Aging as a social process: Canadian perspectives
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Don Mills, Ont. [u.a.]
Oxford Univ. Press
2009
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| Beschreibung: | Includes index |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 474 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780195427196 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Preface
ix
Acknowledgements
1
PART
1
An Introduction to individual and Population Aging
2
CHAPTER
1
Aging as a Social Process
6
Introduction
7
Population aging: Adding years to life
8
Individual aging: Adding life to years
13
Aging processes
17
Aging as a social process
20
Images of aging: The impact on individuals and society
24
The study of aging phenomena: The field of gerontology
30
The study of aging phenomena: Three levels of analysis
32
Issues and challenges for an aging society
33
Summary
37
For reflection, debate, or action
38
Notes
39
CHAPTER
2
Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Aging
41
Introduction
41
Aging in
a multicultural
society
43
The meaning of culture
44
Historical and comparative approaches to understanding aging processes
45
The modernization hypothesis and the changing status of older people
45
Aging in pre-industriai societies
50
Diversity of aging during modernization
51
Aging in subcultures
55
Summary
65
For reflection, debate, or action
65
Notes
66
CHAPTER
3
Individual Aging: Conttaiity and Change across die Life Couise
67
introduction
67
Aging, physical
structure,
and the physiological systems
69
Aging and the motor
ariti
sensory systems
75
Aging and cognitive processes
80
Personality processes and aging
87
Sammary
91
vi
Contents
Fot
reflection, debate, or action
92
Notes
92
CHAPTER
4
Population Aging: A Demographic and Geographic Perspective
94
Introduction
95
The demography of aging
103
An expanding older population
106
The significance of demographic indices
108
Geographic distribution of the aging population
114
Summary
117
For reflection, debate, or action
118
Notes
118
Part
2
The Soeiai, Environmental, and Health Contexts of Aging
120
CHAPTER
5
Understanding Older People and Aging Processes through Theory and Research
123
Introduction
123
The goals of scholarly research
124
Developing knowledge: The use of perspectives and theories
126
Research methods: The search for answers
142
Methodological issues in aging research
150
Summary
159
For reflection, debate, or action
160
Notes
160
CHAPTER
6
Soda! Structures and the Life Course: Social Inequality and Social Change
163
Introduction
163
Social structures and aging
165
Age structures and the life course
171
Age structures and social change
177
Summary
187
For reflection, debate, or action
188
Notes
189
CHAPTER? Health Status Transitions and Health Care
190
Introduction
191
Models of health and health care
192
Is the older population healthier over time?
193
Is the mid-life population healthier over time?
195
increasing longevity and centenarians
195
Dimensions of health and illness
195
Mental health
206
Canada s health care system and population aging
212
Summary
222
Contents
vìi
For reflection, debate, or action
223
Notes
223
CHAPTER
8
The Lived Environment: Community and Housing Alternatives in Later Life
225
Introduction
225
The multiple meanings of community
226
An ecological model of aging: Person-environment interaction
229
Coping with the environment: Challenges and adaptations
232
Living arrangements in later life
240
Housing alternatives in later life
242
Changing places: Local moves and migration in later life
252
Summary
253
For reflection, debate, or action
254
Notes
254
Part
3
Aging, Social institutions, and Public Policy
258
CHAPTER
9
Family Ties, Relationships, and Transitions
262
Introduction
263
Factors influencing family relationships
267
Family ties and relationships
269
Life transitions in a family context
281
Summary
291
For reflection, debate, or action
291
Notes
292
CHAPTER
10
Work, Retirement, and Economic Security
293
Introduction
294
Older workers in the pre-retirement years
295
The process of retirement
302
Economic security in later life
308
Summary
324
For reflection, debate, or action
325
Notes
326
CHAPTER
11
Social Networks and Social Participation in Later Life
328
Introduction
328
Social networks
331
Loneimess and social isolation in later life: Myth or fact?
334
Asocial behaviour: Older criminab
335
Leisure and aging: Conceptual and metnedoiogicai issues
336
Social participation in later life
343
Summary
357
For reflection, debate, or action
357
Notes
358
vili
Contents
CHAPTER
12
End of the Life Course: Social Support, Dying Well, and Public Policy
359
introduction
360
Social support in an aging society
362
Informal social support
365
Formal social support
371
Social intervention strategies and issues
374
End of the life course: Dying well, with support and dignity
383
Public policy for an aging population
391
Summan
395
For reflection, debate, or action
396
Notes
397
Glossary
401
Appendix: Studv Resources
408
List of References
412
Index
464
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