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E-raamat: Human Aging: United States Edition 2nd edition [Taylor & Francis e-raamat]

  • Formaat: 512 pages
  • Sari: Mydevelopmentkit
  • Ilmumisaeg: 13-Feb-2008
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781315665092
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  • Formaat: 512 pages
  • Sari: Mydevelopmentkit
  • Ilmumisaeg: 13-Feb-2008
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9781315665092
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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.

Students are repeatedly challenged to apply information in the text to the older adults in their own lives. Specifically, suggestions for enhancing the lives of their older relatives are offered and encouraged. These include guidelines for discussions they might have regarding social, emotional, and environmental changes as well encouraging intellectual and social interaction. While presenting the latest in research findings, the authors have also strived to keep research interesting for students who may not see themselves as researchers.

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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.

 

Students are repeatedly challenged to apply information in the text to the older adults in their own lives. Specifically, suggestions for enhancing the lives of their older relatives are offered and encouraged. These include guidelines for discussions they might have regarding social, emotional, and environmental changes as well encouraging intellectual and social interaction. While presenting the latest in research findings, the authors have also strived to keep research interesting for students who may not see themselves as researchers.
An Introduction to Human Aging
1(20)
Why Study Human Aging?
1(1)
Senior View
2(7)
Changes in Population
3(5)
Career Implications
8(1)
Box 1-1 Careers in Gerontology
8(1)
The Study of Aging
9(1)
What Is Aging/Who Is Old?
9(1)
Stereotypes
10(5)
Box 1-2 Who Is Old?
11(1)
Electronic Media
12(1)
Print Media
13(1)
Box 1-3 Positive Humor
14(1)
Project 1
15(3)
Box 1-4 Be Fair
15(1)
Attitudes Toward Aging
16(2)
Social Policy Applications
18(1)
Chapter Highlights
18(1)
Study Questions
19(1)
Recommended Readings
19(1)
Internet Resources
20(1)
Research Methods and Issues
21(18)
Guiding Principles and Issues
21(1)
Senior View
22(4)
Theory
26(1)
Research Methods
26(6)
Relationship Methods
27(1)
Difference Methods
27(4)
Descriptive Methods
31(1)
Project 2
32(1)
Social Policy Applications
33(3)
Data Sources
33(1)
Box 2-1 What Do You Mean?
34(2)
Ethics
36(1)
Chapter Highlights
37(1)
Study Questions
38(1)
Recommended Reading
38(1)
Internet Resources
38(1)
PART ONE Aging and Our Bodies
39(70)
Physical Aspects of Aging: Changes in Our Bodies
41(25)
Individual Differences
41(1)
Senior View
42(1)
Changes in Physical Appearance
43(4)
Skin
43(2)
Hair
45(1)
Height and Weight
46(1)
Voice
47(1)
Facial Appearance
47(1)
Internal Changes
47(11)
Muscles
47(2)
Skeletal System
49(2)
Cardiovascular System
51(1)
Respiratory System
52(1)
Digestive System
53(1)
Box 3-1 Short on Stamina? I Don't Think So
54(1)
Reproductive System
55(1)
Immune System
56(1)
Nervous System
57(1)
Chronic Conditions
58(1)
Project 3
59(4)
Interactions
60(1)
Box 3-2 Sleeping and Aging
61(2)
Box 3-3 Dreaming and Aging
63(1)
Social Policy Applications
63(1)
Chapter Highlights
64(1)
Study Questions
64(1)
Recommended Readings
65(1)
Internet Resources
65(1)
Theories of Senescence and Aging
66(15)
An Overview
66(1)
Senior View
67(1)
Programmed Theories
68(5)
Biological Clock
68(2)
Evolution
70(1)
Hormones
71(2)
A Middle Category
73(1)
Immune System
