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| Preface | |
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| Correlation Guide | |
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| Topic Guide | |
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| Internet References | |
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| The Phenomenon of Aging | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| Elderly Americans | |
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| You Can Stop "Normal" Aging | |
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| Living Longer: Diet and Exercise | |
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| Secrets to Longevity | |
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| Will You Live to Be 100? | |
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| Faulty Fountains of Youth | |
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| The Quality of Later Life | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| Failure to Thrive: Interventions to Improve Quality of Life in the Older Adult | |
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| Overweight and Mortality among Baby Boomers-Now We’re Getting Personal | |
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| Lifetime Achievements, Harvard Health Letter, July 2006 | |
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| We Can Control How We Age | |
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| Societal Attitudes toward Old Age | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| Society Fears the Aging Process | |
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| A Healthy Mind, a Longer Life | |
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| Research: Oldest Americans Happiest | |
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| The Under-Reported Impact of Age Discrimination and Its Threat to Business Vitality | |
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| Problems and Potentials of Aging | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| Alzheimer’s-The Case for Prevention | |
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| Brain Cancer: Could Adult Stem Cells Be the Cause-and the Cure? | |
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| Trust and Betrayal in the Golden Years | |
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| The Extent and Frequency of Abuse in the Lives of Older Women and Their Relationship with Health Outcomes | |
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| Retirement: American Dream or Dilemma? | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| Retire Right, Consumer Reports, February 2008 | |
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| Money for Life | |
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| Keep Pace with Older Workers | |
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| Color Me Confident | |
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| Work/Retirement Choices and Lifestyle Patterns of Older Americans | |
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| The Experience of Dying | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| Development of Hospice and Palliative Care in the United States | |
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| The Grieving Process | |
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| End-of-Life Preferences: A Theory-Driven Inventory | |
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| Mind Frames towards Dying and Factors Motivating Their Adoption by Terminally Ill Elders | |
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| Living Environment in Later Life | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| Oh, Lord, Don’t Put Me in a Nursing Home | |
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| Where to Live as We Age | |
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| Finding a Good Home | |
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| Declaration of Independents: Home Is Where You Want to Live Forever. Here’s How | |
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| Social Policies, Programs, and Services for Older Americans | |
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| Unit Overview | |
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| Dignified Retirement: Lessons from Abroad | |
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| Social Security’s 70th Anniversary: Surviving 20 Years of Reform | |
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| The Corporate Beneficiaries of the Medicare Drug Benefit | |
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| Coverage for All | |
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| Riding into the Sunset: The Geezer Threat | |
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| The New Face of Health Care | |
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| As Good as It Gets | |
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| Population Aging, Entitlement Growth, and the Economy, Prepared | |
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| Test-Your-Knowledge Form | |
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| Article Rating Form | |