New dynamics in old age : individual, environmental, and societal perspectives / edited by Hans-Werner Wahl, Clemens Tesch-Römer, Andreas Hoff
- Published
- Amityville, N.Y. : Baywood Pub., [2007]
- Copyright Date
- ©2007
- Physical Description
- viii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Wahl, Hans-Werner, 1954-, Tesch-Römer, Clemens, and Hoff, Andreas
- Series
- Contents
- On new person-environmental dynamics in old age: opportunities and constraints / Jon Hendricks -- Searching for the new dynamics in old age: a book opener / Hans-Werner Wahl, Clemens Tesch-Romer, and Andreas Hoff -- The social construction of age and the experience of aging in the late twentieth century / Christine L. Fry -- Changes in physical and mental function of older people: looking back and looking ahead / Kenneth G. Manton and XiLiang Gu -- New and persistent dynamics regarding the social environment -- Cohort differences in social relations among the elderly / Kristine J. Ajrouch, Hiroko Akiyama, and Toni C. Antonucci -- Family relations and aging: substantial changes in the middle of the last century? / Andreas Hoff and Clemens Tesch-Romer -- Elders as care receivers: autonomy in the context of frailty / Steven H. Zarit and Elizabeth R. Braungart -- New and persistent dynamics regarding the home environment -- The impact of housing on quality of life: does the home environment matter now and into the future? / Laura N. Gitlin -- Beyond the relocation trauma in old age: new trends in elders' residential decisions / Frank Oswald and Graham D. Rowles -- Aging in a difficult place: assessing the impact of urban deprivation on older people / Thomas Scharf, Chris Phillipson, and Allison Smith -- New and persistent dynamics regarding the outdoor environment -- Always on the go? : older people's mobility today and tomorrow, findings from three European countries / Heidrun Mollenkopf, Isto Ruoppila, and Fiorella Marcellini -- Does driving benefit quality of life among older drivers? / Karlene K. Ball, Virginia G. Wadley, David E. Vance, and Jerri D. Edwards -- The new leisure world of modern old age: new aging on the bright side of the street? / Franz Kolland -- New and persistent dynamics regarding the technology environment -- The potential influence of the Internet on the transition to older adulthood / Sara J. Czaja and Chin Chin Lee -- When will technology in the home improve quality of life for older adults? / Anne-Sophie Melenhorst, Wendy A. Rogers, and Arthur D. Fisk -- Technology and chronic conditions in later years: reasons for new hope / William C. Mann and Sumi Helal -- New and persistent dynamics regarding the societal environment -- New aging and new policy responses: reconstructing gerontology in a global age / Chris Phillipson -- The new politics of old age / Alan Walker -- Productivity in old age in labor and consumption markets: the German case / Gerhard Naegele, Vera Gerling, and Karin Scharfenorth -- New challenges -- Separating the local and the general in cross-cultural aging research / Svein Olav Daatland and Andreas Motel-Klingebiel -- Plasticity in old age: micro- and macro-perspectives on social contexts / Eva-Marie Kessler and Ursula M. Staudinger.
- Summary
- This book was nurtured by the belief that the new dynamics of today's and tomorrow's aging has not yet been treated well in the gerontology literature. Several questions drove the choice of substance for the book: What kind of new dynamics of aging deserves consideration? What kinds of theories and fields are at the core of treating such a new dynamics? And, what kind of empirical evidence should be considered? The master hypothesis on which the book is based maintains that the new dynamics of old age is best observed in a range of everyday aging contexts that have been undergoing major change since the second half of the 20th century. In particular, five areas of new and persistent dynamics are treated in depth: (1) the social environment, with a focus on cohort effects in social relations and the consideration of family relations and elders as care receivers; (2) the home environment, with emphasis on housing and quality of life, relocation, and urban aging issues; (3) the outdoor environment, with consideration of out-of-home activity patterns, car-driving behavior, and the leisure world of aging; (4) the technological environment, with treatments of the role of the Internet and the potential of technology for aging outcomes; and (5) the societal environment, with a focus on global aging, the new politics of old age, and older persons as market consumers. The book's main purpose is to provide the scholarly gerontology community with a comprehensive and critical discussion of these new trends related to old age. From p. 4 of cover.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0895033224 (cloth)
9780895033222 (cloth) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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