Gerontology

Changes, Challenges, and Solutions [2 volumes]

Madonna Harrington Meyer, Elizabeth A. Daniele (Herausgeber)

Media-Kombination

671 Seiten

2016
Praeger Publishers Inc
978-1-4408-3426-4 (ISBN)

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Written by established and emerging leaders in a broad array of disciplines, this two-volume set provides undergraduate and graduate students, scholars, professionals, and policymakers with an overview of the field of aging that examines the social landscape as well as key changes, challenges, and solutions.

The people who make up the rapidly growing population of Americans over age 65 are changing, and as a result, our nation will change. This shift presents new issues, controversies, and challenges that affect health, wellness, welfare, retirement, politics, and economics. This two-volume work examines where we are and where we are headed, paying careful attention to the differential impacts of gender, race, class, marital status, and other social variables. It considers key changes in demographics, old-age policies, families, work, and death and dying.

Volume one covers an array of demographic issues, policies, and politics, highlighting how factors such as gender and race shape families, income, retirement, immigrants, and veterans across the life course. The second volume covers education, religion, volunteering, exercise, nutrition, and health care policies across the life course. Topics addressed include the old-age welfare state, the extension of retirement age, home care, care work, nursing home care, end of life planning, and euthanasia.

Madonna Harrington Meyer, PhD, is professor and chair of sociology at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY. Elizabeth A. Daniele, MS, is a doctoral student and fellow in sociology at Syracuse University as well as coeditor of Student Involvement and Academic Outcomes: Implications for Diverse Student Populations.

Volume 2: Health and Wellbeing
Introduction
Madonna Harrington Meyer
Chapter One: Education across the Life Course
Elizabeth A. Daniele
Chapter Two: Creativity and Wisdom across the Life Course
Monika Ardelt and Carolyn E. Adams-Price
Chapter Three: Religion and Volunteering across the Life Course
Fengyan Tang
Chapter Four: Biology and Aging: A Primer
Donna J. Holmes
Chapter Five: Leading Causes of Morbidity and Mortality among Older Americans
Anna Zajacova and Vicki Johnson-Lawrence
Chapter Six: Mental Health, Cognitive Ability, and Dementia across the Life Course
Donna D. McAlpine and Taeho Greg Rhee
Chapter Seven: Unpaid Care Work
Eliza K. Pavalko and Joseph D. Wolfe
Chapter Eight: Elder Abuse
Joah L. Williams, Melba Hernandez-Tejada, Emily S. Fanguy, and Ron Acierno
Chapter Nine: Nursing Homes and the Continuum of Care
Stephanie W. Burge
Chapter Ten: End-of-Life and End-of-Life Planning
Megumi Inoue, Sara Keary, and Sara M. Moorman
Chapter Eleven: Grief and Bereavement
Deborah Carr
Appendix A: Organizations for Older Persons
Elizabeth A. Daniele
Appendix B: Documentaries about Aging
Elizabeth A. Daniele
Index
About the Editors and Contributors

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.4.2016
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	1588 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
Themenwelt	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Histologie / Embryologie
ISBN-10	1-4408-3426-1 / 1440834261
ISBN-13	978-1-4408-3426-4 / 9781440834264
Zustand	Neuware