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This book focuses on "successful aging" and how to accomplish it. Combining research and applied perspectives, it is evenly balanced between biological, social, cognitive, and personality theory as it relates to adulthood an aging. This book takes the biopsychosocial perspective that is gaining ascendency in psychology as a whole and applies it to the years of adulthood and old age.
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This book focuses on "successful aging" and how to accomplish it. Combining research and applied perspectives, it is evenly balanced between biological, social, cognitive, and personality theory as it relates to adulthood an aging. This book takes the biopsychosocial perspective that is gaining ascendency in psychology as a whole and applies it to the years of adulthood and old age.
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In this fully updated Second Edition, leading aging expert Susan Krauss Whitbourne explores the art of successful aging, focusing on how individuals can take an active role in their aging processes and make it a rewarding developmental period, filled with vitality and creativity. This Second Edition is revised with substantially updated references, as well as recent findings on hormone replacement therapy, new information on Alzheimer’s disease, and new research on the role of obesity in heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.
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