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Focuses on how longer life expectancies will change the fabric of soci ety and individual lives. Examines the latest theories and research o n how aging affects a wide variety of aspects -- memory, social relati onships, emotion, and mental health.

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• Contributors(p. vii)
• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Chapter 1. Psychology and the Aging Revolution(p. 3)
• Chapter 2. Using the Gift of Long Life: Psychological Implications of the Age Revolution(p. 11)
• I. Neuropsychology and Cognitive Aging
• Chapter 3. Neuropsychology and Cognitive Aging: What Have We Taught Each Other?(p. 25)
• Chapter 4. Toward a Neuropsychology of Cognitive Aging(p. 43)
• II. Memory and Aging
• Chapter 5. Memory Changes in Adulthood(p. 73)
• Chapter 6. Can Acquired Knowledge Compensate for Age-Related Declines in Cognitive Efficiency?(p. 99)
• III. Emotion and Aging
• Chapter 7. Expressive, Physiological, and Subjective Changes in Emotion Across Adulthood(p. 123)
• IV. Social Relationships in Later Life
• Chapter 8. What Is Being Optimized?: Self-Determination Theory and Basic Psychological Needs(p. 145)
• Chapter 9. The Evolution of Social Relationships in Later Adulthood(p. 173)
• V. Health Psychology and Aging
• Chapter 10. A Behavioral Medicine Perspective on Aging and Health(p. 197)
• Chapter 11. Aging Research and Health: A Status Report(p. 207)
• VI. Depression and Aging
• Chapter 12. Depression: Current Developments and Controversies(p. 223)
• Chapter 13. Variations on Depression in Later Life(p. 239)
• VII. Psychotherapy and Aging
• Chapter 14. Psychotherapy and Aging in the 21st Century: Integrative Themes(p. 259)
• Author Index(p. 287)
• Subject Index(p. 305)
• About the Editors(p. 313)

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Looking at critical psychological aspects of aging (mostly among healthy populations), Qualls (Univ. of Colorado, Colorado Springs) and Abeles (Michigan State Univ.) explore how memory, health, thinking, and relationships change with age. Though the US is a youth-oriented culture, many Americans live 76 years and more; they enjoy decades after retirement, but they also worry about aging. Older adults are often slow thinkers, but data from neuropsychology, cognition, and memory highlight ways that knowledge may compensate for age-related cognitive declines. Although most chapters provide ponderous reviews of conflicting research, Leah Light's review of memory and John Norcross and Bob Knight's discussion of psychotherapy are easy to read, thought provoking and enjoyable. Other contributors consider social relationship, health psychology, depression, and psychotherapy. Robert Levenson concludes that healthy adults' emotions improve with age. In their essay, Richard Ryan and Jennifer LaGuardia explain how adults preserve well-being and basic needs despite inevitable social loss. Both Thomas Joiner and Margaret Gatz explore whether depression is a looming epidemic or a rare, overestimated, and undertreated disorder among older adults. A useful volume for all libraries serving professionals and the general public and for academic collections supporting the study of psychology and coursework intersecting with issues of aging. S. M. Valente; University of Southern California