Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

New Thoughts on Old Age

  • Book
  • © 1964

Overview

Editors:
  1. Robert Kastenbaum

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

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 39.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Theoretical Perspectives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
      Download chapter PDF

    2. New thoughts on the theory of disengagement

      • M. Elaine Cumming
      Pages 3-18

    3. Prolegomena to a psychoanalytic theory of aging and death

      • Philip E. Slater
      Pages 19-40

    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
      Download chapter PDF

    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

    5. What happens to old psychologists? A preliminary report

      • Ruth Aisenberg
      Pages 116-135

  4. Clinical Explorations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
      Download chapter PDF

    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

    5. Depression in the aged: The importance of external factors

      • Sidney Levin
      Pages 179-185

    6. The nurse and the elderly patient

      • Sally O’Neill
      Pages 186-190

    7. Effects of wine on the interpersonal behavior of geriatric patients: An exploratory study

      • Robert Kastenbaum, Philip E. Slater
      Pages 191-204

    8. Social services for the aged: A reconsideration

      • Isabel Banay
      Pages 205-212

    9. Aspects of geriatric care and treatment: Moral, amoral, and immoral

      • J. Sanbourne Bockoven
      Pages 213-225
Back to top

Keywords

Editors and Affiliations

  • Cushing Hospital, Framingham, USA

    Robert Kastenbaum

  • Clark University, Worcester, USA

    Robert Kastenbaum

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

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation