Aging
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| Glavni autori: | Moody, Harry R. (-), Sasser, Jennifer R. (Author) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
| Impresum: |
Los Angeles [etc.] :
SAGE,
2015.
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| Izdanje: | 8th ed |
Sadržaj:
- Preface
- Prologue
- About the authors
- Basic concepts i. a life course perspective on aging
- Urban legends of aging : "respect for elders was higher in the past"
- Suggested readings
- Urban legends of aging: "religion is good for your health"
- Focus on the future: conscious aging
- Questions for writing, reflection, and debate
- Global perspective : blue zones for longer life
- Focus on the future : "I dated a cyborg!"
- Focus on the future : late-life learning in the information society
- Basic concepts II. Aging, health care, and society
- Urban legends of aging: health care costs are high because we spend most
- Of the money on old people in the last year of life
- Focus on the future : scenarios for rationing : fiction or forecast
- Urban legends of aging : only 4% of older people live in nursing homes
- Focus on practice : long-term-care insurance
- Focus on the future : genetic screening for alzheimer's disease
- Urban legends of aging : older people are more likely to be victims of crime
- Focus on practice : inheritance in an aging society
- Urban legends of aging : advance directives would have prevented the
- Tragic case of terri schiavo
- Urban legends of aging : the gray lobby has a stranglehold on aging
- Policy in the united states
- Focus on practice: intergenerational programs
- Urban legends of aging : social security is going broke : within a few
- Decades,there won't be any money to pay promised benefits
- Focus on practice : investment decisions for retirement income
- Epilogue: finding your place in an aging society
- Appendix. how to research a term paper in gerontology
- Glossary
- Bibliography 491
- Photo credits 519
- Index.