Welcome to the world's most unique and dynamic textbook on aging!Widely praised and adopted in previous editions, the Fifth Edition of Aging once again presents key issues in an engaging and accessible fashion. Organized unlike any other traditional textbook, author Harry R. Moody presents basic concepts followed by controversies, supported by carefully chosen adapted readings. The result is the most captivating introduction to gerontology available today.
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"Some might like to read the volume to be informed about their own or their parents' aging and the ramifications of the massive demographic shift in the coming decades." (Carol A. Gosselink )
"Aging: Concepts and Controversies is powerful. It challenges instructors and students to approach learning in a different way." (Christine Caffrey )
"Aging: Concepts and Controversies is powerful. It challenges instructors and students to approach learning in a different way." (Christine Caffrey )
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Harry R. Moody is a graduate of Yale University and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University. He has taught philosophy at Columbia University, Hunter College, New York University, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. For the past 18 years he has been at the Brookdale Center on Aging of Hunter College in the City University of New York, where he is Executive Director. Earlier, at the National Council on Aging in Washington, DC, he served as Co-Director of its National Policy Center. He is the author of over 75 articles and three books: Abundance of Life: Human Development Policies for an Aging Society (1988), Ethics in an Aging Society (1992), and most recently he published The Five Stages of the Soul (1997), a study of spiritual growth in the second half of life. He is known for his work in older adult education and served as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Elderhostel. He has also been active in the field of biomedical ethics and is an Adjunct Associate of the Hastings Center, Briarcliff, New York. Dr. Moody is currently the Director of Academic Affairs for AARP in Washington, DC. He also serves as Senior Associate with the International Longevity Center-USA and Senior Fellow of Civic Ventures.
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Five hundred years ago, the Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon embarked on a journey to the New World in search of the fountain of youth. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
busy ethic, classic aging pattern, aging interest groups, retirement obsolete, maximum human life span, generational equity debate, public creativity, creative retirement, productive aging, interpretive package, conscious aging, age decrement, preretirement planning, estate recoveries, organ reserve, rectangular curve, ration health care, retirement role, social adequacy, gray lobby, maximum life span, natural life span, readings that follow, entire life course, life prolongation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Uncle Bert, Bureau of the Census, Daniel Callahan, World War, Supreme Court, Older Americans Act, Wisdom Corps, Health Care Financing Administration, Sun City, African Americans, Department of Labor, General Accounting Office, Government Printing Office, Great Depression, New Jersey, Erik Erikson, Harvey Lehman, Office of Inspector General, The Gerontologist, Gene Cohen, Journal of Gerontology, Lester Thurow, Sidney Hook New!
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busy ethic, classic aging pattern, aging interest groups, retirement obsolete, maximum human life span, generational equity debate, public creativity, creative retirement, productive aging, interpretive package, conscious aging, age decrement, preretirement planning, estate recoveries, organ reserve, rectangular curve, ration health care, retirement role, social adequacy, gray lobby, maximum life span, natural life span, readings that follow, entire life course, life prolongation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Uncle Bert, Bureau of the Census, Daniel Callahan, World War, Supreme Court, Older Americans Act, Wisdom Corps, Health Care Financing Administration, Sun City, African Americans, Department of Labor, General Accounting Office, Government Printing Office, Great Depression, New Jersey, Erik Erikson, Harvey Lehman, Office of Inspector General, The Gerontologist, Gene Cohen, Journal of Gerontology, Lester Thurow, Sidney Hook New!
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- On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross on page 30, and Back Matter
- The Generational Equity Debate by John B. Williamson on page 205, and Back Matter
- Social Forces and Aging by Robert C. Atchley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, Fifth Edition (Handbooks of Aging) by James E. Birren in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Life-Span Devevelopment and Behavior: Volume 10 (Life-Span Development and Behavior Series) by Paul B. Baltes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Dictionary of Medical Sociology by William C. Cockerham in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Generatives Verhalten und Generationenbeziehungen: Festschrift für Bernhard Nauck zum 60. Geburtstag (German Edition) by Anja Steinbach on page 195
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