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Title:

Aging 06/07 / editor, Harold Cox.

Edition:

19th ed.

Publisher:

McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series,

Copyright Date:

2007

Description:

xvi, 207 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Gerontology.
Aging.
Older people.

Other Authors:

Cox, Harold, 1935-
McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Unit 8, Social policies, programs and services for older Americans : Riding into the sunset / William Greider. Economic conundrum of an aging population / Robert Ayres -- A Study for the ages / Nancy Shute -- Puzzle of the century / Mary Duenwald -- The Demographic drivers of aging / Kevin Kinsella, David R. Phillips -- Will you live to be 100? / Thomas Perls, Margery Hutter Silver -- The Coming death shortage : why the longevity boom will make us sorry to be alive / Charles C. Mann ; Unit 2, Quality of later life : Women's sexuality as they age : the more things change, the more they stay the same / Patricia Bathalow Koch, Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield -- Successful aging / Kevin Kinsella, David R. Phillips -- The Do or die decade / Susan Brink -- We can control how we age / Lou Ann Walker ; Unit 3, Societal attitudes toward old age : Society fears the aging process / Mary Pipher -- Ageism in America / David Carry -- The Activation of aging stereotypes in younger and older Americans / Alison L. Chasteen, Norbert Schwartz, Denise C. Park -- The Under-reported impact of age discrimination and its threat to business vitality / Robert J. Grossman ; Unit 4, Problems and potentials of aging : Primary care for elderly people, why do doctors find it so hard? / Wendy L. Adams et al. -- Breakthrough / David Newman -- Will you still need me when I'm ... 84? : more couples divorce after decades / Jeffrey Zaslow -- The Disappearing mind / Geoffrey Cowley -- Alzheimer's disease as a "trip back in time" / Christopher J. Johnson, Roxanna H. Johnson ; Unit 5, Retirement, American dream or dilemma? : How to survive the first year / Kelly Greene -- Reshaping retirement : scenarios and options / Michael Moynagh -- Old, smart, productive / Peter Coy -- Work, retirement and well-being / Kevin Kinsella, David R. Phillips -- Work/retirement choices and lifestyle patterns of older Americans / Harold Cox...et al. ; Unit 6, Experience of dying : More hospice patients forgoing sustenance / Janet McConnaughey -- Expectancy of spousal death and adjustment to conjugal bereavement / Edward F. Donnelly, Nigel P. Field, Mardi J. Horowitz -- Start the conversation / AARP Modern Maturity -- Trends in causes of death among the elderly / Nadine R. Sahyoun...et al. ; Unit 7, Living environment in later life : (Not) the same old story / Chuck Salter -- A Home for the rest of your life / Jane Bennett Clark -- Assisted living : how much assistance can you really count on? / Consumer Reports -- The City of Laguna Woods : a case of senior power in local politics / Ross Andel, Phoebe S. Liebig ; Unit 8, Social policies, programs and services for older Americans : Have seniors been dealt a bad hand? : Medicare's drug discount cards / Agewise: Alliance for Retired Americans -- Long-term care, the ticking bomb / Governing Universalism without the targeting, privatizing the old-age welfare state / Pamela Herd Prescription for change / Matt Leingang Riding into the sunset / William Greider.

Series:

Annual editions

ISBN:

0073516147
9780073516141

OCLC:

(OCoLC)84848032

Locations:

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)