This best-selling, multidisciplinary, social aging text presents positive images of aging while considering the many factors that contribute to how aging individuals experiences life. Up-to-date and expanded, this text offers a comprehensive view that presents aging positively, portraying concepts of active aging and resiliency, and defining "productive aging" by elaborating on the numerous ways elders contribute to society and their families. Based on the latest research findings, it offers greater depth to critical issues of aging, attending to differences by age and cohort, gender, ethnic minority status, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status.
Part 1 The Field of Social Gerontology
Part 2 The Bilogical and Physiological Context of Social Aging
Part 3 The Psychological Context of Social Aging
Part 4 The Social Context of Aging
Part 5 The Societal Context of Aging
Index