73(1)
Unprogrammed Theories
73(2)
Wear and Tear
73(1)
Free Radicals
74(1)
Project 4
75(1)
Garbage Accumulation
76(1)
Social Policy Applications
76(1)
DNA Damage and Repair
77(1)
All (Many) of the Above
77(2)
Chapter Highlights
79(1)
Study Questions
79(1)
Recommended Readings
80(1)
Internet Resources
80(1)
Health and Longevity
81(28)
Overview
81(2)
Box 5-1 Increasing Longevity in WEIRD Ways
82(1)
Factors Beyond One's Control
83(1)
Factors Within One's Control
84(2)
Diet
85(1)
Senior View
86(9)
Box 5-2 Determining Your Body Mass Index
89(1)
Exercise
89(2)
Box 5-3 Sweets for the Sweet
91(1)
Supplements
92(2)
Tobacco
94(1)
Project 5 Searching for the Fountain of Youth
95(2)
Alcohol
96(1)
Stress
96(1)
Other Factors
97(5)
Gender
97(3)
Race/Culture/SES
100(2)
Social Support
102(1)
Quality of Life
103(1)
Social Policy Applications
104(3)
Box 5-4 Estimating Your Own Life Expectancy
105(2)
Chapter Highlights
107(1)
Study Questions
107(1)
Recommended Readings
108(1)
Internet Resources
108(1)
PART TWO Aging and Our Minds
109(64)
Sensation, Perception, and Slowing with Age
111(19)
Sensation and Perception
111(1)
Vision
111(1)
Senior View
112(13)
Box 6-1 Older Drivers
115(1)
Hearing
115(3)
Smell, Taste, Touch, and Balance
118(2)
Slowing
120(3)
Falls
123(2)
Time
125(1)
Social Policy Applications
125(1)
Project 6
126(1)
Chapter Highlights
127(1)
Study Questions
128(1)
Recommended Reading
128(1)
Internet Resources
129(1)
Memory and Cognition
130(18)
An Overview of Memory Processing
130(2)
Sensory Memory
131(1)
Working Memory
131(1)
Senior View
132(3)
Box 7-1 A Walk Through the Library
133(1)
Long-Term Memory
133(1)
Memory System
134(1)
Memory and Aging
135(6)
Working Memory and Aging
135(1)
Long-Term Memory and Aging
136(2)
Box 7-2 Remembering Old Memories Better than New Memories
138(2)
Metamemory
140(1)
Project 7
141(4)
Memory Improvement
144(1)
Social Policy Applications
145(1)
Chapter Highlights
146(1)
Study Questions
147(1)
Recommended Readings
147(1)
Internet Resources
147(1)
Intelligence, Wisdom, and Creativity
148(25)
Intelligence
149(1)
Senior View
149(12)
What Is Intelligence?
150(1)
Age Differences in Intelligence
151(4)
Box 8-1 Terminal Drop
155(1)
Real-World Adult Intelligence
156(2)
Problem Solving
158(1)
Box 8-2 Problem Solving
159(1)
Selective Optimization with Compensation
159(1)
Expertise
160(1)
Box 8-3 Examples of Selective Optimization with Compensation
160(1)
Social Policy Applications
161(1)
Wisdom
162(2)
Creativity
164(5)
Project 8
169(1)
What Can We Conclude?
169(1)
Chapter Highlights
169(1)
Study Questions
170(1)
Recommended Readings
171(1)
Internet Resources
171(2)
PART THREE Aging and Our Selves
173(102)
Personality
175(30)
An Overview of Personality
175(1)
Senior View
176(6)
Measures of Personality
177(2)
Levels of Personality
179(1)
Traits
179(1)
Five-Factor Theory of Personality
179(1)
Age Difference in Traits
180(2)
Personal Concerns
182(1)
Box 9-1 Traits and Fears of Aging
182(1)
Project 9 Age/Cohort Differences in Personal Concerns
183(12)
Erikson's Stages of Lifespan Development
184(4)
Box 9-2 Age and Androgyny
188(1)
Age Differences in Coping
188(1)
Two Views
189(1)
Responding to Problems
189(3)
Control
192(3)
Identity
195(6)
Box 9-3 A Life Story
198(1)
Personality, Health, and Well-Being
199(2)
Social Policy Applications
201(2)
Chapter Highlights
203(1)
Study Questions
203(1)
Recommended Readings
204(1)
Internet Resources
204(1)
Relationships
205(36)
Social Support
205(1)
Senior View
206(3)
Project 10 Social Networks
209(4)
Family Relationships
213(17)
Marriage, Gay/Lesbian Unions, Divorce, and Remarriage
213(4)
Box 10-1 Elder Abuse
217(4)
Sexual Relations
221(3)
Siblings
224(2)
Intergenerational Relationships
226(3)
