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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 | |