Aging : concepts and controversies /: concepts and controversies. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Harry R. Moody, Director of Academic Affairs, AARP, (Retired), Jennifer R. Sasser, Marylhurst University.
• Authors: Moody, Harry R; Sasser, Jennifer R
• Contents: Preface; Prologue; About the Authors; Basic Concepts I. A Life Course Perspective on Aging; Age Identification; The Stages of Life; The Life Course and Aging; Traditional Theories of Aging; Influences on the Life Course; Aging in the 21st Century; The Biology of Aging; Mechanisms of Physical Aging; Aging and Psychological Functioning; Conclusion; Controversy 1. Does Old Age Have Meaning?; The Meaning of Age; Leisure Activities in Later Life; Religion and Spirituality; Gerontology and the Meaning of Age; Activity or Reflection?; Reading 1: The Coming of Age, Simone de Beauvoir; Reading 2: Vital Involvement in Old Age, Erik H. Erikson, Joan M. Erikson, and Helen Q. Kivnick; Reading 3: Successful Aging, John Rowe and Robert Kahn; Reading 4: The Measure of My Days, Florida Scott-Maxwell; Controversy 2. Why Do Our Bodies Grow Old?; The Process of Biological Aging; Biological Theories of Aging; Is Aging Inevitable?; Ways to Prolong the Life Span; Compression or Prolongation of Morbidity?; Reading 5: Why Do We Live as Long as We Do? Leonard Hayflick; Reading 6: Vitality and Aging, James F. Fries and Lawrence Crapo; Reading 7: The Compression of Morbidity Hypothesis, Vincent Mor; Reading 8: Health Trends in the Elderly Population, Marti G. Parker and Mats Thorslund; Reading 9: We Will Be Able to Live to 1, 000, Aubrey de Grey; Reading 10: Don’t Fall for the Cult of Immortality, S. Jay Olshansky; Controversy 3. Do Intelligence and Creativity Decline With Age?; Elements of Cognitive Function; The Classic Aging Pattern; Measures of Late-Life Intelligence; Studies of Age and Cognitive Function; Correlates of Cognitive Stability; Creativity in an Aging Population; Reading 11: Age and Achievement, Harvey Lehman; Reading 12: Age and Achievement, Wayne Dennis; Reading 13: Growing Old or Living Long, Laura L. Carstensen; Reading 14: The Mature Mind, Gene Cohen; Reading 15: Aging and Creativity, Becca Levy and Ellen Langer; Basic Concepts II. Aging, Health Care, and Society; The Challenge of Longevity; Epidemiology of Aging; Economics of Health Care; Long-Term Care; Self-Determined Death; Conclusion; Controversy 4. Should We Ration Health Care For Older People?; Precedents for Health Care Rationing; The Justification for Age-Based Rationing; Rationing as a Cost-Saving Plan; The Impetus for Rationing; Cost Versus Age; Alternative Approaches to Rationing; Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide; The Debate Over Age-Based Rationing; Reading 16: Why We Must Set Limits, Daniel Callahan; Reading 17: Pricing Life, Peter Ubel; Reading 18: The Pied Piper Returns for the Old Folks, Nat Hentoff; Reading 19: From an Ethics of Rationing to an Ethics of Waste Avoidance, Howard Brody; Reading 20: Aim Not Just for Longer Life, but Expanded “Health Span, ”Daniel Perry and Robert Butler; Controversy 5. Should Families Provide For Their Own?; Aging and the American Family; Abandonment or Independence?; Family Responsibility; Medicaid and Long-Term Care; Financing Long-Term Care; Medicaid Planning; Reading 21: Medicaid and Long-Term Care, Peter J. Strauss and Nancy M. Lederman; Reading 22: Shame of the Rich, Jane Bryant Quinn; Reading 23: The Fallacy of Impoverishment, Stephen Moses; Reading 24: The Case Against Paying Family Caregivers, C. Jean Blaser; Reading 25: For Love and Money, Suzanne R. Kunkel, Robert A. Applebaum, and Ian M. Nelson; Controversy 6. Should Older People Be Protected From Bad Choices?; The Vulnerabilities of Older People; Interfering When People Make Bad Choices; Elder Abuse and Neglect; Perceptions of Quality of Life; Sexuality in