your Own Funeral |
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Social Policy Applications |
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Project 15 Autobiography Project |
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Social Policy Applications |
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References |
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Name Index |
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Subject Index |
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Photo Credits |
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