Resilience in aging
Subtitle: concepts, research, and outcomes
By: Barbara Resnick, Lisa P. Gwyther, Karen A. Roberto, editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9781441902313
Subjects: Resilience (Personality trait); Gerontology; Psychology; Geriatrics; Older people; Aged; Psychological Resilience; Psycholoy
Table of contents: title: Resilience: definitions, ambiguities, and applications --; title: Successful aging and resilience: applications for public health and health care --; title: Resilience and personality disorders in older age --; title: What do we know about resilience in older adults?: an exploration of some facts, factors, and facets --; title: Psychological resilience --; title: Physiological resilience --; title: Using the arts to promote resiliency among persons with dementia and their caregivers --; title: Promoting worker resilience over the lifecourse --; title: Resilience in aging: cultural and ethnic perspectives --; title: Civic engagement: policies and programs to support a resilient aging society --; title: Strengthened by the spirit: religion, spirituality, and resilience through adulthood and aging --; title: Resilience in chronic illness --; title: The relationship between resilience and motivation --; title: The association between resilience and survival among Chinese elderly --; title: Fostering resilience in dementia through narratives: contributions of multimedia technologies --; title: Building resilience in mild cognitive impairment and early-stage dementia: innovative approaches to intervention and outcome evaluation --; title: African-American caregivers finding resilience through faith --; title: The age-friendly New York City project: an environmental intervention to increase aging resilience --; title: Promoting resilience in small-scale, homelike residential care settings for older people with dementia: experiences from the Netherlands and the United States --; title: A geriatric mobile crisis response team: a resilience-promoting program to meet the mental health needs of community-residing older people --; title: Optimizing resilience in the 21st century --; title: Resilience in the workplace: job conditions that buffer negative attitudes toward older workers.