This best-selling, multidisciplinary, social aging text presents positive images of aging while considering the many factors that contribute to how aging individuals experiences life.
Up-to-date and expanded, this text offers a comprehensive view that presents aging positively, portraying concepts of active aging and resiliency, and defining “productive aging” by elaborating on the numerous ways elders contribute to society and their families. Based on the latest research findings, it offers greater depth to critical issues of aging, attending to differences by age and cohort, gender, ethnic minority status, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status.
- ISBN10 0205423345
- ISBN13 9780205423347
- Publish Date 26 August 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pearson
- Edition 7th edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 704
- Language English