New Frontiers in Resilient Aging (eBook, PDF)

Life-Strengths and Well-Being in Late Life
Redaktion: Fry, Prem S.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A typically pessimistic view of aging is that it leads to a steady decline in physical and mental abilities. In this volume leading gerontologists and geriatric researchers explore the immense potential of older adults to overcome the challenges of old age and pursue active lives with renewed vitality. The contributors believe that resilience capacities diminishing with old age is a misconception and argue that individuals may successfully capitalize on their existing resources, skills and cognitive processes in order to achieve new learning, continuing growth, and enhanced life-satisfaction. By identifying useful psychological resources such as social connectedness, personal engagement and commitment, openness to new experiences, social support and sustained cognitive activity, the authors present a balanced picture of resilient aging. Older adults, while coping with adversity and losses, can be helped to maintain a complementary focus on psychological strengths, positive emotions, and regenerative capacities to achieve continued growth and healthy longevity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511903885
• Artikelnr.: 38206977

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword John W. Rowe; Introduction; 1. Sources of human life strengths,
resilience and health Prem S. Fry and Dominique L. Debats; 2. Growth isn't
just for the young: growth narratives, eudaimonic resilience, and the aging
self Jack J. Bauer and Sun W. Park; 3. Physical resilience and aging:
correcting the Tithonus error and the crème brulée error Aubrey D. N. J. de
Grey; 4. You can teach an old dog new tricks: harnessing neuroplasticity
after brain injury in older adults Gitendra Uswatte and Edward Taub; 5.
Resilience in the face of cognitive aging: experience, adaptation, and
compensation Christopher Hertzog and Daniela S. Jopp; 6. Why do some people
thrive while others succumb to disease and stagnation? Personality, social
relations, and resilience Margaret L. Kern and Howard S. Friedman; 7.
Psychosocial resources as predictors of resilience and healthy longevity of
older widows Prem S. Fry and Dominique L. Debats; 8. Resilience and
longevity: expert survivorship of centenarians Peter Martin, Maurice
MacDonald, Jennifer Margrett and Leonard W. Poon; 9. The socioemotional
basis of resilience in later life Anthony D. Ong and Cindy S. Bergeman; 10.
Emotional resilience and beyond: a synthesis of findings from lifespan
psychology and psychopathology Eva-Marie Kessler and Ursula M. Staudinger;
11. Risk, resilience, and life-course fit: older couples' encores following
job loss Phyllis Moen, Stephen Sweet and Rachelle Hill; 12. Resilience in
mobility in the context of chronic disease and aging: cross-sectional and
prospective findings from the UAB study of aging Patricia S. Sawyer and
Richard M. Allman; 13. Positive aging: resilience and reconstruction
Kenneth J. Gergen and Mary Gergen.