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| Preface | |
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| What is Ageing? | |
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| Definitions of ageing | |
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| Prevalence of ageing - the greying population | |
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| Prevalence of ageing - variations | |
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| The cost of living longer | |
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| Causes of biological ageing | |
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| The ageing body | |
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| Neuronal changes in later life | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| Measuring Intellectual Change in Later Life | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Measuring age changes in intelligence | |
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| Fluid and crystallised intelligence | |
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| Variability in intellectual change | |
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| Wisdom | |
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| Health, intelligence and the terminal drop model | |
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| Disuse theory | |
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| Reaction times and the general slowing hypothesis | |
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| Brain volume and intellectual skills | |
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| The frontal lobe hypothesis | |
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| Sensory changes and intelligence | |
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| Intelligence with everything? | |
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| Attentional deficits in ageing | |
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| Conceptual organisation | |
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| Creativity in later life | |
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| Piagetian conservation | |
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| Summary - the bumblebee flies | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| Ageing and Memory | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Ageing and short-term memory | |
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| Ageing and long-term memory | |
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| Remote memory | |
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| Eyewitness testimony | |
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| Text recall | |
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| Semantic memory | |
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| Episodic memory | |
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| Implicit memory | |
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| Autobiographical memory and ageing | |
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| Prospective memory | |
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| Metamemory and ageing | |
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| Summary and overview - how does ageing affect memory? | |
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| Another reality check | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| Ageing and Language | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The role of reading in older people's lifestyles | |
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| Physical constraints | |
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| General cognitive constraints | |
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| Word recognition | |
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| Spelling | |
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| Tip of the tongue states | |
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| Pronunciation | |
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| Semantic processing | |
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| Syntactic processing | |
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| Story comprehension | |
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| Neural compensation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| Ageing, Personality and Lifestyle | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Trait models of personality | |
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| Psychoanalytic and type models of personality | |
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| Dependency | |
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| Attitudes to ageing | |
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| Cross-cultural differences | |
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| Retirement | |
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| Bereavement | |
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| Well-being | |
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| Psychosocial factors and health | |
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| Marriage | |
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| Sexuality and ageing | |
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| Disengagement and activity theories | |
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| The role of the family | |
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| Religion and ageing | |
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| Summary | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| Mental Health in Later Life | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Mild cognitive impairment | |
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| Dementia | |
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| Dementia - a summary | |
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| Learning disabilities | |
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| Depression | |
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| Anxiety | |
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| Substance abuse | |
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| Personality disorder | |
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| Schizophrenia | |
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| Overview | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| Problems in Measuring the Psychological Status of Older People | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Confounding variables and the search for 'pure' ageing | |
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| The relevance of findings to everyday life | |
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| Unwitting ageism | |
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| Death, Dying and Bereavement | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Death awareness | |
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| K�bler-Ross's five stages of dying model | |
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| Palliative care | |
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| Death | |
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| Bereavement and cultural differences | |
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| Widowhood | |
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| Suicide | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Suggested further reading | |
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| What is the Future of Ageing? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What will constitute being 'old'? | |
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| Older people and the technological society | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Basic Anatomy of the Nervous System | |
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| The neuron | |
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| Anatomy of the nervous system | |
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| Fluid and Crystallised Intelligence | |
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| Basic Psycholinguistic Concepts | |
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| The Later Career of Elisabeth K�bler-Ross | |
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| Glossary of Technical Terms | |
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| References | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| Author Index | |