Few prejudices in Western society are more powerful than those concerning aging. Until recently, we have assumed that the story of aging is one of loss and decline. But there's an entirely different truth. Yes, you can teach an old dog-or even a sort of old dog-new tricks. Is there a secret to staying young? It turns out that there are many, and they all begin with nurturing our existing relationships to foster brain health, keeping us happier and healthier. As readers of this book will learn, w...
AARP Loving Someone Who Has Dementia: How to Find Hope While Coping with Stress and Grief
by Pauline Boss
Zur Bedeutung Intrapersonaler Und Beziehungsspezifischer Merkmale Fuer Die Erlebte Ehequalitaet Im Mittleren Erwachsenenalter (Europaische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Europeenn, #683) (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #683)
by Marina Schmitt
Obwohl die Untersuchung der Ehequalitat und ihrer Bedingungen zu den klassischen Themen sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung gehoert, ist uber den Normalfall stabiler, langjahriger Ehen, deren Ehequalitat und die intrapersonalen und beziehungsspezifischen Merkmale wenig bekannt. Die Arbeit greift diese Forschungsdefizite auf und zeigt, dass -- bei einer etwas geringeren Ehequalitat bei den Frauen im Vergleich zu den Mannern -- von einer hohen Ehequalitat im mittleren Erwachsenenalter ausgegangen w...
Enhancing the Wellbeing and Wisdom of Older Learners: A Co-research Paradigm examines how lifelong learning, becoming wise, and sharing wisdom are integrally linked to older people’s wellbeing. The book highlights appropriate learning styles and pedagogies for older people, including research models emphasising participation, and offers recommendations for research in lifelong learning with the potential to effect change. Focusing upon a collaborative action research project, ‘Sagaciation’, ch...
The Cognitive Aspects of Aesthetic Experience - Selected Problems (Spectrum Slovakia, #18)
The book is a second volume of the project, which is focused on a systematic examination of aesthetic experience by the unification of philosophical and cognitive-scientific approaches to beauty and aesthetic experience. This volume is focused on the analysis of selected aspects of aesthetic experience, especially on methodological problems and aspects of philosophical and scientific research, the question of the complementarity and compatibility of methods, and needs to interdisciplinary and mu...
Late life is a time when loss becomes more frequent. Grief experiences accumulate as many older people grapple with diminishing adaptive reserves, changes in cognitive and emotional functioning, patterns of social integration, loneliness, and financial risk. In these years, bereavement poses an array of difficult issues for coping, assessment, and intervention. In what is certain to become a landmark volume, Hansson and Stroebe present a critical review of the literature and dominant theories in...
Die Arbeit befasst sich mit der Frage, inwieweit Gerechtigkeitserleben und Erwartungserfullung die Beziehungsqualitat und die Bindungssicherheit in einer Partnerschaft beeinflussen. Auf der Grundlage von selbst entwickelten Messinstrumenten werden Gerechtigkeitserleben und Erwartungserfullung erfasst und in Beziehung mit Beziehungsmerkmalen sowie Bindungsstilen gesetzt. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass vor allem solche Aspekte des Gerechtigkeitserlebens und der Erwartungserfullung die Beziehungsquali...
As a psychotherapist who focuses on working with the issues that challenge midlife and older men, Robert Schwalbe feels that the 60s and beyond can be the most rewarding or the most miserable period in a man's life. An aging male baby boomer looking at 60 encounters very specific psychological and physical changes. The impact of these changes can be felt in relationship to others and in how a man sees himself in his world. Does he continue to fit in? In particular, how a man adapts to being in h...
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Evolutionary Psychology, Public Policy, and Personal Decisions
by Charles Crawford and Catherine Salmon
This bk is a sequel to Crawford's LEA bk Hndbk of Evolutionary Psych'98.This new bk applies the tenets of evolutionary psych to a number of areas in the social & beh. sciences.This bk is intended for the informed layperson as well as for the senior und
Personality in Adulthood: A Five-Factor Theory Perspective
by Robert R. McCrae
People often say that you should "act your age", but what do they know? This sourcebook of delightful ideas and uplifting quotes will tempt you to try something new every day, whether it's dancing all night, laughing till dawn or watching the sunrise. Go on, go wild - you might like it!