Women and Positive Aging

• Author : Lisa Hollis-Sawyer,Amanda Dykema-Engblade
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2016-03-03
• ISBN : 9780128004579

Women and Positive Aging: An International Perspective presents the noted research in the fields of psychology, gerontology, and gender studies, reflecting the increasingly popular and pervasive positive aging issues of women in today’s society from different cohorts, backgrounds, and life situations. Each section describes a bridge between the theoretical aspects and practical applications of the theory that is consistent with the scientist-practitioner training model in psychology, including case studies and associated intervention strategies with older women in each chapter.

• Author : David Lereah
• Publisher : Linden Publishing
• Release Date : 2020-06-02
• ISBN : 9781610353724

Discover the extraordinary power of Positive Aging to prepare you for the greatest challenge of your life—growing old. Americans now live longer than ever—a full 30 years longer than they did in the early 20th century. Our forever-young culture and personal expectations have not yet adapted to that change. These extra years can be a burden or an adventure, depending on your mental attitude. You can't fight the inevitable changes to your aging body, but author David Lereah says

• Author : Lisa Hollis-Sawyer,Amanda Dykema-Engblade
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release Date : 2016-04-01
• ISBN : 0124201369

Women and Positive Aging: An International Perspective presents the noted research in the fields of psychology, gerontology, and gender studies, reflecting the increasingly popular and pervasive positive aging issues of women in today's society from different cohorts, backgrounds, and life situations. Each section describes a bridge between the theoretical aspects and practical applications of the theory that is consistent with the scientist-practitioner training model in psychology, including case studies and associated intervention strategies with older women in each chapter. In

• Author : Karen Kaigler-Walker
• Publisher : Conari Press
• Release Date : 2008-01-01
• ISBN : 9781609257934

In Positive Aging, KaiglerWalker explores and illuminates the quest women must take to free themselves from this cultural trap. Using myths, fairy tales, and a series of practical exercises, she peels back the layers of misunderstanding that distort the true nature of female beauty. Identifying the problem as essentially one of the spirit, she guides women through the myriad erroneous assumptions and preconceptions about the primal role of female beauty and aging.

• Author : John Wallis Rowe,Robert Louis Kahn
• Publisher : Random House Large Print Publishing
• Release Date : 1998
• ISBN : 0375701796

The president of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital and a professor of public health present the findings of a MacArthur Foundation Study, showing healthy aging is dependent on diet, exercise, and self-esteem rather than on genes. (Health & Medicine).

• Author : Evelyn R Rosenthal
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2014-04-23
• ISBN : 9781317993063

Here is a unique text that examines the lives of middle-aged and old women. Women, Aging and Ageism, in response to the lack of literature that focuses on aging women, presents timely and definitive research that illustrates the implications of ageism and sexism. This landmark volume challenges powerful myths and dangerous stereotypes and identifies the damaging restrictions that society forces upon aging women. In extending feminist research to middle and old age, the chapters taken together comprise a critique of

• Author : Varda Muhlbauer,Joan C. Chrisler,Florence L. Denmark
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2014-10-20
• ISBN : 9783319093062

These are paradoxical times to be an older woman. As individual older women take the stage as role models in the arts and the public sphere, female elders as a group are marginalized as dependent, declining and unimportant. Women and Aging surveys the evolving sociopolitical landscape in an era still struggling with gender and age discrimination. This insightful volume recasts familiar concepts such as social roles, appearance, health, sexuality and transition through the related lenses of empowerment/restraint and quality

• Author : Amia Lieblich
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release Date : 2014-07-16
• ISBN : 9780190213824

In Narratives of Positive Aging, Amia Lieblich presents a qualitative study that explores the life narratives of elderly men and women who engage in practices of "positive aging." They belong to a spontaneous community that assembles daily, early in the morning, on a beach near Tel-Aviv, Israel. At the seaside, the elders practice various outdoor sports, and converse over coffee at the local café. Based on their narratives, procured by individual open-ended interviews, and the author's participant observation, the book

• Author : Irina Catrinel Crăciun
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2019-05-10
• ISBN : 9783030142551

This book explores positive aging through the lens of precarity, aiming to ground positive aging theories in current social contexts. In recent years, research on aging has been branded by growing disagreements between supporters of the successful aging model and critical gerontologists who highlight the widening inequalities, disadvantages and precarity that characterize old age. This book comes to fill a gap in knowledge by offering an alternative view on positive aging, informed by precarity and its impact on projections concerning

• Author : Vivien Brown
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2017
• ISBN : 1988025591

• Author : Carol D. Goodheart
• Publisher : OUP USA
• Release Date : 2006
• ISBN : 9780195162035

"The Handbook of Girls' and Women's Psychological Health presents a contemporary view of psychological health for girls and women that integrates psychology, physiology, society, and culture. A range of 50 chapters integrates current research, scholarship, and practice on the risks and protective factors that influence women's health and well-being across the life span. Within and biopsychosocial framework, the Handbook explores mind and body, risks and resilience, research and interventions, cultural diversity, and public policy." "This Handbook underscores the importance of gender

• Author : Paul B. Baltes,Margret M. Baltes
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release Date : 1993-05-28
• ISBN : 052143582X

More and more people live into old age. This demographic revolution underscores the fact that old age is the last uncharted and unattended phase of the life cycle.

• Author : J. Brooks Bouson
• Publisher : Springer
• Release Date : 2016-08-19
• ISBN : 9783319317113

This book brings together the research findings of contemporary feminist age studies scholars, shame theorists, and feminist gerontologists in order to unfurl the affective dynamics of gendered ageism. In her analysis of what she calls “embodied shame,” J. Brooks Bouson describes older women’s shame about the visible signs of aging and the health and appearance of their bodies as they undergo the normal processes of bodily aging. Examining both fictional and nonfiction works by contemporary North American and British

• Author : Betsy M. Sprouse, PhD,Sarah H. Gueldner, DSN, RN, FAAN, FGSA, FNAP, FAGHE,Leonard W. Poon, PhD, DPhil
• Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
• Release Date : 2003-05-06
• ISBN : 082611976X

For many people growing old means facing one or more chronic diseases. Successful Aging and Adaptation with Chronic Diseases reviews, coalesces, and expands what we know about how older adults successfully experience the aging process and how they feel about and live with chronic illnesses. Questions considered include: How do older adults approach and deal with everyday-life when affected by multiple health problems? What kind of impact do they feel diseases have on their successful aging? How do existent models

• Author : Sarah Lamb
• Publisher : Rutgers University Press
• Release Date : 2017-05-22
• ISBN : 9780813585369

In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an inspirational vision of successful aging—striving through medical technique and individual effort to eradicate the declines, vulnerabilities, and dependencies previously commonly associated with old age. On the face of it, this bold new vision of successful, healthy, and active aging is highly appealing. But it also rests on a deep cultural discomfort with aging and being old. The contributors to Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession explore how the successful