It is increasingly recognized that an individual’s experience of old age is fundamentally influenced by their earlier life experiences. This volume of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics begins with an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of both the Life Span and the Life Course perspectives on health disparities in aging populations, examining them in the context of a changing structure of society.
This volume focuses on morbidities in general as well as specific morbidities such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension, giving special attention to life-time influences on cognition and functional abilities. Finally, this new volume addresses broader policy issues with relation to Life Span and Life Course perspectives on aging.
Key Features:- Addresses an important topic of increasing relevance.
- Addresses the issue of disparities from genes to geography
- Presents traditional and emerging scientific perspectives
Cuprins
‘I. Introduction
1. Theoretical Perspectives of Life Span and Life Course Development
2. The Demographic Revolution
II. Morbidity:
3. Life time influences on late life Mortality
4. Epidemiological perspectives on life time influences on late life morbidities
5. Biopsychosocial perspectives on late life morbidities
6. Biobehavioral aspects of Late Life Morbidities
III. Specific Morbidities
7. Disparities, diabetes and cardiovascular disorders
8. Genetic influences on Disparities in Hypertension/Obesity
IV. Contextual Influences
9. Environment effects on health
10. Work, retirement and race and health disparities
11. Medication compliance and health disparities
V. Cognition
11. Cognition and Disparities
12. Dementias, mild cognitive impairments, and health disparities
VI. Frailty and Functional Limitations
13. HD, Life course events and disability in late life
14. Arthritis and health inequalities
VII. Policy
15. Policy issues and disparities
16. The Aging Society
VIII. Conclusion
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Despre autor
Harvey L. Sterns, Ph D, is Professor of Psychology and Director and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Life-Span Development and Gerontology at The University of Akron.
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