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Notes on contributors -- Preface / Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Martin J. Sliwinski -- Foundations -- Theoretical perspectives : a biopsychosocial approach to positive aging / Elliot M. Friedman and Carol D. Ryff -- Demography of aging: behavioral and social implications / Susan Krauss Whitbourne and Stacey B. Whitbourne -- Late life : a venue for studying the mechanisms by which contextual factors influence individual development / Denis Gerstorf and Nilam Ram -- Methodological issues in research on adult development and aging / Scott M. Hofer, Philippe Rast, and Andrea M. Piccinin -- Physical changes and health -- Physical exercise and health / Leslie I. Katzel and Gregory M. Steinbrenner -- Behavioral stability and change in health across the adult life cycle / Ilene C. Siegler and Adam Davey -- Cognition -- Processing speed / Judith Dirk and Florian Schmiedek -- Working memory / David P. McCabe and Vanessa M. Loaiza -- Memory and aging / Brent J. Small, Kerri S. Rawson, Sarah Eisel, and Cathy L. McEvoy -- Everyday cognition / Jason C. Allaire -- Personality -- Personality development in adulthood / Nicky J. Newton and Abigail J. Stewart -- Socioemotional perspectives on adult development / Jennifer Tehan Stanley and Derek M. Isaacowitz -- Personality and aging: cognitive perspectives and processes / Eileen Kranz Graham and Margie E. Lachman -- Abnormal aging -- Affective disorders and age: the view through a developmental lens / Jennifer R. Piazza and Susan Turk Charles -- Alzheimer?s disease and other dementias / Joshua R. Steinerman and Richard B. Lipton -- Personality disorders in later life / Daniel L. Segal, Richard Zweig, and Victor Molinari -- Assessment of older adults / Christine E. Gould, Barry A. Edelstein, and Lindsay A. Gerolimatos -- Social processes -- Self-regulation and social cognition in adulthood : the gyroscope of personality / Cory Bolkan and Karen Hooker -- Partners and friends in adulthood / Rosemary Blieszner and Karen A. Roberto -- Intergenerational relationships and aging / Kira S. Birditt and Elvina Wardjiman -- Retirement : an adult development perspective / Mo Wang -- Well-being and creativity -- Effects of remaining time for psychological well-being and cognition / Boo Johansson and Anne Ingeborg Berg -- Successful aging / Colin A. Depp, Ipsit V. Vahia, and Dilip V. Jeste -- Creative productivity and aging : an age decrement : or not? / Dean Keith Simonton -- Author index -- Subject index

This exceptional collection draws on the most recent demographic data and combines classic research with cutting-edge approaches to provide an invaluable overview of the developmental psychology of the adult years. Covers a wide range of topics within adult development and aging, from theoretical perspectives to specific content areasIncludes newly commissioned essays from the top researchers in the fieldTakes a biopsychosocial perspective, covering the biological, psychological and social changes that occur in adulthood

This exceptional collection draws on the most recent demographic data and combines classic research with cutting-edge approaches to provide an invaluable overview of the developmental psychology of the adult years. Covers a wide range of topics within adult development and aging, from theoretical perspectives to specific content areasIncludes newly commissioned essays from the top researchers in the fieldTakes a biopsychosocial perspective, covering the biological, psychological and social changes that occur in adulthood

This exceptional collection draws on the most recent demographic data and combines classic research with cutting-edge approaches to provide an invaluable overview of the developmental psychology of the adult years. Covers a wide range of topics within adult development and aging, from theoretical perspectives to specific content areasIncludes newly commissioned essays from the top researchers in the fieldTakes a biopsychosocial perspective, covering the biological, psychological and social changes that occur in adulthood

This paper reviews different methodological approaches taken to examine terminal decline in cognitive function, and presents new findings from the Bronx Aging Study (BAS). Numerous approaches have been taken to assess mortality effects on cognition: comparing survivors and decedents level and rate of change in cognition, and identifying individual differences in cognition associated with time-to-death. However, few studies have actually modeled within-person change in cognition as a function of time-to-death. Using linear mixed models with a change point, intraindividual change in episodic memory was modeled as a function of both age and time-to-death. A dramatic increase in the rate of decline was identified at 8.4 years prior to death, providing clear evidence of a terminal-decline phase that is much longer than previously estimated. These results emphasize the importance of modeling the time course and effects of terminal cognitive decline for understanding cognitive change in aging adults.