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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.
Economic Outcomes in Later Life - Public Policy, Health and Cumulative Advantage
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.
During the past few decades, the dramatic social changes with regard to our aging population and changes in the family unit have made both demographic and socioeconomic consequences, as well as an effect on matters of social policy. The prestigious editors, George L. Maddox and M. Powell Lawton, have assembled an impressive group of expert ......
The second volume in this long-running series presents the usual critical and intensive review chapters divided into five sections but also addresses particular topics of special interest, including drugs and their use, and misuse, among the aged; the nonmedication orientation to treatment of various disorders; the immune system; and clinical ......
Helps readers see the local problem and concern of aging as a global epidemic affecting all areas of the health care workplace. This title is written for expert administrative leaders and policymakers who can help make a difference at both local and regional levels.
Crown of Life - Dynamics of the Early Post-retirement Period
Contributed by experts, this volume presents some of the important research describing life between the ages of 65-75 or the Crown of Life period. It incorporates some of the important data to address important issues of the early post-retirement period. It includes topics that cover aspects and social issues of retirement and ""The Third Age"".
Life-Course Perspectives on Late Life Health Inequalities
It is recognized that an individual's experience of old age is fundamentally influenced by their earlier life experiences. This title presents an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of the Life Span and the Life Course perspectives on health disparities in aging populations, examining them in the context of a changing structure of society.
