The international handbook on aging
Subtitle: current research and developments
By: edited by Erdman B. Palmore, Frank Whittington, and Suzanne Kunkel ; associate editors, Elizabeth Lokon and Samuel M. Mwangi ; foreword by George L. Maddox
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Santa Barbara, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 705
ISBN-13: 9780313352300; 9780313352317
Other titles: Developments and research on aging.
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Developments and research on aging. [Rev. ed.]. 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: African region / Isabella Aboderin and Monica Ferreira; title: Asia-Pacific region / Sheung-Tak Cheng, David R. Phillips, and Alfred C.M. Chan; title: European region / Marja Aartsen; title: Latin American region / Nelida Redondo; title: International nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) related to aging / Samuel M. Wangi; title: Argentina / José R. Jauregui and Isidoro Fainstein; title: Australia / Laurie Buys, Evonne Miller, and Karen Robinson; title: Austria / Kathrin Komp; title: Botswana / Akpovire Oduaran and Keneilwe Molosi; title: Brazil / Renato Maia Guimarães; title: Canada / Neena L. Chappell; title: China / Du Peng and Yang Hui; title: Costa Rica / Jim Mitchell, Don E. Bradley, and Alejandro Gutierrez Delgado; title: Cuba / James T. Sykes and Enrique Vega; title: Czech Republic / Eva Topinková and Lucie Vidovicová; title: Denmark / Karen Munk; title: Egypt / Abdel Moneim Ashour; title: Estonia / Kai Saks; title: Germany / Andreas Kruse and Eric Schmitt; title: Great Britain / Kate Davidson; title: Greece / Efstathios S. Gonos, Ioannis P. Trougakos, and Niki Chondrogianni; title: Hungary / Bálint Boga; title: India / P.V. Ramaurti and D. Jamuna; title: Ireland / Desmond O'Neill, Cillian Twomey, and Eamon O'Shea; title: Israel / Howard Litwin and Jenny Brodsky; title: Italy / Antonio Cherubini ... [et al.]; title: Japan / Daisaku Maeda; title: Kenya / Samuel M. Mwangi; title: Luxembourg / Dieter Ferring; title: Malaysia / Tey Nai Peng and Ng Sor Tho; title: Malta / Joseph Troisi; title: Mexico / Armnado F. Pichardo; title: The Netherlands / Marja Aartsen; title: New Zealand / Judith A. Davey; title: Norway / Kirsten Thorsen; title: Pakistan / Ra ̓ana Mahmood; title: The Philippines / Grace Trinidad-Cruz and Anna Melissa C. Lavares; title: Romania / Luiza Spiru and Ileanna Turcu; title: Singapore / Kalyani K. Mehta; title: Slovakia / Ladislav Hegyi and Ş̆tefan Krajç̆ík; title: Slovenia / Valentina Hlebec and Masa Filipovic Hrast; title: South Africa / Jaco Hoffman; title: South Korea / Sung-Jae Choi; title: Spain / Belén Bueno and M. Teresa Sancho; title: Sweden / Torbjörn Svensson and Susanne Iwarsson; title: Switzerland / Jean-Pierre Michel ... [et al.]; title: Taiwan / Ching-Yu Chen; title: Thailand / Rossarin Soottipong Gray and Aphichat Chamratrithirong; title: Turkey / Yesim Gökçe-Kutsal; title: Uganda / James Kabooza; title: United States / Erdman B. Palmore; title: Zimbabwe / Sitawa R. Kimuna; title: Afterword : aging in the global century / Jon Hendricks.