Full Description
Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Eighth Edition, presents the extraordinary growth of research on aging individuals, populations, and the dynamic culmination of the life course, providing a comprehensive synthesis and review of the latest research findings in the social sciences of aging.
As the complexities of population dynamics, cohort succession, and policy changes modify the world and its inhabitants in ways that must be vigilantly monitored so that aging research remains relevant and accurate, this completely revised edition not only includes the foundational, classic themes of aging research, but also a rich array of emerging topics and perspectives that advance the field in exciting ways.
New topics include families, immigration, social factors, and cognition, caregiving, neighborhoods, and built environments, natural disasters, religion and health, and sexual behavior, amongst others.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Section I: Theory and Methods
Chapter 1 - Aging and the Social Sciences: Progress and Prospects
Linda K. George and Kenneth F. Ferraro
Chapter 2 - Trajectory Models for Aging Research
Scott M. Lynch and Miles G. Taylor
Section II: Social Structures and Processes
Chapter 3 - Biodemography: Adding Biological Insight into Social, Economic, and Psychological Models of Population and Individual Health Change with Age
Eileen M. Crimmins and Sarinnapha M. Vasunilashorn
Chapter 4 - Late-Life Disability Trends and Trajectories
Douglas Wolf
Chapter 5 - Early Life Origins of Adult Health and Aging
Diana Kuh and Yoav Ven-Shlomo
Chapter 6 - Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Health
Jacqueline L. Angel, Stipica Mudrazija, and Rebecca Benson
Chapter 7 - Immigration, Aging, and the Life Course
Judith Treas and Zoya Gubernskaya
Chapter 8 - Gender, Time Use, and Aging
Liana C. Sayer, Vicki A. Freedman, and Suzanne M. Bianchi
Chapter 9 - Social Networks in Later Life
Benjamin Cornwell and Markus H. Schafer
Section III: Social Factors and Social Institutions
Chapter 10 - Stability, Change, and Complexity in Later-Life Families
J. Jill Suitor, Megan Gilligan, and Karl Pillemer
Chapter 11 - The Influence of Military Service on Aging
Janet M. Wilmoth and Andrew S. London
Chapter 12 - Religion, Health, and Aging
Neal Krause and R. David Hayward
Chapter 13 - Evolving Patterns of Work and Retirement
Kevin E. Cahill, Michael D. Giandrea, and Joseph F. Quinn
Chapter 14 - Productive Engagement in Later Life
Nancy Morrow-Howell and Emily A. Greenfield
Chapter 15 - Aging, Neighborhoods, and the Built Environment
Carol S. Aneshensel, Frederick Harig, and Richard G. Wight
Chapter 16 - Abusive Relationships in Late Life
Karen A. Roberto
Chapter 17 - The Impact of Disasters: Implications for the Well-Being of Older Adults
Lisa M. Brown and Kathryn A. Frahm
Chapter 18 - End-of-Life Planning and Health Care
Deborah Carr and Elizabeth Luth
Section IV - Aging and Society
Chapter 19 - Organization and Financing of Health Care
Marilyn Moon
Chapter 20 - Innovations in Long-Term Care
Joseph E. Gaugler
Chapter 21 - Politics and Policies of Aging in the United States
Robert B. Hudson
Chapter 22 - The Future of Retirement Security in Comparative Perspective
John B. Williamson and Daniel Béland
Chapter 23 - Health Inequalities Among Older Adults in Developed Countries: Reconciling Theories and Policy Approaches
Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, Andrea Willson, and Sandra Reiter-Campeau
