Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 397 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9780511665684
Series Statement:
European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development
Content:
More 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
Content:
Psychological perspectives on successful aging : the model of selective optimization with compensation / Paul B. Baltes and Margret M. Baltes -- Medical perspectives upon successful aging / James F. Fries -- Successful aging in a post-retired society / David L. Featherman, Jacqui Smith, and James G. Peterson -- The optimization of cognitive functioning in old age : predictions based on cohort-sequential and longitudinal data / K. Warner Schaie -- The optimization of episodic remembering in old age / Lars Bäckman, Timo Mäntylä, and Agneta Herlitz -- Peak performance and age : an examination of peak performance in sports / K. Anders Ericsson -- Personal control over development and quality of life perspectives in adulthood / Jochen Brandtstädter and Bernhard Baltes-Götz
Content:
Successful mastery of bereavement and widowhood : a life-course perspective / Camille B. Wortman and Roxane Cohen Silver -- The Bonn longitudinal study of aging : coping, life adjustment, and life satisfaction / Georg Rudinger and Hans Thomae -- Risk and protective factors in the transition to young adulthood / Barbara Maughan and Lorna Champion -- Avoiding negative life outcomes : evidence from a forty-five year study / George E. Vaillant -- Developmental behavorial genetics and successful aging / Nancy L. Pedersen and Jennifer R. Harris
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521374545
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521435826
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521374545
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511665684
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