Social structures and aging individuals
Subtitle: continuing challenges
By: K. Warner Schaie, Ronald P. Abeles, editors.
Contributors: Schaie, K. Warner 1928-; Abeles, Ronald P., 1944-
Publisher: Springer Pub. Company; Springer Pub.; Springer Publishing Company
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9780826124081
Subjects: Aging -- Social aspects -- United States -- Congresses; Aging -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses; Life cycle, Human -- Social aspects -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The waters we swim : everyday social processes, macro-structural realities and human aging / Dale Dannefer; title: To act or not to act : using statistics or feelings to reduce disease risk morbidity and mortality / Howard Leventhal, Tamara J. Musumeci, and Elaine A. Leventhal; title: Religion, health, and health behavior / Neal Krause; title: Commentary : assessing health behaviors across individuals, situations, and time / David Almeida, Susan T. Charles, and Shevaun D. Neupert; title: From static to dynamic : the on-going dialectic about human development / Nilam Ram ... [et al.]; title: Those who have, get : social structure, environmental complexity, intellectual functioning and self-directed orientations in the elderly / Carmi Schooler and Leslie J. Caplan; title: Commentary : personality, emotion, and cognition : some comments / Freda Blanchard-Fields; title: Technology as multiplier effect for an aging work force / Neil Charness; title: No career for you : is that a good or bad thing? / David Ekerdt; title: Commentary : new employment structures : varieties of impact on aging workers / James L. Farr and Alexander R. Schwall; title: Aging, history, and the course of life : social structures and cultural; title: Meanings / Thomas Cole, W. Andrew Achenbaum, and Nathan Carlin; title: Cultural transformations, history and the experiences of aging / Christine Fry; title: The aging experience, social change, and television / Rukmalie Jayakody; title: Religion and intergenerational transmission over time / Vern L. Bengtson... [et al.]; title: How have social institutional forces shaped family structure and well-being over the past 50 years / Mark D. Hayward; title: Commentary : marital trends and familial influences : toward developing an understanding of context / Chalandra Bryant and Michelle Bragg.