Academic Articles & Research Papers

Gerontology: An Interdisciplinary Perspective

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 ...

International Association of Gerontology and Rapid Progress of Gerontology

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....

The Gerontological Imagination: Social Influences on the Development of Gerontology, 1945-Present

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...

Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics

Handbook of Social Gerontology.

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...

Feminist Gerontology and Old Men

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...

Geographical Gerontology: The constitution of a discipline

Effect Size Guidelines, Sample Size Calculations, and Statistical Power in Gerontology

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...

Is Gerontology Interdisciplinary?

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...

Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology

This volume is a collection of reports dealing with geriatrics and gerontology. The first section provides an introduction to the common medical and non-medical problems of aging. The second section concentrates on one of the most devastati...

Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research

Current Gerontology and Geriatrics Research publishes research based on molecular, cellular, organismal aspects of gerontological research and in diagnosis, treatment, evaluation and educational aspects of geriatrics research....

Gerontology

With millions of men and women growing older, baffled by changes in themselves and in the world around them, the country has a definite need for not only large scale provisions for their care but also for a specific and individual service f...

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics Get access Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, C. Eisdorfer (Ed.). Springer Publishing Company, New York, 1987, 324 pp., $32.95 (hardcover). Journal of Gerontology, Volume 42, Issue 6, No...

Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics

This volume is planned as the first in a series of annual reviews designed "to encompass the broad spectrum of concerns in aging, from empirical and theoretical literature to clinical studies and services for the elderly" and is expected to...

Gerontology - anthropology in gerontological research

Topics on gerontology are grossly under-represented in the German anthropological field of research. Nevertheless, new establishments of distinct research centres in the gerontological area indicate a trend towards innovative and interdisci...

Brocklehurst's Textbook of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology

The Challenge of Cultural Gerontology

Over the last decade, Cultural Gerontology has emerged as one of the most vibrant elements of writing about age (Twigg, J., & Martin, W. (Eds.) (2015). The Routledge handbook of cultural gerontology. London: Routledge). Reflecting the wider...

Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology

Later years are changing under the impact of demographic, social and cultural shifts. No longer confined to the sphere of social welfare, they are now studied within a wider cultural framework that encompasses new experiences and new modes ...

Qualitative Gerontology

This commentary examines four articles in qualitative and humanistic gerontology, with the purpose of explicating the goals of such work, the criteria that make them exemplary, and the contribution they make to an enriched understanding of ...

Self, Society, and the "New Gerontology"

The "new gerontology," built on the concept of successful aging, sets forth the preconditions for and the end product of the process of aging successfully. Focused on health and active participation in life, it vests largely within individu...