Overview
- Elucidates fundamental relation of aging with health and socioeconomic factors, incorporating theoretical perspectives
- Uniquely features the late middle-age and early old-age transitional periods and East-West comparisons
- Serves as a bridge for a smooth transition with caregiving in the context of the challenges posed by COVID-19
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- healthy aging and aging well
- gerontology
- older adults
- caregiving
- geriatric care
- quality of life
- longevity diversity
- medicalization of aging
- aging and spirituality
- elder health
- life course transitions
- retirement
- mental health and aging
- dementia
- aging and technology
- aging and death
- palliative care and hospice care
- COVID-19 pandemic
- SDG 3 good health and wellbeing
About this book
Although there is no consensus yet on an all-encompassing theory of aging, this book centers on various theories related to aging processes in an effort to advance discussion on different aspects of aging. Various theoretical formulations, such as person-centered, Hinduism, biopsychosocial, and positive psychology, guided the author to address the topics covered in this volume.
- Aging and Physicians
- Aging and Retirement
- Aging, Caregiving, and COVID-19
- Aging and Diversity
- Aging and Longevity
- Aging, DiseasePrevention, and Technology
- Aging and Spirituality
Through the chapters, the author builds an understanding of the fundamental relation of aging with various health and socioeconomic factors, and also emphasizes a person-centered, holistic approach that values personal autonomy, choice, comfort, dignity, and purposeful living to support aging well.
Rethinking the Aging Transition: Psychological, Health, and Social Principles to Guide Aging Well has academic value from a multicultural perspective that would be of benefit to graduate and undergraduate students in gerontology and other disciplines that study aging and older adult populations. With the main aim of raising awareness, this book is an important resource for a diverse group of populations globally, including clinical and non-clinical caregivers, other health(care) professionals, and policy-makers.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Kallol Kumar Bhattacharyya, MBBS, MA, PhD (Candidate) is a physician gerontologist with a general interest in providing older adults with more holistic health care that maximizes their quality of life. He worked as a family physician in India for nearly two decades. As a mid-life career changer, he completed his master's degree in Gerontology from Georgia State University, USA. Dr. Bhattacharyya is currently researching dementia at the School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida (Tampa), USA, where he is a doctoral candidate and undergraduate instructor. He expects to complete his PhD in Spring 2022. His research interests include mindfulness activities to improve the quality of life of persons with dementia, improvement of health policy for older adults, longevity, and healthy aging. Dr. Bhattacharyya is particularly focused on some alternative therapeutic interventions for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia. He is also working on the individualized careprovided in institutional settings, especially nursing homes, and is interested in investigating how residents’ satisfaction levels and subsequent complaints (if any) help identify flaws in the care delivery system.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rethinking the Aging Transition
Book Subtitle: Psychological, Health, and Social Principles to Guide Aging Well
Authors: Kallol Kumar Bhattacharyya
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88870-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88869-5Published: 13 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-88872-5Published: 13 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-88870-1Published: 12 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 175
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Geriatrics/Gerontology, Demography, Public Health, Geriatric Care