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Title Encyclopedia of gerontology and population aging / Danan Gu, Matthew E. Dupre, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2021
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Description 1 online resource (cxxiii, 5507 pages)
Contents Topic groups: Ageism -- Aging and diseases -- Aging and financial well-being -- Aging and housing -- Aging and nutrition -- Aging and public policy -- Aging in a global context -- Aging in the arts, media, and culture -- Aging medicine and geriatrics -- Aging, migration, and geographical -- Behavioral gerontology -- Business of aging -- Cardiovascular diseases -- Caregiving in changing family and social contexts -- Cellular aging -- Climate and older people -- Cognitive aging -- Culture and longevity -- Demographic transition -- Disability and functional limitation -- Disability and pension -- Employment and retirement -- End-of-life issues -- Environmental health -- Family demography -- Fraility -- Gender issues -- Genetic of aging -- Geriatric psychiatry -- Gerontechnology -- Gerontology-general -- Health and retirement studies series -- Health informatics -- Healthcare and healthcare financing -- Historical gerontology -- Immune system and aging -- Informal/family caregiving -- Intergenerational relations -- Lifestyle and aging -- Longevity -- Long-term care -- Methods in gerontology -- Mortality -- Neurosciences of aging -- Oncology and treatment -- Psychogerontology -- Psychological well-being -- Quality of life -- Resilience -- Science, technology, and society -- Social capital and social relations -- Social partipation -- Social security and pension systems -- Social services -- Sociogerontology -- Special subpopulations -- Successful aging -- Surveys for aging studies
Summary This encyclopedia brings together a comprehensive collection of work highlighting established research and emerging science in all relevant disciplines in gerontology and population aging. It covers the breadth of the field, gives readers access to all major sub-fields, and illustrates their interconnectedness with other disciplines. With more than 1300 cross-disciplinary contributorsincluding anthropologists, biologists, economists, psychiatrists, public policy experts, sociologists, and othersthe encyclopedia delves deep into key areas of gerontology and population aging such as ageism, biodemography, disablement, longevity, long-term care, and much more. Paying careful attention to empirical research and literature from around the globe, the encyclopedia is of interest to a wide audience that includes researchers, teachers and students, policy makers, (non)governmental agencies, public health practitioners, business planners, and many other individuals and organizations
Notes Acute Cerebral Insufficiency
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Subject Gerontology -- Encyclopedias
Older people -- Encyclopedias
Population aging -- Encyclopedias
Gerontology
Older people
Population aging
Genre/Form encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
Form Electronic book
Author Gu, Danan, editor.
Dupre, Matthew E., 1972- editor.
ISBN 9783030220099
3030220095
9783030220105
3030220109