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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      August 2012
      April 2011
      ISBN:
      9780511920974
      9780521113915
      9780521132008
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920974
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.66kg, 408 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 408 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Developmental Psychology, Psychology, Cognition
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    The demographic and social structure of most industrialized and developing countries are changing rapidly as infant mortality is reduced and population life span has increased in dramatic ways. In particular, the oldest old (85+) population has grown and will continue to grow. This segment of the population tends to suffer physical and cognitive decline, and little information is available to describe how their positive and negative distal experiences, habits and intervening proximal environmental influences impact their well-being, and how social and health policies can help meet the unique challenges they face. Understanding Well-Being in the Oldest Old is the outcome of a four-day workshop attended by U.S. and Israeli scientists and funded by the U.S.-Israel Bi-National Science Foundation to examine both novel and traditional paradigms that could extend our knowledge and understanding of the well-being of the oldest old.

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    '… advances our knowledge in a way that does justice to the central issues and the heterogeneity of the oldest-old.'

    Linda K. George Source: The Gerontologist

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