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Health and Cognition in Old Age

From Biomedical and Life Course Factors to Policy and Practice

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Editors:
  1. Anja K. Leist

    1. Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education, University of Luxembourg, Walferdange, Luxembourg

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  2. Jenni Kulmala

    1. Gerontology Research Center, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

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  3. Fredrica Nyqvist

    1. Mental Health Promotion Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, THL, Vaasa, Finland

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Perspectives on Health and Cognition in Old Age: Why We Need Multidisciplinary Investigations

    • Anja K. Leist, Jenni Kulmala, Fredrica Nyqvist
    Pages 1-7

  3. What Constitutes Health, Cognition, and Well-Being in Old Age from a Biomedical Perspective?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Vascular Aging: Revealing the Role and Clinical Perspectives of the Urokinase System

      • Yulia Kiyan, Bianca Fuhrman, Hermann Haller, Inna Dumler
      Pages 11-24

    3. Impact of Metabolic Control on Cognitive Function and Health-Related Quality of Life in Older Diabetics

      • Anna Marie Herghelegiu, Gabriel Ioan Prada
      Pages 25-40

    4. Understanding the Mechanisms of Immune System Aging: Immune System Cell Development and Antibody Repertoires

      • Gitit Lavy Shahaf, Helena Hazanov, Dana Averbuch, Sylvie Amu, Alex Ademokun, Yu-Chang Wu et al.
      Pages 41-53

    5. How the Aging Process Affects Our Immune System: Mechanisms, Consequences, and Perspectives for Intervention

      • Dietmar Herndler-Brandstetter
      Pages 55-69

    6. A Conflict of Interpretations in Gerontology

      • Hans-Jörg Ehni
      Pages 71-86

  4. What Constitutes Health and Cognition in Old Age from a Life-Course Perspective?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87
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    2. Occupational Gerontology: Work-Related Determinants of Old Age Health and Functioning

      • Jenni Kulmala, Mikaela B. von Bonsdorff
      Pages 89-104

    3. Social, Behavioral, and Contextual Influences on Cognitive Function and Decline over the Life Course

      • Anja K. Leist, Johan P. Mackenbach
      Pages 105-122

    4. Obesity, Cognitive Ageing, and Dementia: The Usefulness of Longitudinal Studies to Understand the Obesity Paradox

      • Anna Dahl Aslan
      Pages 123-140

    5. Models for Predicting Risk of Dementia: Predictive Accuracy and Model Complexity

      • Blossom Christa Maree Stephan
      Pages 141-159

    6. Lifestyle Factors in the Prevention of Dementia: A Life Course Perspective

      • Chengxuan Qiu
      Pages 161-175

  6. How to Ensure Healthy and Active Aging Through Policy and Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 245-245
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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

  • Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education, University of Luxembourg, Walferdange, Luxembourg

    Anja K. Leist

  • Gerontology Research Center, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Jenni Kulmala

  • Mental Health Promotion Unit, National Institute for Health and Welfare, THL, Vaasa, Finland

    Fredrica Nyqvist

About the editors

Anja K. Leist is a psychologist specializing in life-span development and social epidemiology. After finishing her PhD studies in psychology at the University of Trier, Germany, she has been working as postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, and at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Her current research interests involve life-course influences on cognitive function and health in older age, and technology and aging. Jenni Kulmala has a PhD in gerontology and public health from the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She is currently working at the Gerontology Research Center (GEREC) and department of health sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland. She also collaborates with University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio and Aging Research Center (ARC), Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. Her research interests involve sensory and cognitive functions, psychosocial symptoms and life-course epidemiology. Fredrica Nyqvist has a PhD in social policy from Åbo Akademi University in Finland. She is now working as a senior researcher at the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Finland. Within the FLARE fellowship she has established research collaboration with Umeå University, Sweden and Northumbria University, UK. She has extensively investigated the application of social capital concept. Her current research explores inequalities in social capital, loneliness and well-being in an aging population and the role of social capital as a positive resource in older people’s mental health.

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

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