Overview
- The topic of resilience and aging is a major emerging field with few books at present
- The edited collection will include top researchers in the field.
- It will identify important research gaps, and provide conceptual models and innovative methods of filling those research gaps.
Part of the book series: Risk, Systems and Decisions (RSD)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
The spectrum of aging-related challenges and responses addressed in this book include: mental health; physical/functional healthproblems; multimorbidity; socio-economic deprivation; social isolation and loneliness; cultural dimensions of loneliness; housing/homelessness problems; and environmental disasters. This book presents cutting-edge science at the conceptual, methodological, empirical and practice levels applied to emerging resilience sub-fields in gerontology. It will also present potential areas of future research, policy and practice linked to these areas.During a period of the most rapid population aging in the US, Canada and many other nations, coupled with heightened global socio-political change, extending our knowledge of resilience will help society to make important adjustments to maximize health and wellness of older individuals. Supporting and enhancing resilience through technological, social and/or community-level advances in geroscience will help those facing adversity to thrive by harnessing, stretching, and leveraging a wide array of potential resources. The promotion of healthier older populations has far-reaching consequences for health care and social/community support systems, both in terms of public health including pandemic response, and the development and implementation of innovations in treatment and practice guidelines.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Theodore D. Cosco, PhD began volunteering at age 12 at a long-term care facility, beginning what would become a life-long passion for gerontology and the aging process. Using both qualitative and quantitative approaches, Dr. Cosco examines a range of factors that promote healthy aging and resilience in older adults, from digital interventions to physical activity. He is an Assistant Professorship in the Department of Gerontology, Simon Fraser University and is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford. Dr. Cosco is a Chartered Psychologist (British Psychological Society) trained in applied social research methods (MSc, Trinity College Dublin), and epidemiology (PhD, University of Cambridge). Recently, he received the Early Career Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association and European Health Psychology Society, as well as becoming the youngest recipient of the Canadian Association on Gerontology’s Recognition Award for Excellence in Longitudinal Research in Honour of Betty Havens.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Resilience and Aging
Book Subtitle: Emerging Science and Future Possibilities
Editors: Andrew V. Wister, Theodore D. Cosco
Series Title: Risk, Systems and Decisions
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57089-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57088-0Published: 05 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-57091-0Published: 06 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-57089-7Published: 04 January 2021
Series ISSN: 2626-6717
Series E-ISSN: 2626-6725
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 275
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 20 illustrations in colour
Topics: Aging, Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology, general, Sociology, general