Lives Through the Years
Styles of Life and Successful Aging
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Routledge
- Date of Publication 15 December 2006
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780202309019
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages314 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 498 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Offers an account of the process of aging that provides answers and dispels once and for many of the myths surrounding the close to 20 million Americans who are over sixty-five. This is a volume of social inquiry and interpretation, which marks a major scientific advance in its field, and opens up new horizons for fruitful research.
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Growing old - what is it like? What are the main problems of the aging? Lack of fulfillment in their work and life? Loneliness? Anxiety about sickness and disability? Fear of death? This well-documented, theoretically systematic, and vivid account of the process of aging provides highly enlightening answers and dispels once and for all many of the myths surrounding the close to 20 million Americans who are over sixty-five. Building upon the results of extensive interviews, the authors have established the existence of six styles and have concluded that a successful transition to old age can be achieved through any of them. They have also developed a definition of success, which has practical implications, since it deals with the extent to which an individual contributes or is a burden to the lives of those around him. The combined analysis of style and success results in a better understanding of individual differences in aging. The reader comes to know and understand the subjects as if he had worked with them in person. The wealth of detail the case histories contain permits scholars and students to judge for themselves the validity of the authors' findings. Derived from this unusually rich body of material, the authors' conclusions and recommendations are invaluable to all concerned with the study, the treatment, and the counseling of the aged. "Lives Through the Years" is a pioneering volume of social inquiry and interpretation, which marks a major scientific advance in its field, opens up new horizons for fruitful research, and offers a stimulating and authoritative portrayal of one of the most important problems of our society.
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Foreword, Acknowledgments, One. BACKGROUND AND NATURE OF THE STUDY, Two. WORLD OF WORK, Three. FAMILISM, Four. LIVING ALONE, Five. COUPLEHOOD, Six. EASING THROUGH LIFE WITH MINIMAL INVOLVEMENT, Seven. LIVING FULLY, Eight. SUCCESS AND STYLE, Nine. SOME RELATED OBSERVATIONS, Ten. STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSIONS, Appendix One. GENERAL PERSPECTIVES OF THE KANSAS CITY STUDY OF ADULT LIFE, Appendix Two. RANK ORDER OF SUCCESSFUL AGING BY STYLE, Index, Index of Case Histories
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