Issues in Aging

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Successful aging: How can we create a better old age both for ourselves and others?
Issues in Aging, 2nd edition takes an optimistic view of aging and human potential in later life; it presents the most up-to-date facts on aging today, the issues raised by these facts, and the societal and individual responses that will create a successful old age for us all.

This text presents the full picture of aging- exhibiting both the problems and the opportunities and advantages that accompany older age. It aims to illustrate how generations are dependant on one another and how social conditions affect both the individual and social institutions.

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ISBN-13: 9780205578696
ISBN-10: 0205578691
Pagini: 504
Dimensiuni: 191 x 235 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Ediția:2Nouă
Editura: Pearson Education
Colecția Pearson Education
Locul publicării:Upper Saddle River, United States

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

1 Aging Today
     - Why Study Aging?
     - Ageism
     - Culture as a Source of Ageism
     - Some Facts on Aging Today
     - Responses to Ageism
     - Aging Today

2 Theories and Methods
     - The Study of Aging: Past and Present
     - Gerontology Research Today
     - Is Gerontology a Discipline?
     - Theories of Aging
     - Two Levels of Theories
     - Three Theoretical Perspectives
     - Research Issues and Methods
     - The Humanities
     - Ethical Issues in Research
     - The Future of Gerontological Theory and Methods

3 Aging at Other Times, in Other Places
     - Four Types of Societies
     - The Challenge of Population Aging
     - The Developed Nations
     - The Developing Nations

4 Demography
     - The Demographics of Population Aging
     - Increased Proportion of Older People
     - The Causes of Population Change
     - The Challenges of an Aging Population
     - The Impact of Population Aging

5 Personal Health and Well-Being
     - Biological Aging
     - Theories of Biological Aging
     - The Effects of Aging on Body Systems
     - Personal Health and Illness
     - Compression of Morbidity Hypothesis
     - Successful Aging

6 Life Span Development
     - Memory and Intelligence
     - New Models of Mental Ability in Later Life
     - Personality Development and the Self
     - Social Psychological Change
     - Psychological Disorders: Abnormal Aging
     - Social Breakdown and Reconstruction

7 Race and Ethnicity
     - Who Are the Minority Elderly?
     - Why Study Minority Aging?
     - Demographic Characteristics of Dominant and Minority Group Elders
     - Three Theories on Minority Group Aging
     - The Impact of Minority Group Membership on Aging
     - A Look at Four Minority Groups
     - Responses to Minority Group Aging

8 The Health Care System
     - Three Models of Health Care
     - The U.S. Health Care System Today
     - Long-term Care: A Response to Older People’s Needs
     - Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
     - Future Issues in Health Care

9 Finances and Economics
     - Historical Development of the U.S. Pension System
     - The U.S. Retirement Income System Today
     - The Impact of the Retirement Income System on Older People’s Incomes
     - Inequality in Later Life
     - Pension Reform
     - The Future

10 Retirement and Work
     - The Social Origins of Retirement
     - Retirement in the United States Today
     - Alternatives to Retirement
     - Personal Responses to Retirement
     - Preretirement Education
     - Social Structures and Retirement
    - The Future of Retirement

11 Housing and Transportation
     - Living Arrangements
     - An Ecological Model of Housing
     - Housing Options
     - The Future of Housing
     - Transportation

12 Leisure, Recreation, and Education
     - Leisure
     - New Activities in Old Age
     - Senior Centers
     - Education
     - Community Service and Volunteer Work

13 Family Life and Social Support
     - Part I: Family Life, Marriage, and Widowhood
     - Part II: Social Support

14 Death and Dying
     - Death and Society
     - Death in Old Age
     - Institutional Death
     - Changes in the Treatment of the Dying
     - Ethical Issues
     - Mourning and Grief

15 Politics and Policies
     - Voting
     - Holding Political Office
     - Advocacy
     - Activism
     - Government and Aging Policy
     - Generational Equity
     - The Future of Aging, Politics, and Policy

Appendix    Gerontology Careers
     - Gerontology Education
     - Work and Careers in Gerontology
     - Gerontology and You
     - Suggested Reading

Notă biografică

Mark Novak is Dean and Associate Vice President of the Department of International and Extended Studies at San Jose State University. He has a taught a course in Aging and Society for over 20 years.

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Issues in Aging, 2/E
Mark Novak, San JoseState University

ISBN-10: 0205578691
ISBN-13: 9780205578696

Successful aging: How can we create a better old age both for ourselves and others?

Issues in Aging, Second Edition takes an optimistic view of aging and human potential in later life; it presents the most up-to-date facts on aging today, the issues raised by these facts, and the societal and individual responses that will create a successful old age for us all.

This text presents the full picture of aging–exhibiting the problems as well as the opportunities and advantages that accompany older age. It aims to illustrate how generations are dependant on one another and how social conditions affect both the individual and social institutions.

Caracteristici

Comprehensive content. The text covers major theoretical and empirical issues in the field. It is written for an undergraduate audience, and provides clear explanations of issues and technical topics. The text contains detailed documentation of all sources used. It also contains an extensive bibliography, suggested extra sources to consult, and websites of interest for each chapter.

Common-sense chapter topics. The text is organized around common sense topic headings — housing, health, income, retirement, etc., rather than social scientific categories.

Focus on successful aging. The text presents the issues, but also shows the positive responses to the challenges of aging. A more upbeat look at older people gets younger students more engaged in the topic. Students enjoy the subjects and learn about human potential throughout life.

