Rosemary Blieszner, Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford

Handbook of Aging and the Family (eBook, PDF)

Theory and Research

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

No other reference provides such a comprehensive and timely overview of theory and research on family relationships, the contexts of family life, and major turning points in late-life families. It includes many suggestions for theoretical and practical applications for future research on a score of important topics. This multidisciplinary survey is an invaluable library reference and teaching resource intended for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, and practitioners - for gerontologists, family scholars, psychologists, sociologists, historians, social workers, health-care providers, and policy makers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 1996
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780313389658
• Artikelnr.: 37828344

Autorenporträt

Rosemary Blieszner is professor of gerontology and family studies in the Department of Family and Child Development and associate director of the Center for Gerontology at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She received her PhD from Pennsylvania State University in Human Development-Family Studies with a concentration in Adult Development and Aging. Her research focuses on family and friend relationships and psychological well-being in adulthood and old age. She is co-author, with Rebecca G. Adams of Older Adult Friendship: Structure and Process (1989) and Adult Friendship (1992).

Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford is assistant professor of psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Indianapolis. She received her PhD in developmental psychology from Rutgers University, and was a National Institute on Aging Postdoctoral Fellow with the Midwest Council for Social Research on Aging. Her research interests and publications are in family relationships of middle-aged and old adults (especially sibling relationships), family relations in a social network context, and attachment across the lifespan.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Lillian Troll Preface by Rosemary Blieszner and Victoria
Hilkevitch Bedford Background The Family Context of Aging: Trends and
Challenges by Rosemary Blieszner and Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford Historical
Perspectives on the Family and Aging by Tamara K. Hareven Aging and the
Family: Present and Future Demographic Issues by Kevin Kinsella
Theoretical Frameworks and Research Methods The Family of the Second Half
of Life: Connecting Theories and Findings by Bertram Cohler and Karen
Altergott Family Relations and Individual Development in Adulthood and
Aging by Carol D. Ryff and Marsha Mailick Seltzer Feminist Perspectives on
Social Gerontology by Helena Znaniecka Lopata Family Dynamics and the
Leisure Experiences of Older Adults: Theoretical Viewpoints by Jay A.
Mancini and Dan M. Sandifer Methods and Analysis of Family Data by David J.
Mangen Family Relationships Marriage and Close Relationships of the Marital
Kind by Margaret Hellie Huyck Sibling Relationships in Middle and Old Age
by Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford Aged Parents and Aging Children:
Determinants of Relationship Quality by J. Jill Suitor, Karl Pillemer,
Shirley Keeton, and Julie Robison Grandparenting in an Era of Rapid Change
by Joan F. Robertson The Context of Family Life U.S. Old Age Policy and the
Family by Madonna Harrington Meyer and Marcia L. Bellas Legal Issues and
Family Involvement in Later Life Families by Robbyn R. Wacker Cultural
Diversity in the Late Life Family by Colleen L. Johnson Aging and Kinship
in Rural Context by B. Jan McCulloch Convoys of Social Relations: Family
and Friendships within a Lifespan Context by Toni C. Antonucci and Hiroko
Akiyama Turning Points and Interventions Families and Retirement by
Maximiliane Szinovacz and David J. Ekerdt The Effects of Illness on the
Family by Jeffrey W. Dwyer Death and Bereavement by Miriam S. Moss and
Sidney Z. Moss Widowhood by Shirley L. O'Bryant and Robert O. Hansson
Families and Formal Networks by Shirley S. Travis Clinical Interventions
with Later Life Families by Sara Honn Qualls Bibliography Index