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| About the Author/Editor | |
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| Preface | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Note to Students | |
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| A Life Course Perspective On Aging | |
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| Age Identification | |
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| The Stages of Life | |
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| The Life Course and Aging | |
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| Life Transitions | |
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| Theories of Aging | |
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| Modernization Theory | |
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| Disengagement Theory | |
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| Activity Theory | |
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| Influences on the Life Course | |
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| Social Class and Life History | |
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| Social Institutions and Policies | |
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| Aging in the 21st Century | |
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| Time and the Life Course | |
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| The Moral Economy of the Life Course | |
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| The Biology of Aging | |
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| The New Science of Longevity | |
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| Mechanisms of Physical Aging | |
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| Wear and Tear | |
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| Free Radicals | |
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| The Immune System | |
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| Aging and Psychological Functioning | |
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| Self-concept and Social Relationships | |
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| Social Roles | |
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| Cognitive Functioning | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Toward a New Map of Life | |
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| Does Old Age Have Meaning? | |
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| The Meaning of Age | |
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| Leisure Activities in Later Life | |
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| Changing Leisure Participation Patterns | |
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| Explaining Patterns of Leisure | |
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| Religion and Spirituality | |
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| Spiritual Practice and Religious Participation Over the Life Course | |
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| Spiritual Belief, Religious Participation, and Well-Being | |
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| Spirituality and the Search for Meaning | |
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| Social Gerontology and the Meaning of Age | |
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| The Meaning of Aging in the 21st Century | |
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| Activity or Reflection? | |
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| Focus on Practice: Reminiscence and Life Review | |
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| Readings | |
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| The Coming of Age | |
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| Vital Involvement in Old Age | |
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| Successful Aging | |
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| The Measure of My Days | |
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| Why Do Our Bodies Age? | |
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| The Process of Biological Aging | |
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| Biological Theories of Aging | |
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| Wear-and-Tear Theory | |
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| Autoimmune Theory | |
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| Aging-Clock Theory | |
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| Cross-Linkage Theory | |
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| Free Radicals | |
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| Cellular Theory | |
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| Is Aging Inevitable? | |
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| Ways to Prolong the Life Span | |
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| Environmental Approach | |
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| Genetic Approach | |
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| Compression or Prolongation of Morbidity? | |
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| Focus on Practice: Health Promotion | |
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| Readings | |
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| Why Do We Live As Long As We Do? | |
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| Vitality and Aging: Implications of the Rectangular Curve | |
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| We Will Be Able to Live to 1,000 | |
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| Don't Fall for the Cult of Immortality | |
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| The Compression of Morbidity Hypothesis: A Review of Research and Prospects for the Furure | |
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| Health Trends in the Elderly Population: Getting Better and Getting Worse | |
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| Focus on the Future: "I Dated a Cyborg!" | |
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| Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate | |
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| Does Intellectual Functioning Change With Age? | |
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| Elements of Cognitive Functioning | |
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| The Classic Aging Pattern | |
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| Measures of Intelligence in Later Life | |
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| Studies of Age and Cognitive Function | |
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| Memory and Aging | |
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| Correlates of Cognitive Stability | |
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| Mature Cognition | |
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| Focus on Practice: Older-Adult Education | |
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| Readings | |
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| Age and Achievement | |
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| Age and Achievement: A Critique | |
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| Growing Old or Living Long: Take Your Pick | |
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| The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain | |
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| Aging | |
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| Focus on the Future: Late-life Learning in the Information Society | |
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| Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate | |
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| Aging, Health Care, and Society | |
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| The Challenge of Longevity | |
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| The Case of the Struldbruggs | |
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| Normal Aging | |
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| Longevity and Disease | |
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| Epidemiology of Aging | |
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| Major Diseases in Old Age | |
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| Responses to the Geriatric Diseases | |
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| Economics of Health Care | |
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| Reimbursement Systems | |
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| Prospects for the Future | |
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| Long-term Care | |
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| Housing for Older Adults | |
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| Chronic Care in Old Age | |
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| Functional Assessment | |
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| The Continuum of Care | |
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| Paying for Long-term Care: An American Dilemma | |
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| Self-Determined Death | |
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| Late-Life Suicide | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Should We Ration Health Care for Older People? | |
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| Precedents for Health Care Rationing | |
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| The Justification for Age-Based Rationing | |
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| Rationing as a Cost-Savings Plan | |
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| The Impetus for Rationing | |
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| Cost Versus Age | |
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| Alternative Approaches to Rationing | |
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| Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide | |
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| The Debate Over Age-Based Rationing | |
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| Focus on Practice: Managed Care | |
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| Readings | |
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| Why We Must Set Limits | |
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| Pricing Life: Why It's Time for Health Care Rationing | |
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| The Pied Piper Returns for the Old Folks | |
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| Letting Individuals Decide | |
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| Aim Not Just for Longer Life, but Expanded "Health Span" | |
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| Focus on the Future: Scenarios for Rationing: Fiction or Forecast? | |
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| Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate | |
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| Should Families Provide for Their Own? | |
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| Aging and the American Family | |
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| Abandonment or Independence? | |