Box 10-2 Custodial Grandparents
229(1)
Friends
230(4)
Religion
234(1)
Social Policy Applications
235(3)
Box 10-3 Shepherd's Centers
237(1)
Isolation and Loneliness
238(1)
Chapter Highlights
239(1)
Study Questions
239(1)
Recommended Readings
240(1)
Internet Resources
240(1)
Work and Retirement
241(34)
Work
241(2)
Injury and Absence
242(1)
Senior View
243(7)
Job Performance
245(2)
Learning New Procedures
247(1)
Job Satisfaction
248(1)
Job Discrimination
248(2)
Project 11 Discrimination Against Older Workers
250(4)
Retirement
254(16)
Demographics of Retirement
254(4)
Phases of Retirement
258(1)
Box 11-1 Some Top Retirement Locations
259(2)
Box 11-2 People in Different Phases of Retirement
261(1)
Adjustment to Retirement
262(1)
Box 11-3 Cultural Differences in Retirement
263(7)
Social Policy Applications
270(1)
Chapter Highlights
271(1)
Study Questions
272(1)
Recommended Readings
272(1)
Internet Resources
273(2)
PART FOUR Aging and Our Survival
275(100)
Psychopathology
277(40)
Overview
277(2)
Alcohol Abuse
278(1)
Senior View
279(33)
Box 12-1 Alcoholism and Ethnicity
280(1)
Depression
281(6)
Suicide
287(2)
Acute Cognitive Disorders
289(4)
Dementia
293(1)
Box 12-2 Animal Dementias
294(1)
Less Frequent Forms of Dementia
294(3)
Vascular Dementia
297(1)
Parkinson's Disease
297(2)
Alzheimer's Dementia
299(11)
Box 12-3 Dementia Treatments Used by Families
310(1)
Caregiving
311(1)
Social Policy Applications
312(2)
Project 12 Be A Volunteer
314(1)
Chapter Highlights
314(1)
Study Questions
315(1)
Recommended Readings
316(1)
Internet Resources
316(1)
Healthy/Helpful Environments: Places and People
317(25)
How Spaces Become Places or How We Fit In
317(2)
Types of Person-Environment Congruence
318(1)
Senior View
319(14)
Where We Live in Old Age
321(1)
Box 13-1 Cultural Perspectives on Housing for Older Adults
322(3)
The Need for Assistance
325(1)
Community-Based Long-Term Care
326(1)
Box 13-2 Services for Elders at Home
326(2)
Box 13-3 Financing Long-Term Health Care
328(2)
Retirement Communities and Assisting Living
330(1)
Quality of Life in Institutional Environments
331(2)
Help or Enabling Environments
333(1)
Human Factors Approach
333(1)
Social Policy Applications
334(1)
Home Modifications
335(1)
Project 13 Check Out Your Home
335(7)
Box 13-4 When Is a Door Not a Door?
339(1)
Chapter Highlights
340(1)
Study Questions
340(1)
Recommended Reading
341(1)
Internet Resources
341(1)
Death and Bereavement
342(33)
Death
342(1)
Senior View
343(13)
Causes of Death
343(2)
Box 14-1 Death Around the World
345(1)
Advance Directives
346(1)
Box 14-2 Terri Schiavo
347(4)
Euthanasia
351(1)
Box 14-3 Physician Assisted Suicide
352(1)
Hospice
353(2)
The Dying Experience
355(1)
Bereavement
356(4)
Mourning
356(1)
Box 14-4 Selected Religious and Cultural Differences in Mourning
357(3)
Project 14 Plan Your Own Funeral
360(4)
Grief
360(4)
Social Policy Applications
364(6)
Support for the Bereaved
370(2)
Chapter Highlights
372(1)
Study Questions
373(1)
Recommended Readings
374(1)
Internet Resources
374(1)
PART FIVE Aging and You
375(22)
Looking to the Future
377(20)
Principles and Issues
377(1)
Senior View
378(1)
Age and Well-Being
379(3)
Project 15 Autobiography Project
382(2)
The Future
384(1)
Social Policy Applications
385(9)
Our Future Bodies
385(2)
Our Future Minds
387(3)
Our Future Selves
390(1)
Our Future Survival
391(3)
Chapter Highlights
394(1)
Study Questions
395(1)
Recommended Readings
396(1)
Internet Resources
396(1)
References 397(68)
Name Index 465(10)
Subject Index 475(12)
Photo Credits 487


Paul W. Foos, Emeritus Professor, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

M. Cherie Clark, Charles A. Dana Professor of Psychology, Queens University of Charlotte