Gebundenes Buch

Challenges of the Third Age

Meaning and Purpose in Later Life

Herausgeber: Weiss, Robert Stuart; Weiss, Robert S; Bass, Scott A

Beschreibung

This volume addresses the issues of the Third Age--that timeafter retirement when financial stability and reducedobligations to others, together, allow for freedom--and goodhealth makes it possible to enjoy that freedom. How, in thisspecial time of life, is meaning and purpose to be found?And what alternatives are available? These difficultquestions are responded to by scholars in the field ofaging, some themselves in the Third Age.

Autor

Robert S. Weiss is Senior Fellow and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the Gerontology Institute, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Scott A. Bass is Dean of the Graduate School, Vice Provost for Research, and Distinguished Professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780195133394
• ISBN-10: 0195133390
• Artikelnr.: 24521493