Editors:
- Covers qualitative and quantitative studies from broad range of disciplines
- Covers all important layers on which healthy and active aging are affected and can be influenced?
- Addresses health, cognition, and quality of life in older people
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: International Perspectives on Aging (Int. Perspect. Aging, volume 10)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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What Constitutes Health, Cognition, and Well-Being in Old Age from a Biomedical Perspective?
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What Constitutes Health and Cognition in Old Age from a Life-Course Perspective?
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Promoting Health, Cognition, and Well-Being in Old Age Through Care and Interventions
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How to Ensure Healthy and Active Aging Through Policy and Practice
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About this book
In recent years, the aim of research on aging has shifted from prolonging life to fostering healthy and cognitively robust old age. In order to improve the quality of life of older people, we need to better understand cognitive aging as well as bodily aging.
Health and Cognition in Old Age assembles the cream of research across varied medical, mental health, and social disciplines, and demonstrates how this knowledge can lead to improved outcomes for older people. The first half of this expert volume discusses biomedical and life course factors in aging, particularly as they affect cognition and well-being in later life. From there, effective solutions are the focus: interventions and care programs to improve mental functioning and general quality of life, and current policy and practice ideas in promoting healthy, active, and cognitively robust aging. Together, these diverse chapters offer a multi-faceted approach to understanding and modifying what was formerly the inevitable course of growing old. A sampling of the coverage:
- How the aging process affects the immune system.
- Occupational gerontology – work-related determinants of old age health and functioning.
- Social, behavioral, and contextual influences on cognitive function and decline.
- Lifestyle factors in the prevention of dementia.
- Understanding long-term care outcomes: conventional and behavioral economics.
- Social capital, mental well-being, and loneliness in older people.
For gerontologists, sociologists, social workers, health psychologists, and others working to improve older people’s lives, Health and Cognition in Old Age brings expertise, versatility, and confidence to the table.
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education, University of Luxembourg, Walferdange, Luxembourg
Anja K. Leist
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Gerontology Research Center, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
Jenni Kulmala
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Mental Health Promotion Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, THL, Vaasa, Finland
Fredrica Nyqvist
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health and Cognition in Old Age
Book Subtitle: From Biomedical and Life Course Factors to Policy and Practice
Editors: Anja K. Leist, Jenni Kulmala, Fredrica Nyqvist
Series Title: International Perspectives on Aging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06650-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-06649-3Published: 28 July 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34615-1Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-06650-9Published: 14 July 2014
Series ISSN: 2197-5841
Series E-ISSN: 2197-585X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 329
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aging, Health Psychology, Geriatrics/Gerontology, Quality of Life Research