Social structures and aging individuals: continuing challenges : [edited proceedings of a conference held at the Pennsylvania State University, October 9 - 10, 2006]
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The waters we swim : everyday social processes, macro-structural realities and human aging / Dale Dannefer -- To act or not to act : using statistics or feelings to reduce disease risk morbidity and mortality / Howard Leventhal, Tamara J. Musumeci, and Elaine A. Leventhal -- Religion, health, and health behavior / Neal Krause -- Commentary : assessing health behaviors across individuals, situations, and time / David Almeida, Susan T. Charles, and Shevaun D. Neupert -- From static to dynamic : the on-going dialectic about human development / Nilam Ram ... [et al.] -- Those who have, get : social structure, environmental complexity, intellectual functioning and self-directed orientations in the elderly / Carmi Schooler and Leslie J. Caplan -- Commentary : personality, emotion, and cognition : some comments / Freda Blanchard-Fields -- Technology as multiplier effect for an aging work force / Neil Charness -- No career for you : is that a good or bad thing? / David Ekerdt -- Commentary : new employment structures : varieties of impact on aging workers / James L. Farr and Alexander R. Schwall -- Aging, history, and the course of life : social structures and cultural -- Meanings / Thomas Cole, W. Andrew Achenbaum, and Nathan Carlin -- Cultural transformations, history and the experiences of aging / Christine Fry -- The aging experience, social change, and television / Rukmalie Jayakody -- Religion and intergenerational transmission over time / Vern L. Bengtson... [et al.] -- How have social institutional forces shaped family structure and well-being over the past 50 years / Mark D. Hayward -- Commentary : marital trends and familial influences : toward developing an understanding of context / Chalandra Bryant and Michelle Bragg
This is the 20th and final volume in the "Societal Impact on Aging" series. It focuses on what has been learned over the span of the previous volumes regarding the continuing challenges for older persons in a rapidly changing society and tries to forecast what may be the next set of issues to lie at the intersection of social structures and the individual aging process. The editors therefore invited major organizers of, and contributors to, the 19 earlier volumes to review both the accomplishments and omissions of their efforts, discuss some timely new topics, and provide guidelines
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