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| Family Responsibility | |
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| Medicaid and Long-Term Care | |
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| Financing Long-Term Care | |
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| Medicaid Planning | |
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| Focus on Practice: Long-Term Care Insurance | |
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| Readings | |
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| Medicaid and Long-Term Care | |
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| Shame of the Rich: Making Themselves Poor | |
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| The Fallacy of Impoverishment | |
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| The Case Against Paying Family Caregivers: Ethical and Practical Issues | |
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| For Love and Money: Paying Family Caregivers | |
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| Focus on the Future: Genetic Screening for Alzheimer's Disease? | |
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| Questions to Ponder | |
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| Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate | |
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| Should Older People Be Protected From Bad Choices? | |
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| The Vulnerabilities of Older People | |
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| Interfering When People Make Bad Choices | |
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| Elder Abuse and Neglect | |
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| Perceptions of Quality of Life | |
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| Sexuality in Later Life | |
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| Crime and Older Adults | |
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| Intervention in the Lives of Vulnerable Older People | |
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| Focus on Practice: Adult Protective Services | |
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| Readings | |
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| The Right to Freedom From Restraints | |
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| Ethical Dilemmas in Elder Abuse | |
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| A Legal Perspective on Elder Abuse | |
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| Elder Self-Neglect: A Blurred Concept | |
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| Focus on the Future: Inheritance in an Aging Society | |
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| Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate | |
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| Should Older People Have The Choice To End Their Lives? | |
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| Depression and Suicide | |
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| The "Right to Die" | |
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| Outlook on the Future | |
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| Focus on Practice: Advanced Directives | |
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| Readings | |
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| Why Do People Seek Physician-Assisted Death? | |
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| A Time to Die: The Place for Physican Assistance | |
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| Last Rights: Aunty's Story | |
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| Neither for Love or Money: Why Doctors Must Not Kill | |
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| Focus on the Future: Neighborhood Suicide Clinics? | |
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| Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate | |
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| Social And Economic Outlook for An Aging Society | |
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| The Varieties of Aging Experience | |
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| Social Class | |
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| Race and Ethnicity | |
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| Gender and Aging | |
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| Multiple Jeopardy | |
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| Economic Well-Being | |
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| The Economic Status of Older Americans | |
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| Sources of Retirement Income | |
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| Changing Financial Outlook | |
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| Public Policy on Aging | |
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| The Aging Network | |
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| Aging Interest Groups | |
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| Trends in Public Policy and Aging | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Should Age Or Need Be The Basis for Entitlement? | |
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| A Tale of Two Generations | |
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| Generational Equity | |
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| Poverty Among the Old | |
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| Poverty Among Children and Young People | |
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| The Dependency Ratio | |
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| Taxation and Generational Accounting | |
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| Power and Competition for Scarce Resources | |
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| The Least-Advantaged in the Older Population | |
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| Help for Those Most in Need | |
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| The Targeting Debate | |
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| Focus on Practice: Intergenerational Programs | |
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| Readings | |
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| Growing Older | |
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| Gray Dawn: Target Benefits on the Basis of Need | |
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| "Generational Equity" and the New Victim Blaming | |
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| The Generational Equity Debate | |
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| Focus on the Future: Walled Retirement Villages? | |
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| Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate | |
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| What Is The Future for Social Security? | |
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| Main Features of Social Security | |
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| Success-and Doubts | |
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| Pay as You Go | |
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| Social Security Trust Fund | |
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| Eligibility | |
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| Privatization | |
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| Women and Social Security | |
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| Debate Over Security | |
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| Focus on Practice: Investment Decisions For Retirement Income | |
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| Readings | |
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| How to Save Social Security: A Balanced Approach | |
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| The Necessity and Desirability of Social Security Reform | |
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| Social Security Reform and Benefit Adequacy | |
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| Social Security for Yesterday's Family? | |
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| Focus on the Future: Two Scenarios for the Future of Social Security | |
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| Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate | |
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| Is Retirement Obsolete? | |
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| History of Retirement | |
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| Origins of Late-Life Leisure | |
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| Changes in the American Economy | |
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| A New View of Retirement | |
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| Productive Aging | |
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| Debate Over Retirement Policy | |
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| Focus on Practice: Pre-retirement Planning | |
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| Readings | |
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| Achieving a Productive Aging Society | |
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| Prime Time | |
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| The Busy Ethic: Moral Continuity Between Work and Retirement | |
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| Moving Toward a Creative Retirement | |
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| Focus on the Future: The U.S. Wisdom Corps? | |
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| Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate | |
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| Aging Boomers: Boom Or Bust? | |
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| Who are the Boomers? | |
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| What is a Generation? | |
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| Social Constructions of the Boomer Phenomenon | |
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| Boomers in the Years Ahead | |
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| Focus on Practice: Marketing to Aging Boomers | |
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| Readings | |
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| Boomsday | |
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| No Country for Young Men | |
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| The Longevity Revolution: As Boomers Become Elders | |
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| The Long Baby Boom: An Optimistic Vision for a Graying Generation | |
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| Focus on the Future | |
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| Questions for Writing, Reflection, and Debate | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Appendices | |
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| How to Research a Term Paper in Gerontology | |
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| Internet Resources on Aging | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Glossary/Index | |