Newly revised and updated, this classic text examines the impact of social forces on the aging process. It considers aging from personal, family, community, societal, and global perspectives. This sixth edition reflects significant changes in the field of social gerontology.
Provides materials to detect, prevent, and intervene with older adults who are at-risk and problem drinkers. Including guides to alcohol screening and protocols for managing withdrawal care, this book is designed as a text for use in primary and mental health care settings. It is useful for professionals such as psychologists and case managers.
Focus on Managed Care and Quality Assurance Integrating Acute and Chronic Care
Provide an overview of each component of the acute and long-term care service continuum, including managed health care, subacute care, and nursing homes. This volume addresses the practices in long-term care financing and assisted living. It is useful for professionals involved in long-term care, including administration, and community nursing.
Incorporates the knowledge from general psychology into a comprehensive view of emotion in adult development and aging. This work provides an overview of emotion across the life-span. It is useful for general psychologists, gerontologists, researchers, and geriatric practitioners desiring to better their understanding of their older patients.
Focus on Psychopharmacologic Interventions in Late Life
Brings together research findings on common mental disorders in the elderly. This work addresses methodological issues and raises concerns for researchers in the field, such as how best to design and implement large clinical studies. It also focuses on treatment for specific diseases such as late life depression, substance abuse, and psychosis.
Focus on the End of Life: Scientific and Social Issues
The study of ""the end of life"" has become a major focus on medicine, the social sciences, ethics, and religion. This volume brings together the various research on issues around death and dying, life's attributes as it nears death, planning and preparation for death, and care and intervention-related issues.
Presenting research in the biology of aging, this volume addresses theoretical issues, focusing on the basis for why humans live as long as they do. Topics explored include: why does aging occur; cellular aging; models in aging research; modern approaches to the mechanisms of aging; and the genetics of behavioral aging.
Focusing on the economics of aging, this book emphasizes on the economic future of the baby boom generation. Key themes include: the influence of early advantages on later-life economic outcomes; the relationship between inequalities in economic status and inequalities in health status and access to health care; and more.
Examining the importance of time and place, as applied to aging families, this book demonstrates how the social, cultural, historical, and institutional forces orient older and younger family members toward each other. It focuses on the temporal dimension of intergenerational relations, using frameworks from sociology and social history.
