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Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives de Carolyn M. Aldwin

Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives

Autor Carolyn M. Aldwin, Diane F. Gilmer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 27 aug 2003
This book undertakes the difficult task of assembling an objective and holistic picture of human aging, including the physical aspects of aging, chronic disease, and health promotion in the later years, for students and professionals. The authors provide comprehensive, multi-disciplinary coverage of the demography of the aging population, theories of aging, and physical aging, including normal age-related changes, disease-related processes, and promotion of optimal aging. They also cover psychosocial aspects of aging, including mental health, stress and coping, and spirituality, as well as care giving in later years. Features:
- a comprehensive approach, with coverage of psychosocial factors that affect physical health in addition to biological aspects of aging, thus providing integrated coverage of information from the fields of biology, psychology, and the social sciences
- coverage of issues in healthcare systems
- case studies in each chapter to augment student understanding with real-life examples
- discussions of methodological issues in some of the research presented to help students become more critical consumers of research and data.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780761922599
ISBN-10: 0761922598
Pagini: 440
Dimensiuni: 187 x 232 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: SAGE Publications
Colecția Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

"Gaining understanding of aging is one of the most complex issues facing twenty-first century science. This book addresses the complexity of the factors that interact and influence the course of our longer life expectancy….How we humans grow old is a product of our genetic background as members of a species and our families. But the genome expresses itself in physical and social environments that modulate the appearance of heredity traits. In a sense aging is an ecological problem in which the dynamics are often difficult to explain….This book brings information from the sciences together in a way that is rarely done…..It provides an integration of knowledge about the dynamics of aging and can promote wisdom about how we can modify the life course to our advantage."

Cuprins

1. Introduction & Basic Concepts
Basic Definitions
Organization of the Book
2. Demography of Aging
Aging in the World
Population in the United States
Demographic Factors and Rate of Aging
3. Theories of Aging
Biological Theories of Aging
Psychosocial Theories and Aging
Psychosocial Factors and Aging
4. Understanding Change in Aging Research
Basic Definitions
Age-Related Designs
Statistics for Assessing Change
Statistics That Predict Change
5. Aging of the Skin and Musculoskeletal System
The Skin
Musculoskeletal System
6. Aging of the Internal Organ Systems
Cardiovascular System
Respiratory System
Gastrointestinal System
Renal/Urinary System
7. Aging and the Regulatory Systems
Sensory Systems
Nervous System
Endocrine System
Immune System
8. Functional Health, Health Promotion, and Quality of Life
Functional Health
Health Promotion in Older Adults
Quality of Life
9. Interface Between Physical and Mental Health
Personality Processes and Disease
Alcohol and Aging
Differentiating Mental and Physical Health Problems
10. Stress, Coping, and Health
Stress
Coping with Stress
11. Social Support, Health, and Aging
Characteristics of the Social Support Network
Social Support, Morbidity, and Mortality
Caregiving
12. What is Optimal Aging
Models of Optimal Aging
Wisdom and Optimal Aging
Religiosity, Spirituality, and Optimal Aging
Ars Moriendi - The Art of Dying
References
Author Index
Subject Index

Notă biografică

Dr. Carolyn Aldwin is Chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Prior to that, she was Professor of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis. She received her doctorate from the University of California at San Francisco, was a post-doctoral fellow in the Program in Social Ecology at the University of California at Irvine, and spent five years at the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study in Boston. She still collaborates with investigators on this study, and directs the Davis Longitudinal Study. She is currently co-editor for Psychology and Health, and was associate editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Her research on health and aging has been funded by the National Institute of Aging. She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, as well as the American Psychological Association in Divisions 20 (Adult Development and Aging) and 38 (Health Psychology). She is an avid cyclist and hiker.

Descriere

This book undertakes the difficult task of assembling an objective and holistic picture of human aging, including the physical aspects of aging, chronic disease, and health promotion in the later years, for students and professionals. The authors provide comprehensive, multi-disciplinary coverage of the demography of the aging population, theories of aging, and physical aging, including normal age-related changes, disease-related processes, and promotion of optimal aging. They also cover psychosocial aspects of aging, including mental health, stress and coping, and spirituality, as well as care giving in later years.