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The sixth edition of this student friendy textbook provides both a thorough explanation of the issues, as well as current research and controversies, exploring health care, socioeconomic trends, and the life course.

This thoroughly revised new edition contains nine new readings, over 35 new photographs and an instructor′sresource CD.

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• About the Author/Editor
• Preface
• Prologue
• Note to Students
• Basic Concepts I A Life Course Perspective On Aging
• Age Identification
• The Stages of Life
• The Life Course and Aging
• Life Transitions
• Theories of Aging
• Modernization Theory
• Disengagement Theory
• Activity Theory
• Influences on the Life Course
• Social Class and Life History
• Social Institutions and Policies
• Aging in the 21st Century
• Time and the Life Course
• The Moral Economy of the Life Course
• The Biology of Aging
• The New Science of Longevity
• Mechanisms of Physical Aging
• Wear and Tear
• Free Radicals
• The Immune System
• Aging and Psychological Functioning
• Self-concept and Social Relationships
• Social Roles
• Cognitive Functioning
• Conclusion
• Toward a New Map of Life
• Controversy 1 Does Old Age Have Meaning?
• The Meaning of Age
• Leisure Activities in Later Life
• Changing Leisure Participation Patterns
• Explaining Patterns of Leisure
• Religion and Spirituality
• Spiritual Practice and Religious Participation Over the Life Course
• Spiritual Belief, Religious Participation, and Well-Being
• Spirituality and the Search for Meaning
• Social Gerontology and the Meaning of Age
• The Meaning of Aging in the 21st Century
• Activity or Reflection?
• Focus on Practice: Reminiscence and Life Review
• Readings
• The Coming of Age
• Vital Involvement in Old Age
• Successful Aging
• The Measure of My Days
• Controversy 2 Why Do Our Bodies Age?
• The Process of Biological Aging
• Biological Theories of Aging
• Wear-and-Tear Theory
• Autoimmune Theory
• Aging-Clock Theory
• Cross-Linkage Theory
• Free Radicals
• Cellular Theory
• Is Aging Inevitable?
• Ways to Prolong the Life Span
• Environmental Approach
• Genetic Approach
• Compression or Prolongation of Morbidity?
• Focus on Practice: Health Promotion
• Readings
• Why Do We Live As Long As We Do?
• Vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve
• We Will Be Able to Live to 1,000
• Don't Fall for the Cult of Immortality
• The Compression of Morbidity Hypothesis: A Review of Research and Prospects for the Furure
• Health Trends in the Elderly Population: Getting Better and Getting Worse
• Focus on the Future: "I Dated a Cyborg!"
• Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate
• Controversy 3 Does Intellectual Functioning Change With Age?
• Elements of Cognitive Functioning
• The Classic Aging Pattern
• Measures of Intelligence in Later Life
• Studies of Age and Cognitive Function
• Memory and Aging
• Correlates of Cognitive Stability
• Mature Cognition
• Focus on Practice: Older-Adult Education
• Readings
• Age and Achievement
• Age and Achievement: A Critique
• Growing Old or Living Long: Take Your Pick
• The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain
• Aging
• Focus on the Future: Late-life Learning in the Information Society
• Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate
• Basic Concepts II Aging, Health Care, and Society
• The Challenge of Longevity
• The Case of the Struldbruggs
• Normal Aging
• Longevity and Disease
• Epidemiology of Aging
• Major Diseases in Old Age
• Responses to the Geriatric Diseases
• Economics of Health Care
• Reimbursement Systems
• Prospects for the Future
• Long-term Care
• Housing for Older Adults
• Chronic Care in Old Age
• Functional Assessment
• The Continuum of Care
• Paying for Long-term Care: An American Dilemma
• Self-Determined Death
• Late-Life Suicide
• Conclusion
• Controversy 4 Should We Ration Health Care for Older People?
• Precedents for Health Care Rationing
• The Justification for Age-Based Rationing
• Rationing as a Cost-Savings Plan
• The Impetus for Rationing
• Cost Versus Age
• Alternative Approaches to Rationing
• Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
• The Debate Over Age-Based Rationing
• Focus on Practice: Managed Care
• Readings
• Why We Must Set Limits
• Pricing Life: Why It's Time for Health Care Rationing
• The Pied Piper Returns for the Old Folks
• Letting Individuals Decide
• Aim Not Just for Longer Life, but Expanded "Health Span"
• Focus on the Future: Scenarios for Rationing: Fiction or Forecast?
• Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate
• Controversy 5 Should Families Provide for Their Own?
• Aging and the American Family
• Abandonment or Independence?
• Family Responsibility
• Medicaid and Long-Term Care
• Financing Long-Term Care
• Medicaid Planning
• Focus on Practice: Long-Term Care Insurance
• Readings
• Medicaid and Long-Term Care
• Shame of the Rich: Making Themselves Poor
• The Fallacy of Impoverishment
• The Case Against Paying Family Caregivers: Ethical and Practical Issues
• For Love and Money: Paying Family Caregivers
• Focus on the Future: Genetic Screening for Alzheimer's Disease?
• Questions to Ponder
• Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate
• Controversy 6 Should Older People Be Protected From Bad Choices?
• The Vulnerabilities of Older People
