Enduring Questions in Gerontology

Enduring Questions in Gerontology provides a comprehensive perspective on the abiding issues in gerontology. Both current and future gerontologists will find this book useful in examining the emerging issues and creating a context for further progress in the field of aging.

About the Contributors

xi

Preface

xv

Prologue: Finding New Beacons: Searching for Timeless and Interdisciplinary Perspectives

1

(12)

George L. Maddox

Four Useful Generalizations

2

(6)

Exploring the Significance of Changing Perspectives and Enduring Questions

8

(1)

Epochs, Systems, and Scientific Revolutions

9

(1)

Multidisciplinarity

10

(3)

1. Identifying Enduring Questions in Gerontology

13

(16)

Jon Hendricks, Debra Sheets, and Dana Burr Bradley

Identifying Knowledge and Making Sense

13

(2)

Gerontology: Enduring Questions

15

(2)

Searching for Answers Inside and Out

17

(3)

Beyond the Mind of Neanderthals

20

(1)

Developing Critical Awareness

21

(3)

Public Policy: Questions or Answers

24

(1)

The World at the Doorstep

25

(1)

What Does It All Mean?

26

(3)

2. A Biologist's Perspective: Whence Come We, Where Are We, Whither Go We?

29

(34)

Steven N. Austad

The Future: Ganymede or Tithonus?

34

(3)

What Animal Research Tells Us

37

(9)

The Ames Dwarf Gene

46

(4)

Public Concerns about Life Extension Research

50

(5)

How the Scientific Community Can Best Make Its Case

55

(8)

3. New Avenues, New Questions, and Changing Perspectives in Geriatric Medicine

63

(30)

Kenneth Brummel-Smith

The Baby-Boom Generation and the Changing Doctor–Patient Relationship

63

(5)

Training Physicians in Geriatric Medicine

68

(2)

The Practice of Geriatrics

70

(2)

Role of Other Providers

72

(2)

Chronic Disease Care

74

(4)

The Role of the Health Care System in Geriatrics

78

(2)

Ethical Issues

80

(6)

Controlling Health Care Costs

86

(7)

4. The Analytic Template in the Psychology of Aging

93

(38)

Manfred Diehl and Alissa Darh-Freudeman

The Potentials and Limitations of Psychological Aging

93

(2)

The Sample Case of Cognitive Aging: Enduring Questions

95

(4)

The Development of Adult Intelligence

99

(3)

Findings from Cognitive Training Research

102

(2)

From the Laboratory to the Real World: Everyday Cognition

104

(2)

The Sample Case of Personality Aging

106

(8)

The Sample Case of Socioemotional Aging

114

(6)

Conclusion and General Outlook

120

(11)

5. The Dynamic Nature of Societal Aging in a Global Perspective

131

(28)

Chris Phillipson

Sociological Perspectives on Aging

132

(3)

Social Gerontology in Context

135

(4)

Reconstructing the Life Course

139

(2)

The New Sociology of Family Life

141

(3)

Social Inequality and Social Divisions in Later Life: Current and Future Trends

144

(3)

Globalization and the Sociology of Aging

147

(3)

Conclusion

150

(9)

6. Whatever Happened to Culture?

159

(18)

Christine L. Fry

The Nature of Cultural Things

159

(1)

The Nature of Culture and Ethnography

160

(1)

An Ethnography of Age: Age among the Nacirema

161

(4)

Have We Lost Culture in Our Explorations of Age?

165

(2)

Rediscovering Culture and Age

167

(3)

Enduring Questions from Anthropology

170

(7)

7. The Contributions of Philosophy and Ethics in the Study of Age

177

(26)

Martha Holstein and Mark Waymack

Facing Enduring Questions

179

(1)

Making Qualitative Distinctions

180

(1)

The Liminality of Old Age

181

(2)

Ages and Stages

183

(4)

"Quasi"-Normative Ideas about Aging: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern

187

(2)

Old Age Becomes a Problem

189

(1)

Contemporary Gerontological Ideals: Implicit and Explicit

190

(7)

Conclusion

197

(6)

8. Historical Gerontology: It Is a Matter of Time

203

(22)

W. Andrew Achenbaum

The Origins of Historical Gerontology

207

(10)

Enduring Issues and Broader Perspectives in Historical Gerontology: An Agenda

217

(2)

The Challenge

219

(6)

9. The Purview and Sweep of Aging Policy

225

(46)

Phoebe S. Liebig

The Policy Sciences: Theory and Practice

226

(3)

Public Administration and Law

229

(2)

Enduring Questions in Aging Policy

231

(23)

The Next Generation of Enduring Questions

254

(6)

A Caveat

260

(11)

Epilogue. Gerontology—Past, Present, and Future

271

(16)

James E. Birren

The Past

272

(5)

Gerontology in the Present

277

(2)

The Future of Gerontology

279

(5)

A Summary Perspective on Gerontology

284

(3)

Index

287

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