The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing

The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing, first published in 2005, is a guide to the body of knowledge, theory, policy and practice relevant to age researchers and gerontologists around the world. It contains almost 80 original chapters, commissioned and written by the world's leading gerontologists from 16 countries and 5 continents. The broad focus of the book is on the behavioural and social sciences but it also includes important contributions from the biological and medical sciences. It provides comprehensive, accessible and authoritative accounts of all the key topics in the field ranging from theories of ageing, to demography, physical aspects of ageing, mental processes and ageing, nursing and health care for older people, the social context of ageing, cross cultural perspectives, relationships, quality of life, gender, and financial and policy provision. This handbook will be a must-have resource for all researchers, students and professionals with an interest in age and ageing.

ISBN 0521533708   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780521533706 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1500 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Imprint Cambridge University Press   Series title Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780521826327 Publication date 01 Dec 2005   Height (mm) 253 Library of Congress HQ1061 .C315 2005   Width (mm) 304 DEWEY 305.26   Spine width (mm) 39 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly, Tertiary education Pages 772

		Foreword by Gary R. Andrews
		General editor's preface by Malcolm L. Johnson
		The problem of theory in gerontology today by Vern L. Bengtson and Norella M. Putney and Malcolm L. Johnson		3
		Ageing and changing : international historical perspectives on ageing by W. Andrew Achenbaum		21
		Global ageing : the demographic revolution in all cultures and societies by Alexandre Kalache and Sandhi Maria Barreto and Ingrid Keller		30
		The psychological science of human ageing by Paul B. Baltes and Alexandra M. Freund and Shu-Cren Li		47
		The biological science of human ageing by Thomas B. L. Kirkwood		72
		Biodemography and epidemiology of longevity by Bernard Jeune and Kaare Christensen		85
		The epidemiology of ageing by Christina Victor		95
		Patterns of illness and mortality across the adult lifepsan by Edlira Gjonca and Michael Marmot		106
		Sensory impairment by Tom H. Margrain and Mike Boulton		121
		Mobility and falls by Rose Anne Kenny		131
		The genetics of behavioural ageing by Gerald E. McClearn and Stephen A. Petrill		141
		Psychodynamic approaches to the lifecourse and ageing by Simon Biggs		149
		Cultural approaches to the ageing body by Chris Gilleard		156
		Promoting health and wellbeing in later life by Hannes B. Staehelin		165
		Psychological approaches to human development by Jutta Heckhausen		181
		Cognitive changes across the lifespan by Pat Rabbitt		190
		Age-related changes in memory by Elizabeth A. Maylor		200
		Intelligence and wisdom by Robert J. Sternberg and Elena L. Grigorenko		209
		Everyday competence in older adults by K. Warner Schaie and Julie B. Boron and Sherry L. Willis		216
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'... recommended to staff, students and professionals. ... the book is excellent value.' Ageing & Society '... the thinkers contributing to The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing offer us substantial hope that the 'incomplete biocultural architecture of lifespan development' can grow-and-defend in a positive direction. ... a new sense of uniqueness, inspiration, creative receptivity and equilibrium between the internal and external worlds of experience opens and allows for a new ethic of compassion, of giving of oneself to others.' Age and Ageing

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