Suchergebnisse

Prologue: finding new beacons: searching for timeless and interdisciplinary perspectives / George L. Maddox -- Identifying enduring questions in gerontology / Jon Hendricks, Debra Sheets, and Dana Burr Bradley -- A biologist's perspective: whence come we, where are we, whither go we? / Steven N. Austad -- New avenues, new questions, and changing perspectives in geriatric medicine / Kenneth Brummel-Smith -- New avenues, new questions, and changing perspectives in geriatric medicine / Kenneth Brummel-Smith -- The analytic template in the psychology of aging / Manfred Diehl and Alissa Dark-Freudeman -- The dynamic nature of societal aging in a global perspective / Chris Phillipson -- Whatever happened to culture? / Christine L. Fry -- The contributions of philosophy and ethics in the study of age / Martha Holstein and Mark Waymack -- Historical gerontology: it is a matter of time / W. Andrew Achenbaum -- The purview and sweep of aging policy / Phoebe S. Liebig -- Epilogue: gerontology-past, present, and future / James E. Birren

"With the world's population getting increasingly older, there has never been a more pressing need for the study of old age and ageing. An Introduction to Gerontology provides a wide-ranging introduction to this important topic. By assuming no prior expert knowledge and avoiding jargon, this book will guide students through all the main subjects in gerontology, covering both traditional areas, such as biological and social ageing, as well as more contemporary areas, such as technology, the arts, sexuality and education of older adults. An Introduction to Gerontology is written by a team of international authors with multidisciplinary backgrounds who draw evidence from a variety of different perspectives and traditions"--

Introduction, an historical perspective / Prisca von Dorotka Bagnell -- The use of gerontological resources, a five year analysis of information dissemination / Willie M. Edwards -- Integrating information technology in gerontology, the Andrus Gerontological Information Center / Margaret Kronauer Longo, Stewart R. Greathouse, Jean E. Mueller -- The National Gerontology Resource Center / Paula M. Lovas -- Information transfer in gerontology and health, a centralized and decentralized model / Marta L. Dosa -- The National Archive of Computer-Readable Data on Aging / Susan B. Haberkorn, Michael W. Traugott -- Information documentation on aging in an international context, an analysis by an information user / George Thomas Beall -- Selections of multidisciplinary information sources / Janet R. Bailin, Sherry Morgan -- Canadian information resources and services in gerontology and geriatrics / Elaine Duwors, Joanne Gard Marshall, Gale Moore -- Collecting books on old age / Joseph T. Freeman