Society and Aging Series
Aging Families in Chinese Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Merril D. Silverstein
January 29, 2024
Declining fertility rates and increased life expectancies over the last few decades have conspired to make China one of the more rapidly aging societies in the world. Aging Families in Chinese Society focuses on the accelerated social and demographic changes in China and examines their implications...
Life-Course Implications of US Public Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Janet M. Wilmoth, Andrew London
May 25, 2021
There is a complex set of public policies and associated programs that constitute the social safety net in the United States. In Life-Course Implications of U.S. Public Policies, the authors encourage others to systematically consider the influence of policies and programs on lives, aging, and the ...
Dying in Old Age: U.S. Practice and Policy
1st Edition
By Sara Moorman
September 15, 2020
Three-quarters of deaths in the U.S. today occur to people over the age of 65, following chronic illness. This new experience of "predictable death" has important consequences for the ways in which societies structure their health care systems, laws, and labor markets. Dying in Old Age: U.S. ...
Rural Health and Aging Research: Theory, Methods, and Practical Applications
1st Edition
By Wilbert Gesler, Donna Rabiner, Gordon Defriese
April 16, 2019
This book describes a wide-ranging set of research approaches which have been used to study the health care problems of adults living in rural areas. It shows how these approaches can be used to define health care problems, measure levels of illness and health, and evaluate health care practices. ...
Beyond Gender Differences: Adaptation to Aging in Life Course Perspective
1st Edition
By Laurie Russell Hatch
January 30, 2019
Putting gender in a lifespan context, Hatch (sociology, U. of Kentucky) atypically accents the gains as well as losses of aging and sex differences in adaptation overall, to the death of a spouse, and to retirement. From the multifactored theoretical perspectives of symbolic interactionism and polit...
Staying Put: Adapting the Places Instead of the People
1st Edition
By Susan Lanspery, Joan Hyde
January 29, 2019
Most existing housing offers a poor fit for older people and people with disabilities, and new construction adds less than 2 per cent to the housing each year. Ninety-nine percent of the housing that will be in use in the year 2000 exists today. The long-needed anthology "Staying Put: Adapting the ...
Lives in Time and Place: The Problems and Promises of Developmental Science
1st Edition
By R. A. Settersten
December 19, 2018
Time and place are of the greatest significance for scientific inquiry about human lives. As we seek to better understand the nature and rhythm of the life course in modern societies, its effective analysis and explanation simultaneously becomes more pressing and more complicated. This information ...
Lessons on Aging from Three Nations: The Art of Caring for Older Adults
1st Edition
By Sara Carmel, Carol A. Morse, Fernando M. Torres-Gil, Jon Hendricks
August 14, 2018
The global phenomenon of the aging of societies during a period of outstanding scientific, economic, and technological advancements is a blessing for humanity. These fundamental changes, however, create new needs and problems in all areas of life, often difficult to address. In some countries, the ...
Soul Pain: The Meaning of Suffering in Later Life
1st Edition
By Helen Black
August 14, 2018
This book explores the multifaceted experience of suffering in old age. Older adults suffer from a variety of causes such as illness, loss, and life disappointment, to name a few. Suffering also occurs due to experiences related to one's gender, ethnic background, and religion. Although ...
The Gerontological Prism: Developing Interdisciplinary Bridges
1st Edition
By Jeffrey Michael Clair, Richard Allman
August 14, 2018
"The Gerontological Prism" promotes disciplinary cooperation in aging research and practice. To some extent, each chapter explores a unified objective, that of generating a disciplinary-blind gerontology. The fundamental assumption throughout this book is that the aging individual and society can ...
Later-Life Social Support and Service Provision in Diverse and Vulnerable Populations: Understanding Networks of Care
1st Edition
Edited
By Janet M. Wilmoth, Merril D. Silverstein
June 16, 2017
Later-Life Social Support and Service Provision in Diverse and Vulnerable Populations offers current, multidisciplinary perspectives on social support and service provision to older Americans. The chapters trace how our understanding of social support among older adults has developed over the past&...
Invitation to the Life Course: Towards new understandings of later life
1st Edition
By Richard Settersten
March 29, 2017
Invitation to the Life Course: Toward New Understandings of Later Life discusses in depth the challenges of age, time, and social contexts for the study of aging and later life. Understanding aging (as a process) and later life (as a period) must be accompanied by serious attention to the life ...