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 1292027177
- ISBN13 9781292027173
- Publish Date 1 November 2013 (first published 20 August 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Pearson Education Limited
- Edition 9th edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 712
- Language English