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Toledo JO, Moraes CF, Souza VC, Tonet-Furioso AC et al. • Clinical Interventions in Aging
(2015)
Juliana O Toledo,1 Clayton F Moraes,2,3 Vinícius C Souza,2 Audrey C Tonet-Furioso,2 Luís CC Afonso,4 Cláudio Córdova,3 Otávio T Nóbrega1,2 1Graduate Program in Health Sciences, 2Graduate Program in...
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Virginia Boccardi, Lucia Paolacci, Patrizia Mecocci • Geriatric Care
(2018)
Dementia incidence is growing at an impressive rate worldwide, mostly affecting old age subjects. Looking and considering the disease as the same in younger adult does not seem the successful way to find a proper solution regarding preventi...
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DOI: 10.4081/gc.2018.7756
• Choice Reviews Online
(1996)
Introduction Two Precursors Keywords OLD AGE BECOMES A 'PROBLEM' WORTH INVESTIGATING SCIENTIFICALLY 1. Surveying the Frontiers of Aging 2. Setting Boundaries for Disciplined Discoveries 3. Establishing Outposts for Multidisciplinary Researc...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.34-1240
PAUL F. D. HIGGS, Chris J. Gilleard • Wiley eBooks
(2017)
Gerontology is the study of aging and old age. This remit is extremely broad, encompassing a large range of topics, disciplines, and methods, and requires a good understanding of the biological, clinical, economic, psychological, and social...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118430873.est0149
Barbara M. Resnick • Springer eBooks
(2020)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39903-0_196
Jon A. Hendricks, W. Andrew Achenbaum • The American Historical Review
(1997)
Jon Hendricks; W. Andrew Achenbaum. Crossing Frontiers: Gerontology Emerges as a Science. New York: Cambridge University Press. 1995. Pp. xiii, 278. Cloth $59.9...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/102.5.1454
• Oxford University Press eBooks
(1999)
Abstract This title presents an overview of gerontology appropriate for beginning, graduate and advanced undergraduate students. The text includes seminal chapters on theory, methodology, physiological processes, health, culture, dying and ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780195115468.001.0001
Vladimir Korenchevsky • BMJ
(1952)
Although this paper considers rapid progress of gerontology and the International Gerontological Association, the scheme presented can be applied to any international biological or medical association and congress....
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.1.4754.375
PMC: 2022540
Carroll L. Estes, Elizabeth A. Binney, Richard Culbertson • The International Journal of Aging and Human Development
(1992)
This article presents a framework for the analysis of the development of gerontology since 1945. Three distinct historical periods and several forces that have shaped the field are examined. These forces reside in the political, economic, s...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2190/ywl3-wx80-um2u-yeun
Adriaan Ph Visser • Patient Education and Counseling
(1989)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0738-3991(89)90073-6
Roger L. Black • Military Medicine
(1979)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/144.10.690
R. D. Bramwell • Educational Gerontology
(1985)
This paper discusses four well‐attested criteria by which a given “subject area” might be judged to be or not to be an “academic discipline.” What can be said of “gerontological studies” under each of these criteria? In what ways might “ger...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/0380127850110403
W. F. Ossenfort • Archives of Internal Medicine
(1965)
Social gerontology is concerned with the phenomena of aging which are related to man as a member of the social group. This handbook is addressed to research workers, teachers, and graduate students as a text and as a guide. Over 50 colleges...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1965.03870050158041
Toni Calasanti • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
(2004)
This article outlines feminist gerontology and shows how its focus on power relations lends insight into the lives of those people disadvantaged by them as well as the people privileged by social inequalities. To illustrate the latter, I di...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/59.6.s305
Joyce Colling • Journal of Professional Nursing
(1992)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/8755-7223(92)90074-9
Gavin J. Andrews, Malcolm P. Cutchin, Kevin McCracken, David R. Phillips et al. • Social Science & Medicine
(2007)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.02.047
Ronald H. Sherron, D. Barry Lumsden • Taylor & Francis eBooks
(2013)
Education and the life cycle - a philosophy of aging, H.R.Moody instrumental and expressive education - from needs to goals assessment for educational planning, C.A.Londoner Religion and ageing and the role of education, J.C.Glass Jr instru...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315803166
Christopher R. Brydges • Innovation in Aging
(2019)
Abstract Background and Objectives Researchers typically use Cohen’s guidelines of Pearson’s r = .10, .30, and .50, and Cohen’s d = 0.20, 0.50, and 0.80 to interpret observed effect sizes as small, medium, or large, respectively. However, t...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz036
PMC: 6736231
Marvin Formosa • Springer eBooks
(2019)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_411-1
Kenneth F. Ferraro • The Journals of Gerontology Series B
(2007)
UNIVERSITIES and colleges often espouse the value of interdisciplinary study, and gerontology is frequently cited as an exemplar of an interdisciplinary field of inquiry. It could be argued that this characterization has been good for geron...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/62.1.s2