In Ageing Well Frances Macnab shares his 4 P’s for flourishing while ageing: Plan, Purpose, Possibilities, and Pleasure. This easy to read guide to living your later years of life to the fullest is a thoughtful exploration for anyone experiencing this time of life themselves or for those caring for or with loved ones at this stage of life.
Addresses the key issues around mobility and transportation for the aging Baby Boomer generation - issues that will be significantly different than those of previous generations of older adults. This volume examines many of the issues faced by policymakers, transportation officials, vehicle manufacturers, health and human services professionals, ......
Research documents that rural elders are poorer, live in less adequate housing, and have far fewer health and service options available to them than their urban counterparts, yet there is a critical lack of current and detailed information on the problems facing rural elders and on the professional practices that serve this population. This text ......
Presenting research in the biology of aging, this volume addresses theoretical issues, focusing on the basis for why humans live as long as they do. Topics explored include: why does aging occur; cellular aging; models in aging research; modern approaches to the mechanisms of aging; and the genetics of behavioral aging.
In "Integrating Aging Topics into Psychology", leading teacher-scholars provide guidance about ageing topics in the core psychology curriculum, as well as in more specialized areas, such as gender and industrial organizational psychology.
In older adults, negative health events occur not because cures for diseases are not available or because proper treatment was not applied, but because patients fail to follow the medical instructions or regimens that maintain their health. This book examines the research on nonadherence using a cognitive, social, and developmental framework.
Drawing on the Pathways to Life Quality longitudinal research study, Krout (director, Gerontology Institute, Ithaca College) and Wethington (co-director, Cornell Gerontology Research Institute) explore the ways in which older adults' residential choices impact their health and well-being, in setting
Based on a study of a diverse group of 51 older widowers, this book sets widowhood within the context of life experience and identifies characteristics and patterns of behaviour that contribute to widowers' success, or lack of it, in adjusting satisfactorily to their circumstances.