• Interfering When People Make Bad Choices
• Elder Abuse and Neglect
• Perceptions of Quality of Life
• Sexuality in Later Life
• Crime and Older Adults
• Intervention in the Lives of Vulnerable Older People
• Focus on Practice: Adult Protective Services
• Readings
• The Right to Freedom From Restraints
• Ethical Dilemmas in Elder Abuse
• A Legal Perspective on Elder Abuse
• Elder Self-Neglect: A Blurred Concept
• Focus on the Future: Inheritance in an Aging Society
• Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate
• Controversy 7 Should Older People Have The Choice To End Their Lives?
• Depression and Suicide
• The "Right to Die"
• Outlook on the Future
• Focus on Practice: Advanced Directives
• Readings
• Why Do People Seek Physician-Assisted Death?
• A Time to Die: The Place for Physican Assistance
• Last Rights: Aunty's Story
• Neither for Love or Money: Why Doctors Must Not Kill
• Focus on the Future: Neighborhood Suicide Clinics?
• Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate
• Basic Concepts III Social And Economic Outlook for An Aging Society
• The Varieties of Aging Experience
• Social Class
• Race and Ethnicity
• Gender and Aging
• Multiple Jeopardy
• Economic Well-Being
• The Economic Status of Older Americans
• Sources of Retirement Income
• Changing Financial Outlook
• Public Policy on Aging
• The Aging Network
• Aging Interest Groups
• Trends in Public Policy and Aging
• Conclusion
• Controversy 8 Should Age Or Need Be The Basis for Entitlement?
• A Tale of Two Generations
• Generational Equity
• Poverty Among the Old
• Poverty Among Children and Young People
• The Dependency Ratio
• Taxation and Generational Accounting
• Power and Competition for Scarce Resources
• The Least-Advantaged in the Older Population
• Help for Those Most in Need
• The Targeting Debate
• Focus on Practice: Intergenerational Programs
• Readings
• Growing Older
• Gray Dawn: Target Benefits on the Basis of Need
• "Generational Equity" and the New Victim Blaming
• The Generational Equity Debate
• Focus on the Future: Walled Retirement Villages?
• Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate
• Controversy 9 What Is The Future for Social Security?
• Main Features of Social Security
• Success-and Doubts
• Pay as You Go
• Social Security Trust Fund
• Eligibility
• Privatization
• Women and Social Security
• Debate Over Security
• Focus on Practice: Investment Decisions For Retirement Income
• Readings
• How to Save Social Security: A Balanced Approach
• The Necessity and Desirability of Social Security Reform
• Social Security Reform and Benefit Adequacy
• Social Security for Yesterday's Family?
• Focus on the Future: Two Scenarios for the Future of Social Security
• Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate
• Controversy 10 Is Retirement Obsolete?
• History of Retirement
• Origins of Late-Life Leisure
• Changes in the American Economy
• A New View of Retirement
• Productive Aging
• Debate Over Retirement Policy
• Focus on Practice: Pre-retirement Planning
• Readings
• Achieving a Productive Aging Society
• Prime Time
• The Busy Ethic: Moral Continuity Between Work and Retirement
• Moving Toward a Creative Retirement
• Focus on the Future: The U.S. Wisdom Corps?
• Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate
• Controversy 11 Aging Boomers: Boom Or Bust?
• Who are the Boomers?
• What is a Generation?
• Social Constructions of the Boomer Phenomenon
• Boomers in the Years Ahead
• Focus on Practice: Marketing to Aging Boomers
• Readings
• Boomsday
• No Country for Young Men
• The Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders
• The Long Baby Boom: An Optimistic Vision for a Graying Generation
• Focus on the Future
• Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate
• Epilogue
• Appendices
• A How to Research a Term Paper in Gerontology
• B Internet Resources on Aging
• C
• Bibliography
• Glossary/Index

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Harry R. Moody is a graduate of Yale University and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. He has taught philosophy at Columbia University, Hunter College, New York University, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. He recently retired as Vice President and Director of Academic Affairs for AARP in Washington, DC. He is currently Visiting Professor at Tohoku University in Japan, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Fielding Graduate University. Dr. Moody previously served as Executive Director of the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College and Chairman of the Board of Elderhostel (now Road Scholar). Moody is the author of over 100 scholarly articles, as well as a number of books including: Abundance of Life: Human Development Policies for an Aging Society (Columbia University Press, 1988) and Ethics in an Aging Society (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992). His most recent book, The Five Stages of the Soul , was published by Doubleday Anchor Books and has been translated into seven languages worldwide. He is the editor of a newsletter, "Human Values in Aging," reaching 10,000 subscribers each month. In 2011 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society on Aging and in 2008 he was named by Utne Reader Magazine as one of "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World."