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The study of ""the end of life"" has become a major focus on medicine, the social sciences, ethics, and religion. This volume brings together the latest research on issues around death and dying, life's attributes as it nears death, planning and preparation for death, and care and intervetion-related issues. This evidence-based finding of this volume will help shape how we approach the topic for years to come.
Advance directives (Medical care) --- Death --- Hospice care. --- Right to die. --- Terminal care. --- End-of-life care --- Terminally ill --- Care of the sick --- Critical care medicine --- Death, Right to --- Death with dignity --- Natural death (Right to die) --- Life and death, Power over --- Do-not-resuscitate orders --- Euthanasia --- Suicide --- Terminal care --- Advance health care directives --- Advance healthcare directives --- Advance medical directives --- Advanced directives (Medical care) --- Directives, Advance (Medical care) --- Healthcare directives, Advance --- Medical directives, Advance --- Medical care --- Patient advocacy --- Right to die --- Social aspects. --- Care and treatment
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This volume of the Annual Review focuses attention precisely on the neglected documentation and explanation of heterogeneity of how people grow older within society. The society of special interest is the United States in relatively recent decades, although some of the chapters include instructive comparisons with other societies.
Aging. --- Old age. --- Geriatrics -- Periodicals. --- Geriatrics. --- Gerontology -- Periodicals. --- Gerontology. --- Later life (Human life cycle) --- Senescence --- Adulthood --- Age --- Longevity --- Older people --- Ageing --- Developmental biology --- Gerontology --- Age factors in disease --- Physiological effect
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This volume evaluates a range of assessment measures with regard to older adults. The expert contributors address topics such as assessment of health, functional disability (ADLs), mental agility, aging and personality, depression, and pain. While the instruments themselves are readily available from other sources, this book discusses the suitability, strengths, and weaknesses of various measures and offers current information on the rapidly changing, state-of-the-art assessment technology.
Geriatrics. --- Gerontology. --- Social sciences --- Geriatrics --- Older people --- Medicine --- Gerontology --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene
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This book contains a series of papers covering the major areas of the psychology of aging. The papers are organized into five categories : (a) foundations of gerontology, (b) clinical psychology, (c) experimental psychology, (d) developmental aspects of aging, and (e) social aspects of aging. The purpose of the book is to serve as a sourcebook for academic and research workers in the field. This volume represents the state of psychological knowledge and the key issues in the psychology of aging at the close of 1971. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
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Gerontology --- Research --- Methodology --- Longitudinal studies --- Geriatrics. --- Longitudinal Studies. --- Research Design. --- -Gerontology --- -Social sciences --- Geriatrics --- Older people --- Data Adjustment --- Data Reporting --- Design, Experimental --- Designs, Experimental --- Error Sources --- Experimental Designs --- Matched Groups --- Methodology, Research --- Problem Formulation --- Research Methodology --- Research Proposal --- Research Technics --- Research Techniques --- Scoring Methods --- Experimental Design --- Adjustment, Data --- Adjustments, Data --- Data Adjustments --- Design, Research --- Designs, Research --- Error Source --- Formulation, Problem --- Formulations, Problem --- Group, Matched --- Groups, Matched --- Matched Group --- Method, Scoring --- Methods, Scoring --- Problem Formulations --- Proposal, Research --- Proposals, Research --- Reporting, Data --- Research Designs --- Research Proposals --- Research Technic --- Research Technique --- Scoring Method --- Source, Error --- Sources, Error --- Technic, Research --- Technics, Research --- Technique, Research --- Techniques, Research --- Clinical Trials Data Monitoring Committees --- Longitudinal Survey --- Longitudinal Study --- Longitudinal Surveys --- Studies, Longitudinal --- Study, Longitudinal --- Survey, Longitudinal --- Surveys, Longitudinal --- -Methodology --- methods --- -Longitudinal studies --- Longitudinal Studies --- Research Design --- Research Strategy --- Research Strategies --- Strategies, Research --- Strategy, Research --- Social sciences --- Research&delete& --- Bogalusa Heart Study --- California Teachers Study --- Framingham Heart Study --- Jackson Heart Study --- Tuskegee Syphilis Study --- Bogalusa Heart Studies --- California Teachers Studies --- Framingham Heart Studies --- Heart Studies, Bogalusa --- Heart Studies, Framingham --- Heart Studies, Jackson --- Heart Study, Bogalusa --- Heart Study, Framingham --- Heart Study, Jackson --- Jackson Heart Studies --- Studies, Bogalusa Heart --- Studies, California Teachers --- Studies, Jackson Heart --- Study, Bogalusa Heart --- Study, California Teachers --- Syphilis Studies, Tuskegee --- Syphilis Study, Tuskegee --- Teachers Studies, California --- Teachers Study, California --- Tuskegee Syphilis Studies
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In this timely volume, prestigious contributors incorporate new knowledge from general psychology into a more comprehensive and accessible view of emotion in adult development and aging. The first chapter sets the stage by providing an overview of emotion across the entire life-span. Subsequent chapters examine and consider thought-provoking themes including: how feelings are used in interpersonal communication across the years of adulthood; the linkage between stressful life events and the occurrence of disease; and the changes in emotional intensity and emotional understanding as we age. Thi
Emotions. --- Aging. --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Gerontology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Feelings --- Human emotions --- Passions --- Psychology --- Affect (Psychology) --- Affective neuroscience --- Apathy --- Pathognomy --- Physiological effect
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During the past few decades, the dramatic social changes with regard to our aging population and changes in the family unit have made both demographic and socioeconomic consequences, as well as an effect on matters of social policy. The prestigious editors, George L. Maddox and M. Powell Lawton, have assembled an impressive group of expert contributors whose chapters address topics from the latest theory and research findings to the changing balance of work and families, as well as patterns of kinship.
Aging. --- Kinship. --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Families --- Kin recognition --- Age --- Ageing --- Senescence --- Developmental biology --- Gerontology --- Longevity --- Age factors in disease --- Physiological effect
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Adulthood --- Aging --- Maturation (Psychology). --- Psychological aspects. --- Psychological aspects.
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