Ian Stuart-Hamilton

The Psychology of Ageing

An Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This well-established text has been completely revised in this expanded fifth edition. Each chapter has been updated to reflect current thinking, and a new chapter on death, dying and bereavement has been added. This new edition is essential reading for all those working with older people, and a key text for students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• 5 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 824g
• ISBN-13: 9781849052450
• ISBN-10: 184905245X
• Artikelnr.: 34787372

Autorenporträt

Ian Stuart-Hamilton is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Glamorgan, Wales. He has over thirty years' research experience in a wide variety of psychological techniques and settings. The Psychology of Ageing is now translated into 16 languages, and was awarded a British Medical Association Book of the Year award in the Geriatric Medicine section in 2008.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the Fifth Edition. 1. What is Ageing? 2. Measuring Intellectual
Change in Later Life. 3. Ageing and Memory. 4. Ageing and Language. 5.
Ageing, Personality and Lifestyle. 6. Mental Health in Later Life. 7.
Problems in Measuring the Psychological Status of Older People. 8. Dying,
Death and Bereavement. 9. What is the Future of Ageing? Appendix I: Basic
Anatomy of the Nervous System. Appendix II: Fluid and Crystallized
Intelligence. Appendix III: Basic Psycholinguistic Concepts. Appendix IV:
The later career of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Glossary. References. Index.