Successful Aging
Successful Aging
Margret M. Baltes
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USDMore and more people live into old age. This demographic revolution underscores the fact that old age is the last uncharted and unattended phase of the life cycle. We know that old age is the last uncharted and unattended phase of the life cycle. We know very little about the strengths and weaknesses of old age or how to achieve a good balance between gains and losses, a meaningful conclusion to life. The fourth volume in a series sponsored by the European Science Foundation Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development, Successful Aging presents in its first section general overviews on successful aging from psychological, sociological, and medical perspectives. The volume's second part focuses on selected areas of human functioning, such as intelligence, memory, athletics, life satisfaction, personal control, coping with illness and loss, widowhood, and mental health. The authors of the various chapters share in the view that aging is not identical with fate, but that individuals play a major role in designing their own process of aging.
Reviews & endorsements
"The high quality of both the theoretical and empirical essays make this an up-to-date and valuable contribution to the life-course literature." Choice
"Anyone interested in aging and the behavioral sciences will find this text to be of the most interest." BIOSIS
"...useful to geriatricians, neurologists, and psychiatrists interested in the cognitive and psychosocial aspects of successful aging. It is very useful for academically oriented health care workers in the areas of nursing, psychology, and social work....offers concrete evidence for the usefulness of longitudinal research in more accurately determining what actually happens to individuals as they age...." Elizabeth L. Rogers, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
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March 2011Adobe eBook Reader
9780511876264
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Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Psychological perspectives on successful aging: the model of selective optimization with compensation
- 2. Medical perspectives upon successful aging
- 3. Successful aging in a post-retired society
- 4. The optimization of cognitive functioning in old age: predictions based on cohort-sequential and longitudinal data
- 5. The optimization of episodic remembering in old age
- 6. Peak performance and age: an examination of peak performance in sports
- 7. Personal control over development and quality of life perspectives in adulthood
- 8. Successful mastery of bereavement and widowhood: a life-course perspective
- 9. The Bonn longitudinal study of aging: coping, life adjustment, and life satisfaction
- 10. Risk and protective factors in the transition to young adulthood
- 11. Avoiding negative life outcomes: evidence from a forty-five year study
- 12. Developing behavioural genetics and successful aging
- Name index
- Subject index.
