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Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Eighth Edition, tackles the biological and environmental influences on behavior as well as the reciprocal interface between changes in the brain and behavior during the course of the adult life span.
The psychology of aging is important to many features of daily life, from workplace and the family, to public policy matters. It is complex, and new questions are continually raised about how behavior changes with age.
Providing perspectives on the behavioral science of aging for diverse disciplines, the handbook explains how the role of behavior is organized and how it changes over time. Along with parallel advances in research methodology, it explicates in great detail patterns and sub-patterns of behavior over the lifespan, and how they are affected by biological, health, and social interactions.
New topics to the eighth edition include preclinical neuropathology, audition and language comprehension in adult aging, cognitive interventions and neural processes, social interrelations, age differences in the connection of mood and cognition, cross-cultural issues, financial decision-making and capacity, technology, gaming, social networking, and more.
- Tackles the biological and environmental influences on behavior as well as the reciprocal interface between changes in the brain and behavior during the course of the adult life span
- Covers the key areas in psychological gerontology research in one volume
- Explains how the role of behavior is organized and how it changes over time
- Completely revised from the previous edition
- New chapter on gender and aging process
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780124115231 |
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Publisher: | Elsevier Science |
Publication date: | 08/19/2015 |
Series: | Handbooks of Aging |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 550 |
File size: | 7 MB |
About the Author
Sherry L. Willis is a research professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. She previously held an appointment as professor of Human Development at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research has focused on age-related cognitive changes in later adulthood. In particular she is known for her work on behavioral interventions to remediate and enhance cognitive performance in community-dwelling normal elderly. She was a principal investigator on the ACTIVE study, a randomized controlled trial to examine the effects of cognitive interventions in the maintenance of everyday functioning in at-risk community-dwelling elderly, funded by NIA. She has been the codirector of the Seattle Longitudinal Study. In addition to her cognitive intervention research, she has conducted programmatic research on changes in everyday problem-solving competence in the elderly and cognitive predictors of competence. She and colleagues have developed several measures of Everyday Problem Solving. She is the co-author of the textbook Adult Development and Aging (with K.W. Schaie, now in its 5th edition). She has edited more than ten volumes on various aspects of adult development and cognition and has authored over a hundred publications in adult development. She has served as President of Division 20, Adult Development and Aging, American Psychological Association. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Sweden. She received a Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement and the Pauline Schmitt Russell Distinguished Research Career Award from the Pennsylvania State University, and the Paul and Margret Baltes award from Division 20 of the American Psychological Association. She currently has funding from NIA for a twenty-year follow-up of the ACTIVE randomized cognitive training trial and funding to archive the Seattle Longitudinal Study.
Table of Contents
Contributors vii
Foreword ix
Preface xi
About the Editors xiii
Part 1 Concepts, Theory, and Methods in the Psychology of Aging
1 Enduring Theoretical Themes in Psychological Aging: Derivation, Functions, Perspectives, and Opportunities Roger A. Dixon 3
2 Methodological and Analytical Issues in the Psychology of Aging Emilio Ferrer Paolo Ghisletta 25
3 Historical Influences on Aging and Behavior K. Warner Schaie 41
Part 2 Neuroscience, Cognition and Aging
4 Executive Function and Cognitive Aging Mary Luszcz 59
5 The Cognitive Consequences of Structural Changes to the Aging Brain Karen M. Rodrigue Kristen M. Kennedy 73
6 Behavior Genetics of Aging William S. Kremen Michael J. Lyons 93
7 Neuroplasticity, Aging, and Cognitive Function Denise C. Park Gérard N. Bischof 109
8 Memory Changes and the Aging Brain: A Multimodal Imaging Approach Lars Nyberg Lars Bäckman 121
9 Age Differences in Complex Decision Making Ellen Peters Nathan F. Dieckmann Joshua Weller 133
10 Cognitive Interventions Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow Chandramallika Basak 153
Part 3 Social and Health Factors that Impact Aging
11 The Relevance of Control Beliefs for Health and Aging Margie E. Lachman Shevaun D. Neupert Stefan Agrigoroaei 175
12 The Speedometer of Life: Stress, Health and Aging David M. Almeida Jennifer R. Piazza Robert S. Stawski Laura C. Klein 191
13 Health Disparities, Social Class, and Aging Keith E. Whitfield Roland Thorpe Sarah Szanton 207
14 Relationships between Adults and their Aging Parents Karen L. Fingerman Kira S. Birditt 219
15 Intergenerational Communication Practices Howard Giles Jessica Gasiorek 233
16 Age Stereotypes and Aging Mary Lee Hummert 249
17 Aging in the Work Context Catherine E. Bowen Martin G. Noack Ursula M. Staudinger 263
18 Wisdom, Age, and Well-Being Monika Ardelt 279
Part 4 Complex Behavioral Processes and Psychopathology of Aging
19 Emotional Experience and Regulation in Later Life Susan Turk Charles 295
20 Psychopathology, Bereavement, and Aging Susan Krauss Whitbourne Suzanne Meeks 311
21 Assessment of Emotional and Personality Disorders in Older Adults Barry A. Edelstein Daniel L. Segal 325
22 Neuropsychological Assessment of the Dementias of Late Life Stephanie Cosentino Adam M. Brickman Jennifer J. Manly 339
23 Family Caregiving for Cognitively or Physically Frail Older Adults: Theory, Research, and Practice Bob G. Knight Andres Losada 353
24 Decision Making Capacity Jennifer Moye Daniel Marson Barry Edelstein Stacey Wood Aida Saldivar 367
Author Index 381
Subject Index 413