Later Life; Crime and Older Adults; Intervention in the Lives of Vulnerable Older Adults; Reading 26: The Right to Freedom From Restraints, Robert N. Brown; Reading 27: Ethical Dilemmas in Elder Abuse, Terrie T. Wetle and Terry T. Fulmer; Reading 28: A Legal Perspective on Elder Abuse, Candace J. Heisler and Mary Joy Quinn; Reading 29: Elder Self-Neglect, Dorothy R. Fabian and Eloise Rathbone-McCuan; Controversy 7. Should People Have the Choice to End Their Lives?; Depression and Suicide; The “Right to Die”; Outlook for the Future; Reading 30: Why Do People Seek Physician-Assisted Death? Robert A. Pearlman and Helene Starks; Reading 31: A Time to Die, Charles F. McKhann; Reading 32: Last Rights, Sue Woodman; Reading 33: Neither for Love nor Money, Leon Kass; Basic Concepts III. Social and Economic Outlook for an Aging Society; The Varieties of Aging Experience; The Economic Status of Older Americans; Public Policy on Aging; Conclusion; Controversy 8. Should Age or Need Be the Basis for Entitlement?; A Tale of Two Generations; Justice Between Generations; The Least-Advantaged Older Adults; Help for Those Most in Need; The Targeting Debate; Reading 34: Growing Older, Lester Thurow; Reading 35: Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old? Peter G. Peterson; Reading 36: “Generational Equity” and the New Victim Blaming, Meredith Minkler; Reading 37: The Generational Equity Debate, John B. Williamson, Diane M. Watts-Ray, and Eric R. Kingson; Controversy 9. What is the Future for Social Security?; Main Features of Social Security; Success—and Doubt; Pay as You Go; Social Security Trust Fund; Eligibility; Privatization; Women and Social Security; Debate Over Social Security; Reading 38: How to Save Social Security, Peter Diamond and Peter Orszag; Reading 39: The Necessity and Desirability of Social Security Reform, Ramesh Ponnuru; Reading 40: Social Security Reform and Benefit Adequacy, Lawrence H. Thompson; Reading 41: Social Security for Yesterday’s Family? C. Eugene Steuerle and Melissa Favreault; Reading 42: The Future of Social Security, AARP; Controversy 10. Is Retirement Obsolete?; History of Retirement; Origins of Late-Life Leisure; Changes in the American Economy; A New View of Retirement; Debate Over Retirement Policy; Reading 43: Achieving a Productive Aging Society, Francis G. Caro, Scott A. Bass, and Yung-Ping Chen; Reading 44: Prime Time, Marc Freedman; Reading 45: The Busy Ethic, David J. Ekerdt; Reading 46: Moving Toward a Creative Retirement, Ronald J. Manheimer; Controversy 11. Aging Boomers: Boom or Bust?; Who Are the Boomers?; What Is a Generation? Age-Period-Cohort Analysis; Social Construction of the Boomer Phenomenon; Boomers in the Years Ahead; Reading 47: Boomsday, Christopher Buckley; Reading 48: No Country for Young Men, Megan McArdle; Reading 49: The Longevity Revolution, Theodore Roszak; Reading 50: The Long Baby Boom, Jeff Goldsmith; Controversy 12. The New Aging Marketplace; The New Customer Majority; One Market Sector Likely to Grow; What Do Older Consumers Want?; Limits of the Marketplace Model; Reading 51: Overview of the Boomer Market, Mary Furlong; Reading 52: Age Branding, Harry R. Moody and Sanjay Sood; Reading 53: Selling the Fountain of Youth, Arlene Weintraub; Reading 54: Marketplace of Memory, Daniel R. George and Peter J. Whitehouse; Epilogue: Finding Your Place in an Aging Society; Appendix: How to Research a Term Paper in Gerontology; Glossary; Bibliography; Photo Credits; Index;
• Edition: Eighth edition
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxxiii, 565 pages), illiustrations
• Subjects: 305.260973; Gerontology -- United States; Aging -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781483312156; 1483312151
• Related ISBNs: 9781452275888
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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