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1. Caregiving Systems

   Informal and Formal Helpers

   Edited by Steven H. Zarit, Leonard I. Pearlin, K. Warner Schaie

   Series: Social Structure and Aging Series

   Caregiving has emerged as a critical issue in the second half of the life cycle. With the growth of the older population, there have been dramatic increases in the number of people needing care and assistance. The responsibility for care typically falls on families at a time when they have limited...

   Published February 28th 1993 by Psychology Press
2. Aging, Health Behaviors, and Health Outcomes

   Edited by K. Warner Schaie, Dan Blazer, James S. House, James A. House

   Series: Social Structure and Aging Series

   This volume is the fourth in a series designed to facilitate inter-disciplinary communication between scientists concerned with the description of societal phenomena and those investigating adult development. As such, it contains a compilation of papers presented at an annual conference held at the...

   Published November 30th 1991 by Psychology Press
3. Self Directedness

   Cause and Effects Throughout the Life Course

   Edited by Judith Rodin, Carmi Schooler, K. Warner Schaie

   Series: Social Structure and Aging Series

   This book, the third in a series on the life course, has significance in today's world of research, professional practice, and public policy because it symbolizes the gradual reemergence of power in the social sciences. Focusing on "self-directedness and efficacy" over the life course, this text...

   Published July 31st 1990 by Psychology Press
4. Age Structuring in Comparative Perspective

   Edited by David I. Kertzer, K. Warner Schaie

   Series: Social Structure and Aging Series

   This volume studies age as a basis for social organization by uniting research from the social science disciplines while implementing both cross-cultural and historical perspectives. The contributors, a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, advance our understanding of age structuring...

   Published February 28th 1989 by Psychology Press
5. Social Structure and Aging

   Psychological Processes

   Edited by K. Warner Schaie, Carmi Schooler

   Series: Social Structure and Aging Series

   This volume presents a systematic examination of the impact of social structures on individual behaviors and on their development in adulthood and old age. These papers and responses attempt to improve the reciprocal relationship between changes in social macro- and micro-structures and the process...

   Published October 31st 1988 by Psychology Press