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New Thoughts on Old Age

Editors:

  1. Robert Kastenbaum

    1. Cushing Hospital, Framingham, USA
      Clark University, Worcester, USA

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Theoretical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. New thoughts on the theory of disengagement

      • M. Elaine Cumming
      Pages 3-18

    4. Geriatric behavioral prosthetics

      • Ogden R. Lindsley
      Pages 41-60

    5. Is old age the end of development?

      • Robert Kastenbaum
      Pages 61-71

  3. Some Characteristics of Long-Lived People

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Social correlates of longevity

      • Charles L. Rose
      Pages 75-91

    3. Longevity and life patterns

      • Robert Kastenbaum
      Pages 92-98

    4. Behavioral changes of aging chronic psychotics

      • Otto F. Ehrentheil
      Pages 99-115

  4. Clinical Explorations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. The reluctant therapist

      • Robert Kastenbaum
      Pages 139-145

    3. Group therapy with the very old

      • Eugenia S. Shere
      Pages 146-160

    4. Speech therapy with geriatric aphasia patients

      • Margaret Wallace
      Pages 161-178

    6. The nurse and the elderly patient

      • Sally O’Neill
      Pages 186-190
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Cushing Hospital, Framingham, USA

    Robert Kastenbaum

  • Clark University, Worcester, USA

    Robert Kastenbaum

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: New Thoughts on Old Age

  • Editors: Robert Kastenbaum

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-38534-0

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1964

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-37719-2Published: 01 January 1971

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-38534-0Published: 11 December 2013

  • Edition Number: 3

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 333

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Geriatrics/Gerontology, Psychology, general

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