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Focus on the end of life
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ISBN: 1281806226 9786611806224 0826116612 9780826116611 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York Springer Pub. Co.

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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.


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Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 8 (1988) : Varieties of Aging
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ISBN: 1281818305 9786611818302 0826164870 9780826164872 9783662400500 3662400502 Year: 1988 Publisher: New York : Springer Publishing Company,

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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.


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Focus on assessment techniques
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ISBN: 1281818348 9786611818340 0826198058 9780826198051 Year: 1994 Publisher: New York Springer

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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.


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The psychology of adult development and aging
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Year: 1973 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association,

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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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The psychology of adult development and aging
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Year: 1973 Publisher: Washington, D.C.

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Special research methods for gerontology
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ISBN: 0895030616 Year: 1989 Publisher: Amityville Baywood

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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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Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics.
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ISBN: 1281818372 9786611818371 0826165044 9780826165046 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York : Springer,

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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


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Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics.
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ISBN: 128181833X 9786611818333 0826165060 9780826165060 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York : Springer,

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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.

Essential papers on the psychology of aging
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ISBN: 0814751253 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : New York university press,

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Focus on kinship, aging and social change
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ISBN: 0826164951 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Springer

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