| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 391 pages) : illustrations |
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Societal impact on aging |
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Societal impact on aging.
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| Contents |
The waters we swim : everyday social processes, macrostructural realities, and human aging / Dale Dannefer -- To act or not to act : using statistics or feelings to reduce disease risk, morbidity, and mortality / Howard Leventhal, Tamara J. Musumeci, and Elaine A. Leventhal -- Religion, health, and health behavior / Neal Krause -- Commentary : assessing health behaviors across individuals, situations, and time / David M. Almeida, Susan Turk Charles, and Shevaun D. Neupert -- From static to dynamic : the ongoing dialectic about human development / Nilam Ram [and others] -- Those who have, get : social structure, environmental complexity, intellectual functioning, and self-directed orientations in the elderly / Carmi Schooler and Leslie J. Caplan -- Commentary : personality, emotion, and cognition / Freda Blanchard-Fields -- Technology as multiplier effect for an aging workforce / Neil Charness -- No career for you : is that a good or bad thing? / David J. Ekerdt -- Commentary : new employment structures : varieties of impact on aging workers / James L. Farr and Alexander R. Schwall -- Aging, history, and the course of life : social structures and cultural meanings / Thomas Cole, W. Andrew Achenbaum, and Nathan Carlin -- Cultural transformations, history, and the experiences of aging / Christine L. Fry -- The aging experience, social change, and television / Rukmalie Jayakody -- Religion and intergenerational transmission over time / Vern L. Bengtson [and others] -- How have social institutional forces shaped family structure and well-being over the past 50 years? / Mark D. Hayward -- Commentary : marital trends and familial influences : toward developing an understanding of context / Chalandra M. Bryant and Michelle L. Bragg |
| Summary |
This is the 20th and final volume in the "Societal Impact on Aging" series. It focuses on what has been learned over the span of the previous volumes regarding the continuing challenges for older persons in a rapidly changing society and tries to forecast what may be the next set of issues to lie at the intersection of social structures and the individual aging process. The editors therefore invited major organizers of, and contributors to, the 19 earlier volumes to review both the accomplishments and omissions of their efforts, discuss some timely new topics, and provide guidelines |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Aging -- Social aspects -- United States -- Congresses
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Aging -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses
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Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects -- Congresses
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Life change events.
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Aging.
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Social ecology.
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Health behavior.
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Older people.
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Life Change Events
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Aging
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Socioeconomic Factors
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Social Environment
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Health Behavior
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Aged
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Aged, 80 and over
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human ecology.
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elderly.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gerontology.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Aging.
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Social ecology
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Older people
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Life change events
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Health behavior
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Aging
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Aging -- Psychological aspects
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Aging -- Social aspects
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Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects
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United States
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Schaie, K. Warner (Klaus Warner), 1928-
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Abeles, Ronald P., 1944-
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| ISBN |
9780826124098 |
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0826124097 |
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1281811483 |
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9781281811486 |
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9786611811488 |
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6611811486 |
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