The Many Faces of Health, Competence and Well-Being in Old Age : Integrating Epidemiological, Psychological and Social Perspectives
Overview
he main aim of the book is to provide an interdisciplinary treatment of a set of key issues of current ageing research, i.e., health, competence, and well-being. These key issues are addressed based on three converging research streams: social-ecological research, which assumes that major processes and outcomes of ageing such as day-to-day competence are shaped by social and physical-spatial environments; geropsychology research, which is driven by a life-span developmental conception of ageing; and epidemiology, which offers most fundamental disease, function and prevention-related data. Each of the three major research directions are outlined by a short introduction, followed by three chapters treating in an empirical manner most recent key research questions. All chapters are then also discussed by renowned ageing experts.
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- ISBN-13: 9781402041372
- ISBN-10: 1402041373
- Publisher: Springer
- Publish Date: January 2006
- Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.15 pounds
- Page Count: 267
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