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Title Promoting successful and productive aging / editors, Lynne A. Bond, Stephen J. Cutler, Armin Grams.

Publication Info. Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [1995]
©1995

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.26 P965PR    Check Shelf
Description ix, 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Primary prevention of psychopathology ; v. 16
Primary prevention of psychopathology ; v. 16.
Note Outgrowth of the Sixteenth Vermont Conference on the Primary Prevention of Psychopathology, held June 1993 at the University of Vermont.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents Part I. Introductory considerations. Primary prevention in the service of aging -- Questions that aging puts to preventionists -- The social construction of ageism -- Demography of productive aging. Part II. Successful and productive aging: organic factors. Prevention and chronic disease in older individuals -- Effects of age on resting energy expenditure -- Prospects for prevention of dementia and associated impairments. Part III. Psychosocial perspectives on competence and coping through aging. Autonomy and sense of control among older adults: an examination of their effects on mental health -- Informal social support -- Formal support in later life: lessons for prevention -- Stress and well-being in later life: using research findings to inform intervention design -- Promoting competence through compensation -- A life course approach to postretirement roles and well-being. Part IV. Comparative issues and perspectives. Issues affecting older women -- Promoting successful and productive aging in minority populations -- Lesbians and gay men also grow old -- Comparative perspectives on successful aging.
Subject Aging -- Congresses.
Older people -- Health and hygiene -- Congresses.
Older people -- Psychology -- Congresses.
Older people -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Indexed Term Ageing
Subject Aging -- Congresses.
Aged.
Health Promotion -- Congresses.
Added Author Bond, Lynne A., 1949-
Cutler, Stephen J.
Grams, Armin.
Vermont Conference on the Primary Prevention of Psychopathology (16th : 1993 : University of Vermont)
Added Title Aging
ISBN 0803971710 (acid-free paper)
0803971729 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
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