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Title New directions in the sociology of aging / Panel on New Directions in Social Demography, Social Epidemiology, and the Sociology of Aging ; Linda J. Waite and Thomas J. Plewes, editors ; Committee on Population, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies
Published Washington, D.C. : The National Academy Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 299 pages) : illustrations
Contents ""FrontMatter""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""PART I: FINAL REPORT""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction and Approach""; ""2 A Conceptual Model of Aging for the Next Generation of Research""; ""3 Data Needs and Opportunities""; ""4 Roadblocks and Bridges to Transdisciplinary Research""; ""References""; ""Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members""; ""PART II: PAPERS""; ""5 Introduction and Overview -- Linda J. Waite""; ""6 The New Realities of Aging: Social and Economic Contexts -- Jacqueline L. Angel and Richard A. Settersten, Jr.""
""7 Research Opportunities in the Demography of Aging -- Melissa Hardy and Vegard Skirbekk""""8 Networks, Neighborhoods, and Institutions: An Integrated “Activity Space� Approach for Research on Aging -- Kathleen A. Cagney, Christopher R. Browning, Aubrey L. Jackson, and Brian Soller""; ""9 Constrained Choices: The Shifting Institutional Contexts of Aging and the Life Course -- Phyllis Moen""; ""10 Opportunities and Challenges in the Study of Biosocial Dynamics in Healthy Aging -- Tara L. Gruenewald""
""11 The Loyal Opposition: A Commentary on “Opportunities and Challenges in the Study of Biosocial Dynamics in Healthy Aging� -- Maxine Weinstein, Dana A. Glei, and Noreen Goldman""""12 Social Genomics and the Life Course: Opportunities and Challenges for Multilevel Population Research -- Michael J. Shanahan""; ""13 The Challenge of Social Genomics: A Commentary on “Social Genomics and the Life Course: Opportunities and Challenges for Multilevel Population Research� -- Jason Schnittker""
""14 Interventions to Promote Health and Prevent Disease: Perspectives on Clinical Trials Past, Present, and Future -- S. Leonard Syme and Abby C. King""""Committee on Population""
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Population aging -- Social aspects -- United States
Population aging -- Economic aspects -- United States
Population aging -- Health aspects -- United States
Aging.
Older people.
Aging
Aged
Population Dynamics
Socioeconomic Factors
Sociology -- methods
Aged, 80 and over
elderly.
Older people
Aging
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Waite, Linda J., editor
Plewes, Thomas J., editor
National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on New Directions in Social Demography, Social Epidemiology, and the Sociology of Aging, issuing body.
ISBN 0309292980
9780309292986