Research Catalog

Title

Active aging : the contribution of psychology / Rocío Fernández-Ballesteros.

Author

Fernández Ballesteros, Rocío

Publication

Cambridge, MA ; Göttingen : Hogrefe, 2008.

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Details

Description

x, 193 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

• Aging well and continuing to be active are often regarded as the goals in life, from individual, family, community, and population perspectives. This implies good health and physical fitness, good cognitive and positive emotional-motivational functioning, and social participation and engagement.
• Increasing life expectancy by means of biomedical advances is not on its own enough, however. Research shows that an individual's psychological condition contributes to their quality of life and well-being in old age - and that behavioral and psychological interventions can also prevent illness, improve cognitive and physical fitness, and increase positive emotional functioning and social participation.
• This book shows how psychologists and psychological science as a whole can face the challenge of promoting optimal and active aging in a society that is growing ever older.

Alternative Title

Contribution of psychology

Subject

• Older people > Psychology
• Aging > Psychological aspects
• Older people > Health and hygiene
• Cognition in old age
• Aged > psychology
• Aging > psychology
• Health Services for the Aged

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Pt. I. Conceptual Issues -- 1. A New Paradigm in the Study of Aging -- 2. Population Aging: Facts and Projections -- 3. Working, Empirical, and Lay Definitions, and Theoretical Models -- Pt. II. Behavioral and Psychological Domains of Active Aging -- 4. Behavioral Health and Physical Fitness -- 5. Cognitive Functioning -- 6. Emotional and Motivational Functioning: Affect, Control, and Coping -- 7. Social Functioning and Social Participation -- Pt. III. Promoting Active Aging -- 8. Active Aging Promotion Programs.

ISBN

9780889373600 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 269432495
• SCSB-12366775

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library