Gerontology : perspectives and issues

Preface Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction PART I. Aging Scholarship The Fountain of Gerontological Discovery, Janet Wilmoth and Ken Ferraro The Evolution of Gerontology as a Field of Scientific Inquiry, Ken Ferraro Demographic Perspectives on Aging, Janet Wilmoth and Charles Longino PART II. Physical Aspects of Aging Cellular and Organismal Aspects of Senescence and Longevity, David Waters Cognitive Aging, Aimee Suprenant and Ian Neath Disability Concepts and Measurement: Contributions of the Epidemiology of Disability to Gerontological Inquiry, Fredric Wolinsky and Doug Miller The Role of Nutrition in the Older Individual, Dorothy Morre Exercise and Aging, Michael Flynn PART III. Social Aspects of Aging Socioemotional Aspects of Aging, Karen Fingerman and Brooke Baker Age Structures, Aging, and the Life Course, Linda George Social Forces, Life-Course Consequences: Cumulative Disadvantage and "Getting Alzheimer's", Dale Dannefer and Kathryn Douthit Humanist Gerontology and the Meaning(s) of Age, Thomas Cole and Michelle Sierpina PART IV. Public Policy Retirement and Financial Security: An Economist Thinks Out Loud, Timothy Smeeding Social Lives in Later Life, Christine Himes and Ying Fang Politics and Policy in the Lives of Older Americans, Robert Hudson.

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