Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics : The Crown of Life: Dynamics of the Early Postretirement Period

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ISBN: 9780826102287 | 082610228X
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Copyright: 8/1/2006

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Boston College, MA. Annual reviews latest issues and procedures in gerontology and geriatrics. Topics include culture and context for the third age; anticipating life in the third age; change over time in the third age; and everyday life in the third age. For clinicians and researchers.

Introduction, Paul Wink, Wellesley College and Jacquelyn B. James, Boston College
Part I: Culture and Context for the Third Age
1. The Demography of the Third Age, Annemette Sorensen, Harvard University
2. Functioning and Well-being in the Third Age, Irina Grafova, Kate McGonagle, and Frank Stafford, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan
3. The Work and Retirement Experiences of Aging Black Americans, James Jackson, Edna Brown, and Nakesha Faison, Institute of Social Research, University of Michigan
Part II: Anticipating Life in the Third Age
4. The Third Age Project: Strategic Selection and Retirement as an Incomplete Institution, Phyllis Moen, University of Minnesota
5. Late Middle Age: Transition to the Third Age, Ravenna Helson, University of California, Berkeley
6. Pathways Toward the Third Age: Studying a Cohort from the "Golden Age," David Winter, Cynthia Torges, and Abigail Stewart, University of Michigan; Donna Henderson-King and Eaaron Henderson-King, Grand Valley State University
Part III: Change Over Time in the Third Age, Age 65-79
7. Cohort Differences in the Role of Change in Cognition for Third Age Elders, Sherry Willis and K. Warner Schaie, Pennsylvania State University
8. Trajectories of Health and Well-being in the Third Age, Ron Spiro, Boston VA Healthcare System and Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health
9. Change and Stability During the Third Age: Longitudinal Investigations of Self-Rated Health and Religiousness, Michael McCullough and Emily Polak, University of Miami
10. The Plasticity of Social Relations in the Third Age, Toni C. Antonucci, Kristine Ajrouch and Kira Birditt, University of Michigan
Part IV: Everyday Life in the Third Age
11. Age At and Satisfaction with Retirement, George Vaillant and Ana DiRago, Harvard Medical School
12. Everyday Life in the Third Age, Paul Wink, Wellesley College
13. Gay Lives in the Third Age: Possibilities and Paradoxes, Bert Cohler and Andrew Hostetler, University of Chicago
14. Retirement Community Life: Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities, Allen Omoto and Christina Aldrich, Claremont Graduated University
Part V: Is the Third Age the Crown of Life?, Paul Wink and Jacquelyn James

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Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics : The Crown of Life: Dynamics of the Early Postretirement Period

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