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Presenting current research in an innovative format, Harry Moody and Jennifer Sasser’s Aging: Concepts and Controversies encourages students to become involved and take an informed stand on the major aging issues that we face as a society. Using their extensive expertise, the authors provide a thorough explanation of the issues in the Concepts sections and current research in the Controversy sections, demonstrating the close links between concepts and controversies in these broad areas of aging: health care, socioeconomic trends, and the life course.
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Taking a life course perspective that sees aging as occurring beginning at birth, this textbook addresses specific controversies and questions related to the topic. It considers questions related to the life course, socioeconomic trends, and health care, including why aging occurs, whether intelligence and creativity decline with age, protecting older people from bad choices, assisted suicide, aging and entitlement, retirement, the baby boomer generation, and the new aging marketplace aimed at older consumers. This edition has new information on avoiding waste in health care delivery for the elderly; proposals for changing Social Security; current and emerging careers for those in gerontology; updated figures, graphics, information, and data; a new feature in each chapter comparing related issues in different countries; learning objectives; and an online appendix. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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