Kenneth Ferraro & Janet Wilmoth 
Gerontology [EPUB ebook] 
Perspectives and Issues, Third Edition

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Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. Aging Scholarship

  • The Fountain of Gerontological Discovery, Janet M. Wilmoth and Kenneth F. Ferraro

  • The Evolution of Gerontology as a Field of Scientific Inquiry, Kenneth F. Ferraro

  • Demographic Perspectives on Aging, Janet M. Wilmoth and Charles F. Longino, Jr.

    • Part II. Physical Aspects of Aging

  • Cellular and Organismal Aspects of Senescence and Longevity, David J. Waters

  • Cognitive Aging, Aimee M. Surprenant and Ian Neath

  • Disability Concepts and Measurement: Contributions of the Epidemiology of Disability to Gerontological Inquiry, Fredric D. Wolinsky and Douglas K. Miller

  • The Role of Nutrition in the Older Individual, Dorothy M. Morre

  • Exercise and Aging, Michael G. Flynn

    • Part III. Social Aspects of Aging

  • Socioemotional Aspects of Aging, Karen L. Fingerman and Brooke N. Baker

  • Age Structures, Aging, and the Life Course, Linda K. George

  • Social Forces, Life-Course Consequences: Cumulative Disadvantage and »Getting Alzheimer’s, » Kathryn Z. Douthit and Dale Dannefer

  • Humanist Gerontology and the Meaning(s) of Ageing, Thomas R. Cole and Michelle Sierpina

    • Part IV. Public Policy

  • Retirement and Financial Security: An Economist Thinks Out Loud, Timothy M. Smeeding

  • Social Lives in Later Life, Christine L. Himes and Ying Fang

  • Politics and Policy in the Lives of Older Americans, Robert B. Hudson

  • Afterword: The Gerontological Imagination, Kenneth F. Ferraro

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    Janet M. Wilmoth, Ph D, is Professor of Sociology, Director of the Aging Studies Institute, and a Senior Research Associate in the Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University.
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