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- Title
Aging, Society, & the Life Course.
- Authors
Hou, Su-I
- Abstract
Aging, Society, & the Life Course is a comprehensive textbook and timely edition with updates on a number of contemporary issues affecting our aging society including an increased focus on baby boomers as they approach retirement and critical issues on global aging. The authors provide in-depth discussions on how societal forces influence the aging process and examine these from personal, familial, community, societal, and global perspectives. The book also integrates theories with context to help readers better understand the diversity of the older population, and aging and the life course as social phenomena. This text is ideal not only for both undergraduate and graduate courses but also for practitioners to better understand how aging is much more than an individual journey through time, and is also a complex social process that will affect our field. The life course perspective also helps inform new research and theoretical developments in the field of gerontology.
- Subjects
AGING; ATTITUDE (Psychology); TEXTBOOKS
- Publication
Health Promotion Practice, 2012, Vol 13, Issue 6, p729
- ISSN
1524-8399
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1524839912456205