Productive Aging : Concepts and Challenges.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (345 pages)
- Gerontology Series .
- Gerontology Series .
Intro -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I THE HISTORY AND CURRENT STATE OF PRODUCTIVE AGING -- 1 PRODUCTIVE AGING Principles and Perspectives -- 2 PRODUCTIVE AGING IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- 3 PRODUCTIVE AGING A Conceptual Framework -- PART II DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON PRODUCTIVE AGING -- 4 BIOMEDICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PRODUCTIVE AGING -- 5 PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPLICATIONS OF PRODUCTIVE AGING -- 6 SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PRODUCTIVE AGING -- 7 PRODUCTIVE AGING An Economist's View -- PART III EMERGENT THEORIES IN GERONTOLOGY -- 8 PRODUCTIVE AGING AND THE IDEOLOGY OF OLD AGE -- 9 THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PRODUCTIVE AGING -- 10 CHANGES OVER THE LIFE COURSE IN PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES -- PART IV FUTURE DIRECTIONS IN PRACTICE, THEORY, AND RESEARCH -- 11 STRUCTURAL LEAD Building New Institutions for an Aging America -- 12 PRODUCTIVE AGING Theoretical Choices and Directions -- 13 ADVANCING RESEARCH ON PRODUCTIVITY IN LATER LIFE -- INDEX.
"This book will find most of its audience among the social gerontologists, but can be read by practitioners with merit... Many trainees could be stimulated by this excellent work to creative thinking." -- Doody's Book of Review Service "A systematic definitive account of the concept of productive aging." -- Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.