Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging

Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives

Carolyn M. Aldwin, Diane F. Gilmer

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SAGE Publications Inc
28 August 2003

Psychology; Medicine: general issues; Human reproduction, growth & development

Health, Illness and Optimal Aging undertakes the difficult task of assembling an objective and holistic picture of human aging, including the physical aspects of aging, chronic disease, and health promotion in the later years, for students and professionals. Aldwin and Gilmar provide comprehensive, multi-disciplinary coverage of the demography of the aging population, theories of aging, and physical aging, including normal age-related changes, disease-related processes, and promotion of optimal aging. They also cover psychosocial aspects of aging, including mental health, stress and coping, and spirituality, as well as care giving in later years. Features: - a comprehensive approach, with coverage of psychosocial factors that affect physical health in addition to biological aspects of aging, thus providing integrated coverage of information from the fields of biology, psychology, and the social sciences - coverage of issues in healthcare systems - case studies in each chapter to augment student understanding with real-life examples - discussions of methodological issues in some of the research presented to help students become more critical consumers of research and data.

By: Carolyn M. Aldwin, Diane F. Gilmer
Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 187mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 740g
ISBN: 9780761922599
ISBN 10: 0761922598
Pages: 440
Publication Date: 28 August 2003
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Dr. Carolyn Aldwin is Chair of the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at Oregon State University in Corvallis. Prior to that, she was Professor of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis. She received her doctorate from the University of California at San Francisco, was a post-doctoral fellow in the Program in Social Ecology at the University of California at Irvine, and spent five years at the Veterans Administration Normative Aging Study in Boston. She still collaborates with investigators on this study, and directs the Davis Longitudinal Study. She is currently co-editor for Psychology and Health, and was associate editor for the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Her research on health and aging has been funded by the National Institute of Aging. She is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, as well as the American Psychological Association in Divisions 20 (Adult Development and Aging) and 38 (Health Psychology). She is an avid cyclist and hiker. Dr. Gilmer is a Lecturer and Post-Graduate Researcher in the Department of Human and Community Development at the University of California, Davis. She received a Master of Science in Nursing at the University of Portland, Portland, Oregon, and a Master of Science in Education and a doctorate in Human Development at the University of California, Davis. She is certified as an adult/family nurse practitioner and has worked extensively with the elderly. Currently she teaches a course on Health and Aging at the University. She enjoys gardening, walking with her two springer spaniels, and sailing on San Francisco Bay with her husband and adult children.

Reviews for Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives

Gaining understanding of aging is one of the most complex issues facing twenty-first century science. This book addresses the complexity of the factors that interact and influence the course of our longer life expectancy!.How we humans grow old is a product of our genetic background as members of a species and our families. But the genome expresses itself in physical and social environments that modulate the appearance of heredity traits. In a sense aging is an ecological problem in which the dynamics are often difficult to explain!.This book brings information from the sciences together in a way that is rarely done!..It provides an integration of knowledge about the dynamics of aging and can promote wisdom about how we can modify the life course to our advantage. -- James Birren