| Description |
xxxvi, 473 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Images of aging / Jay Sokolovsky -- Japan's honorable elders / James S. O'Leary -- 'William' and the old folks / Mike Hepworth -- Old age as a time of decay / Carole Haber -- The sexless years or sex rediscovered / Benjamin Schlesinger -- The age boom / Jack Rosenthal -- The process of successful aging / Margret M. Baltes and Laura L. Carstensen -- Gender across generations / Margaret Hellie Huyck, Pninah Zucker, and Cheryl Angellaccio -- Definitions of femininity : youth to old age / Barbara Fromaniak Turner and Priyanthi Silva -- Narrative accrual and the life course / Marilyn Nouri and Marilyn Helterline -- My mother's music / Lydia Minatoya -- Adaptation of oldest old black Americans / Colleen L. Johnson -- History, race, and attachment to place / William J. McAuley -- You can go home again / Joan Weibel-Orlando -- Falling free / Diana Chang -- Having our say / Sarah Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hearth -- Incorporating diversity / Toni M. Calasanti -- Labor force trends and aging policy / William H. Crown and Charles F. Longino, Jr. -- Reasonable accommodation in the workplace / Lisa A. Hollis-Sawyer -- Puerto Rican obituary / Pedro Pietri -- The unbearable lightness of retirement / Joel Savishinsky -- Charles Hayes, 76, and Jessie de la Cruz, 74 / Studs Terkel -- A lifetime of work / Katherine R. Allen and Victoria Chin-Sang -- Too little, too late / Kathleen McInnis-Dittrich -- Same-sex and cross-sex relationships / Hiroko Akiyama, Kathryn Elliott, and Toni Antonucci -- Able elderly in the family context / Gunhild Ol Hagestad -- Parenting in later life / Marcene Goodman and Robert L. Rubinstein -- Intergenerational reciprocity / Susan R. Sherman -- The moths / Helena Maria Viramontes -- Research on grandparenting / Rachel A. Pruchno and Katrina W. Johnson -- The influence of ethnicity and culture on caregivers / María P. Aranda and Bob G. Knight -- A mother and daughter / Tish Somners and Laurie Shields -- Gendered caregiving of husbands and sons / Edward H. Thompson, Jr. -- Hand-me-down people / Jennifer Hand and Patricia Reid -- Ageism and its impact on health aging / Lynda D. Grant -- Rural Navajo and Anglo elders aging well / Judith Bunnell Sellers -- Assessment of geriatric patients / Patricia P. Barry -- Incipient dementia : a victim's perspective / Morris Friedell -- Anticipatory dementia and well-being / Lynne Gershenson Hodgson and Stephen J. Cutler -- Burdens and boundaries / Leslie A. Morgan and J. Kevin Eckert -- Patrimony / Philip Roth -- Psychodynamic perspective : physician-assisted suicide / Philip R. Muskin -- Health care struggle between young and old / Daniel Callahan -- Healthcare costs around the world / Robert H. Binstock -- Social security and aging baby boomers / Eric R. Kingson -- Aging population will broaden our understanding of medicine / Charles F. Longino, Jr. -- New challenges for gerontology / Meredith Minkler -- Aging in the twenty-first century / Matilda White Riley. |
| Subject |
Aging -- Social aspects.
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Aging -- Psychological aspects.
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Aging -- Government policy.
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| Added Author |
Markson, Elizabeth Warren.
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Hollis-Sawyer, Lisa A., 1963-
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| ISBN |
189148706X paperback alkaline paper |
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9781891487064 paperback alkaline paper |
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