Invitation to the Life Course: Towards new understandings of later life (Society and Aging Series) - Softcover

Book 4 of 20: Society and Aging

Settersten, Richard

 
9780415784221: Invitation to the Life Course: Towards new understandings of later life (Society and Aging Series)
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ISBN 10: 0415784220 ISBN 13: 9780415784221
Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Invitation to the Life Course: Toward New Understandings of Later Life discusses in depth the challenges of age, time, and social contexts for the study of aging and later life. Understanding aging (as a process) and later life (as a period) must be accompanied by serious attention to the life course. This brings significant challenges related to time, as gerontologists must describe and explain life patterns over many decades. It also brings significant challenges related to place, as gerontologists must examine how social contexts structure pathways into and through later life, and how those contexts affect the nature and meaning of experiences along the way. This book is a natural extension of the editor's previous work, ""Lives in Time and Place: The Problems and Promises of Developmental Science"" (Baywood, 1999).

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Keith Park

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415784220
ISBN 13 
9780415784221
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
368

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