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Title:

Challenges of the third age : meaning and purpose in later life / edited by Robert S. Weiss & Scott A. Bass.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

x, 206 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age.
Older people--Psychology.
Meaning (Psychology)
Aging--psychology.
Aged.
Goals.
Quality of Life.
Self Concept.
Zin (filosofie)
Zelfverwerkelijking.
Ouderen.
Kwaliteit van het bestaan.
Actualisation de soi chez la personne âgée.
Personnes âgées--Psychologie.
Signification (Psychologie)

Other Authors:

Weiss, Robert Stuart, 1925-
Bass, Scott A.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Holding onto meaning through the life cycle / Peter Marris -- The third age / Robert L. Rubinstein -- The changing meaning of aging / Harry R. Moody -- Social sources of meaning in later life / Richard A. Settersten, Jr. -- Aging, place, and meaning in the face of changing circumstances / Graham D. Rowles & Hege Ravdal -- Bringers of Allah : the Druse elders / David Gutmann -- Aging, intimate relationships, and life story among gay men / Bertram J. Cohler & Andrew J. Hostetler -- Looking for meaning in a life's experience / Robert Morris -- The search for meaning in the later years : the views of a seventy-four-year-old gerontological social worker / Rose Dobrof -- Epilogue : Concluding note on meaning and the possibility of productive aging / Robert S. Weiss & Scott A. Bass.

ISBN:

9780195150254 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0195150252 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780195133394 (alk. paper)
0195133390 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

00027170

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)