Aging in Good Health: Multidisciplinary Perspective (Springer Series Societal Impact on Aging)

Most older adults lead productive, happy lives, without significant le vels of disability or illness. In this text, the editors integrate co ncepts of healthy aging with larger salient issues of aging from the p sychological, social and biomedical fields. They provide a useful sect ion on issues surrounding service provision with this growing populati on. Among the topics discussed are stressful life events and late lif e adaptation, family dynamics and caregiving, retirement, medication u ses geriatric rehabilitation, patient-provider communication and much more. This a useful text for teaching in this interdisciplinary field .