Focus on the reality of aging today. Today mostly the very old person aged 80 or 85+ shows the stereotypical signs of aging — dementia, frailty, poverty. Issues in Aging presents this information. But it also shows that most older people today have good health, remain physically and socially active, and have relatively good incomes.

Focus on the baby boom generation. The entry of the baby boom generation into later life will reshape everyone’s assumptions about aging. Issues in Aging uses the concept of the “third age” — the age after retirement before frailty sets in (the “fourth age”) — to describe the landscape of aging today. People in their 60s and 70s no longer fit the stereotype of aging. But they don’t fit the model of the middle aged worker either. Issues in Aging draws students’ attention to this new stage of life, sometimes called the “longevity bonus.”

Enriched content. The text provides a number of boxes, side bars, charts, graphs, cartoons, photos, case studies and examples, making the book easier for students to read, and for instructors to use.

Supplements package. Features PowerPoint slides based on charts in the book. This allows the Instructor to refer in class to the same material that students have. There is also in extensive IM that offers suggestions for in-class activities, projects, and discussion, as well as many essay questions. The TB offers an extensive bank of multiple choice questions.

Caracteristici noi

This edition has been thoroughly revised, with a sharpenned focus on successful aging, baby boomers, and an emphasis on the life course.

Issues in Aging – New material chapter by chapter

Chapter 1
New discussion of elderspeak on ageism
New examples of ageism
Baby Boomers and the new image of later life
The new mature consumer
Box - To Dye or Not to Die: That is the Question – issue of hiding signs of aging
Box - The Booming Boomer Market – marketing to the new generation of older people

Chapter 2
Expansion of life course discussion
Information Literacy: The Challenge of the Internet
Box - Education and Longevity: A Life Course Study

Chapter 3
New research by Carole Haber on history of aging in America
Box - Expansion and updating of Japan and China case studies

Chapter 4
Baby Boom new type of older person – critique of dependency ratio measure
Box - The Baby Boom – impact on the population
Box - New successful aging photos

Chapter 5
Computer use and technology and health
Environmental modification with high technology
Technology monitoring of older people; technology and support
Expanded section on exercise
New section on stress reduction
SOC model of successful aging
A life course model of successful aging
Anti-Aging Medicine and Science
Social Inequality and Personal Health
Box - Computer access and Computer and Internet Use, by Age: 2003
Box - Good Nutrition in Later Life
Box - Percent Distribution of People Aged 65 and Over Who Were Underweight, Healthy Weight, Overweight, and Obese by Age and Sex: 1999-2000

Chapter 6
Memory and Everyday Life: The Study of Reading
Expansion of wisdom section
Creativity
Expansion of spirituality section
Box - Suggestions for Mental Exercise
Box - New photos – Cab Calloway’s daughter

Chapter 7
Future issues of a pluralistic older society

Chapter 8
Prescription drug discount – federal new Medicare program
Employer-Sponsored health care plans
Update on Medicare funding issues
High cost of the US system and lack of public satisfaction
Expansion of health promotion section
Box - A program in Boston’s Beacon Hill district

Chapter 9
Defined benefit and defined contribution shift
Discussion of IRA and personally managed accounts
Shift in retirement pensions to individual responsibility from state support
Box - New chart on OASDI
Box - New chart on income sources
Box - Defined Benefit (DB) and Defined Contribution (DC) Plans: A Comparison

Chapter 10
Labor force participation – continuing to work
Baby Boomers’ view of retirement and possible retirement pattern
Third age concept of retirement as a period of choice with many options
Life portfolio and balanced portfolio concept of third age
Box - Double-Dipping Sweetens Retirement for State Workers: But Is It Right?

Chapter 11
Expanded home modification section
Expanded subsidized housing section
Expanded Continuing Care Retirement Communities
Box - Technologies to Support People Who Live Alone
Box - Retirement Communities with Special Appeal

Chapter 12
Boomers and new leisure interests among older people
Changes ahead for senior centers – Boomers will make new demands on centers
Osher Foundation program OLLI
Expanded section on learning and new approaches to learning in later life – electronic media
Volunteer Opportunities -- The Senior Corps; Peace Corps; Experience Corps; Civic Ventures Box - New charts on use of time and leisure
Box - Two styles of learning -- 2nd Age 3rd Age Learning
Box - New photo of nun playing computer game
Box - Computer use and presence and types of uses of computer

Chapter 13
New bereavement data and expanded discussion of widows and widowers
More on sexuality and aging – hetero, gay, lesbian, etc.
Gerontologists refer to the amount of resources available to a person, including social support, as their “life course capital” or “social capital” (O’Rand, 2006; Moren-Cross and Lin, 2006). Discussion
Expanded discussion of caregiving – Boomers’ situation today
Technology and social support
Expanded grandparenting section
Box - Grandparenting: COPING WITH DISTANCE

Chapter 14
Hospice expanded section
Palliative care expanded section
Box - Hospices face a challenge as they try to meet the needs of dying patients and their families.
Box - The Case of Terri Schiavo

Chapter 15
Expanded section on voting behavior and voting bloc issues
Expanded advocacy discussion
Expanded generational equity issue discussion
Civic engagement – emerging theme and activity
Box - White House Conference on Aging 2005 section
Box - In 2006 Civic Ventures (2007) first offered “The Purpose Prize.”

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