Productive Aging

Concepts and Challenges
Herausgeber: Hinterlong, James; Sherraden, Michael; Morrow-Howell, Nancy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"This book will find most of its audience among the social gerontologists, but can be read by practitioners with merit... Many trainees could be stimulated by this excellent work to creative thinking." -- Doody's Book of Review Service "A systematic definitive account of the concept of productive aging." -- Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 732g
• ISBN-13: 9780801865572
• ISBN-10: 0801865573
• Artikelnr.: 22209764

Autorenporträt

Nancy Morrow-Howell is an associate professor and chair of the Ph.D. program at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University. She is the principal investigator for several studies on productivity in later life and on the use of community services and mental health services for older adults. James Hinterlong is a research associate at the Center for Social Development and serves on the public policy committee for the St. Louis Alzheimer's Association and on the Curriculum Development Committee and Project Research Team of the national OASIS Health Stages program. Michael Sherraden is the Benjamin E. Youngdahl Professor of Social Development at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University and founding director of the Center for Social Development.