Table of Contents

1: John C. Cavanaugh: Theories of Aging in the Biological, Behavioral, and Social Sciences
2: John C. Cavanaugh and Susan Krauss Whitbourne: Research Methods
3: Mark R. Luborsky and Carmit Kurn McMullen: Culture and Aging
4: Susan Krauss Whitbourne: Physical Changes
5: Carolyn M. Aldwin and Diane F. Gilmer: Immunity, Disease Processes, and Optimal Aging
6: Robert Kastenbaum: Dying and Bereavement
7: Elizabeth A.L. Stine-Morrow and Lisa M. Soederberg Miller: Basic Cognitive Processes
8: Roger A. Dixon and David F. Hultsch: Intelligence and Cognitive Potential in Later Life
9: Gisela Labouvie-Vief and Manfred Diehl: Self and Personality Development
10: Barry Edelstein and Kimberly Kalish: Clinical Assessment of Older Adults
11: Sara Honn Qualls: Mental Health and Mental Disorders in Older Adults
12: Mary Ann Parris Stephens and Melissa M. Franks: Intergenerational Relationships in Later-Life Families: Adult Daughters and Sons as Caregivers to Aging Parents
13: Harvey L. Sterns and Jennifer Hurd Gray: Work, Leisure, and Retirement
14: Michael A. Smyer and Rebecca Allen-Burge: Older Adults Decision-Making Capacity: Institutional Settings and Individual Choices
15: Robert H. Binstock Index: Public Policy Issues

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"The editors are to be congratulated on a concise and complete volume." --Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada