Handbook of aging and the social sciences

Publication Data

• Title Handbook of aging and the social sciences
• Contributors Linda K. George, Kenneth F. Ferraro
• Publisher Academic Press
• Publication date 2015
• Publication location Amsterdam
• Language English

Descriptive Notes

Previous edition: 2011.

Contents

1. Aging, the Life Course, and the Sociological Imagination (new)
2. Aging, Cohorts, and Methods/Quantitative Methods (new focus)
3. Qualitative Methods (new)
4. Demography of Aging (new focus)
5. Immigration (new)
6. Global Aging (new focus)
7. Racial and Ethnic Influences over the Life Course (new focus)
8. Stratification and Inequality over the Life Course
9. Gender and Aging
10. Families (new)
11. Health Disparities among Older Adults
12. Social Factors and Cognition (new)
13. Stress and Aging (new)
14. Caregiving (new)
15. Economic Status of the Aged in the United States
16. Employment and Aging
17. Effects of Neighborhoods and the Built Environment (new)
18. Effects of Natural Disasters on Older Adults (new)
19. Politics and Aging in the United States (new focus)
20. The Future of Retirement Security
21. Organization and Financing of Health Care
22. Religion and Health in Later Life (new)
23. Social Networks of Older people (new)
24. Aging and Sexual Behavior (new)
25. Early Origins of Adult Health (new)

Topics

• Gerontology
• Older people :: Social conditions :: 21st century
• Aging :: Social aspects

Handbook of aging and the social sciences. ISBN 9780124172852. Published by Academic Press in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.