The Cambridge Handbook of Age and Ageing

Table of Contents

• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Preface
• Part I. Introduction and Overview:
• 1.1 Are theories of ageing necessary?
• 1.2 Ageing and changing: international historical perspectives on ageing
• 1.3 Global ageing: the demographic revolution in all cultures and societies
• 1.4 The psychological science of human ageing
• 1.5 The biological science of human ageing
• Part II. The Ageing Body:
• 2.1 Biodemography and epidemiology of longevity
• 2.2 The epidemiology of ageing
• 2.3 Patterns of illness and mortality across the adult lifespan
• 2.4 Sensory impairment
• 2.5 Mobility and falls
• 2.6 The genetics of behavioural ageing
• 2.7 Psychodynamic approaches to the life-course & ageing
• 2.8 Cultural approaches to the ageing body
• 2.9 Promoting health and well being in later life
• Part III. The Ageing Mind:
• 3.1 Psychological approaches to human development
• 3.2 Cognitive changes across the lifespan
• 3.3 Age-related changes in memory
• 3.4 Intelligence and wisdom
• 3.5 Everyday competence in older adults
• 3.6 The psychology of emotions and ageing
• 3.7 Personality and ageing
• 3.8 Depression
• 3.9 Dementia
• 3.10 Dementia in an Asian context
• Part IV. The Ageing Self:
• 4.1 Self and identity
• 4.2 Stress and coping
• 4.3 Reminiscence: developmental, social and clinical perspectives
• 4.4 The social worlds of old age
• 4.5 Listening to the past: reminiscence and oral history
• 4.6 Elder abuse in developing nations
• 4.7 The self in dementia
• 4.8 Ageism
• 4.9 Profiles of the oldest-old
• 4.10 Images of ageing: cultural representations of later life
• 4.11 Religion, spirituality and older people
• 4.12 Quality of life and ageing
• 4.13 The transformation of dying in old societies
• 4.14 The psychology of death
• 4.15 Death and spirituality
• Part V. The Ageing of Relationships:
• 5.1 Global ageing and challenges to families
• 5.2 Aging parents and adult children: new perspectives on intergenerational relationships
• 5.3 Grandparenthood
• 5.4 Sibling ties across time: the middle and later years
• 5.5 Filial piety in changing Asian societies
• 5.6 Generational memory and family relationships
• 5.7 Family caregivers: increasing demands in the context of 21st century globalization?
• 5.8 Network dynamics in later life
• 5.9 Changing family relationships in developing nations
• 5.10 Ethnic diversity in aging, multi-cultural societies
• 5.11 Gay and lesbian elders
• Part VI. The Ageing of Societies:
• 6.1 The lifecourse perspective on ageing: linked lives, timing and history
• 6.2 The political economy of old age
• 6.3 Moral economy and ageing
• 6.4 Generational changes and generational equity
• 6.5 Gender dimensions of the age shift
• 6.6 Migration and older people
• 6.7 Do longevity and health generate wealth?
• 6.8 Women, ageing and inequality: a feminist perspective
• Part VII. Policies and Provisions for Older People:
• 7.1 The social construction of old age as a problem
• 7.2 Restructuring the life course: work and retirement
• 7.3 Ethical dilemmas in old age care
• 7.4 Wealth, health, and ageing: the multiple modern complexities of financial gerontology
• 7.5 Formal and informal community care for older adults
• 7.6 Health policy and old age: an international review
• 7.7 Gerontological nursing: the state of the art
• 7.8 Delivering effective social/long-term care to older people
• 7.9 Delivering care to older people at home 7.10 Long-term care
• 7.11 Managed care in the United States and United Kingdom
• 7.12 Health care rationing: is age a proper criterion?
• 7.13 Adaptation to new technologies
• 7.14 Ageing and public policy in ethnically diverse societies
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