Successful Aging: Perspectives from the Behavioral Sciences (European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052143582X ISBN 13: 9780521435826

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993

Synopsis

For a long time, research on developmental issues in the biological and social sciences has been primarily concerned with the early stages of the lifespan, such as infancy and adolescence. More and more researchers have recently turned their attention to the problems of development and aging in the later periods of life. This volume, based on papers presented by the European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development, deals with success in the aging process. From a medical or public health viewpoint, successful aging consists of optimizing life expectancy while at the same time minimizing physical, psychological, and social morbidity. Achievement of successful aging requires that the onset of infirmity, on average, increases more rapidly than average life expectancy, compressing morbidity into a shorter period. Current behavioral and social research shows physical plasticity in seniors, strong associations between lifestyle and health, increasingly healthy lifestyles on a national basis, and decreasing incidence of chronic disease.

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Book Description

Based on papers presented by the European Network on Longitudinal Studies on Individual Development, this volume analyzes successful aging from a medical or public health viewpoint as optimizing life expectancy while minimizing physical, psychological and social morbidity.

Review

"The high quality of both the theoretical and empirical essays make this an up-to-date and valuable contribution to the life-course literature." Choice

"Anyone interested in aging and the behavioral sciences will find this text to be of the most interest." BIOSIS

"...useful to geriatricians, neurologists, and psychiatrists interested in the cognitive and psychosocial aspects of successful aging. It is very useful for academically oriented health care workers in the areas of nursing, psychology, and social work....offers concrete evidence for the usefulness of longitudinal research in more accurately determining what actually happens to individuals as they age...." Elizabeth L. Rogers, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052143582X
• ISBN 13: 9780521435826
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416
• Editor: Baltes Paul B., Baltes Margret M.