Gerontology

Kenneth Ferraro & Janet Wilmoth

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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