Handbook of Gerontology Research Methods

Understanding successful aging
Herausgeber: Riby, Leigh

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Handbook of Gerotology Research Methods is a primer that provides an overview of key areas of interest, as well as an understanding of the most important research challenges and issues in this growing field. Written by a collection of international scholars, the book addresses both typical and atypical aging, highlighting hot topics such as dementia, exercise, nutrition, stress, diabetes, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease. Each chapter concludes with a series of practical tips on how to undertake successful research in this area. It is essential reading for students and researchers interested in the psychology of aging, and in related fields such as health psychology and social care.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781138779037
• ISBN-10: 1138779032
• Artikelnr.: 42740546

Autorenporträt

Dr Leigh.Riby is currently a Reader in Neuropsychology at Northumbria University, United Kingdom

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Introduction; 1. Understanding successful ageing, key challenges
and research methods; Section 2: Lifestyle factors and Psychological
Functioning; 2. Physical and Cognitive Exercise in Ageing 3. Nutrition,
Health and the Ageing Process 4. Stress, Coping and resilience in an ageing
population 5. The dual continua model of mental health and illness: Theory,
findings and applications 6. Successful aging in the Workplace: a
resources-oriented intervention perspective 7. Ageing and retirement
behaviour; Section 3: Less successful Ageing; 8. The frontal ageing
hypothesis: Evidence from Normal ageing and dementia 9. Examining cognitive
function in type 2 diabetes: the importance of an inclusive research
approach 10. Alzheimer's disease: interaction of lifestyle factors and
traumatic head injury; Section 4: Novel Interventions for dementia; 11. The
effect of music therapy for people with dementia 12. Poetry as a means of
(re)creating satisfying levels of personhood and social integration for
Alzheimer's sufferers: method discussion and outcomes; Section 5: End of
Life; 13. Death, dying and bereavement in old age: Working towards a 'good
death' for elderly individuals