" This is the 20th and final volume in the Societal Impact on Aging series. It focuses on the continuing challenges for older persons in a rapidly changing society and forecasts the next set of issues at the intersection of social structures and the individual aging process. Major organizers of, and contributors to, the 19 earlier volumes discuss timely new topics and provide guidelines for future research and theoretical explanations. The book is divided into five broad topics: health and wellbeing, including the role ...
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" This is the 20th and final volume in the Societal Impact on Aging series. It focuses on the continuing challenges for older persons in a rapidly changing society and forecasts the next set of issues at the intersection of social structures and the individual aging process. Major organizers of, and contributors to, the 19 earlier volumes discuss timely new topics and provide guidelines for future research and theoretical explanations. The book is divided into five broad topics: health and wellbeing, including the role of religion; personality and cognition; the impact of changes in technology and the work place; issues of socio-cultural change and historical context; and the familial and societal contexts of aging. "
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 391 p. Contains: Unspecified, Tables, black & white, Figures. Social Impact on Aging. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2008009537 Type of material Book Main title Social structures and aging individuals: continuing challenges / K. Warner Schaie, Ronald P. Abeles, editors. Published/Created New York: Springer Pub. Company, 2008. Description xxiv, 391 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 9780826124081 (alk. paper) LC classification HQ1064. U5 S5982 2008 Related names Schaie, K. Warner (Klaus Warner), 1928-Abeles, Ronald P., 1944-Contents The waters we swim: everyday social processes, macro-structural 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 Almeida, Susan T. Charles, and Shevaun D. Neupert--From static to dynamic: the on-going dialectic about human development / Nilam Ram...[et al. ]--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: some comments / Freda Blanchard-Fields--Technology as multiplier effect for an aging work force / Neil Charness--No career for you: is that a good or bad thing? / David 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 Fry--The aging experience, social change, and television / Rukmalie Jayakody--Religion and intergenerational transmission over time / Vern L. Bengtson...[et al. ]--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 Bryant and Michelle Bragg. LC Subjects Aging--Social aspects--United States--Congresses. Aging--Psychological aspects--Congresses. Life cycle, Human--Social aspects--Congresses. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Dewey class no. 305.260973 Geographic area code n-us---
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