Adult Development and Aging: Growth, Longevity, and Challenges

Topically organized, Adult Development and Aging: Growth, Longevity and Challenges provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the aging process in adulthood from multiple perspectives. In this Second Edition, Julie Hicks Patrick, Bert Hayslip, and Lisa Hollis-Sawyer use principles of lifespan development to show readers the directionality of changes in early, middle, and late adulthood. Within its framework of scientific literacy, the text charts four key themes to guide learners: a focus on aging as development; a global perspective on contexts; a vibrant, integrated approach to diverse coverage; and psychological science that translates into real-life experiences. A final chapter focuses on ways to improve the experience of aging for all adults.

Julie Hicks Patrick, PhD is professor of lifespan developmental psychology and the PI of the AGE-ADAR Scholars Program at West Virginia University. Her work focuses on healthy aging at mid- and late-life.

Dr. Bert Hayslip, Jr. is Regents Professor of Psychology Emeritus at University of North Texas. With a wide-ranging research focus, Dr. Hayslip is recognized as an expert in grandparenting, death and dying, grief and bereavement, psychopathology, intellectual functioning, and counseling with older adults. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, and a Fellow of AGHE.

 

Dr. Lisa Hollis-Sawyer is Associate Professor in the Psychology department and Coordinator of the Gerontology program at Northeastern Illinois University. She received her doctorate in Industrial Gerontology from The University of Akron and conducted her postdoctoral aging-related training at Boston University. Her research interests range from eldercare to aging workforce issues, especially focusing on aging women’s issues within these roles. Dr. Hollis- Sawyer has authored/co-authored eight textbooks and authored/co-authored 59 scholarly publications. She received an American Psychological Association Division 20 award for her career-long mentoring of gerontology students in 2014. She also has served as the co-Chair of the APA Division 35 Committee on Women and Aging for the past three years. In 2017, she received the APA Division 35’s Florence L. Denmark award for her research on women and aging since 1988. She has co-written both a book on women’s positive aging for Elsevier Book Publishers in 2015 entitled “Women and Positive Aging: An International Perspective,” and recently published an edited 2020 book (co-edited with Dr. Ellen Cole) entitled “Older Women Who Work: Resilience, Choice, and Change.”