Handbook of gerontology research methods : understanding successful aging /
Contributor(s): Riby, Leigh [editor.].
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017Description: xvi, 251 pages ; 26 cm.Content type: text $2 rdacontent | text Media type: unmediated $2 rdamedia | unmediated Carrier type: volume $2 rdacarrier | volumeISBN: 9781138779037 (hardback : alk. paper); 9781138779037:; 1138779032 (hardback : alk. paper); 9781138779068 (pbk. : alk. paper); 1138779067 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Gerontology -- Research -- Methodology | Aging -- Research -- MethodologyDDC classification: 618.9700721| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes references and index.
Section I. Introduction -- section II. Lifestyle factors and psychological functioning -- section III. Less successful ageing -- section IV. Novel interventions for dementia -- section V. End of life.
This handbook offers a clear understanding of the most important research challenges and issues in the burgeoning field of the psychology of aging. As people in developed countries live longer, so a range of research methods has evolved that allows a more nuanced understanding of how we develop psychological and neurologically. Allied to this is an increasing concern with the idea of well-being, a concept which places cognitive performance and development within a more socially grounded context. With contributions from a range of top international scholars, the book addresses both typical and atypical aging, highlighting key areas such as physical and cognitive exercise, nutrition, stress, diabetes and issues related to death, dying and bereavement.