Zeev Ben-Sira

Gebundenes Buch

Regression, Stress, and Readjustment in Aging

A Structured, Bio-Psychosocial Perspective on Coping and Professional Support

Beschreibung

This volume develops a comprehensive multivariate paradigm of the process of aging, delineating the factors underlying age-related degeneration. The model is aimed at understanding the conditions under which age sets into motion a process of degeneration. Accumulating evidence suggests that age per se is not the decisive factor in age-related regression--leading scholars to distinguish between chronological and functional age. The process of degeneration is evidently due to the combined impact of deleterious biophysiological, psychological, and socio-cultural factors and the interaction among them. Based on this evidence, Zeev Ben-Sira shows how age-related degeneration can be viewed as a product of a damaging cycle of reciprocally activating stimuli from the person's internal and external environment. Consequently, aging is conceptualized as a process of bio-psychosocial regression. The paradigm outlined in this volume identifies factors that are likely to accelerate or decelerate the process of aging.

Autor

ZEEV BEN-SIRA is Professor and Director of the School of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has served as a Central Committee member of the Israeli Sociological Association, and is the author of Stress, Disease, and Primary Medical Care (1986) and Politics and Primary Medical Care: Dehumanization and Overutilization (1988), as well as numerous articles in journals and books.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780275940782
• ISBN-10: 0275940780
• Artikelnr.: 25565849