1st Edition
The Gerontological Prism Developing Interdisciplinary Bridges
"The Gerontological Prism" promotes disciplinary cooperation in aging research and practice. To some extent, each chapter explores a unified objective, that of generating a disciplinary-blind gerontology. The fundamental assumption throughout this book is that the aging individual and society can be enhanced by an understanding of the correlates of basic social, behavioral, demographic, economic, political, ethical, and biomedical processes involving aging. Each author touches on issues that have both social psychological, and practical policy significance. They aim toward sensitizing the reader to the possibilities of a properly informed interdisciplinary approach to gerontology.
Introduction
SECTION I: CORE DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 1 - Aging and Social Change: Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda Stephen J. Cutler
Chapter 2 - Psychology's Contributions to Gerontology Laura L. Carstensen, Jeremy Graff, and Frieder Lang
Chapter 3 - A Social Psychology of the Life Cycle: Interdisciplinary Social Policies, Perceptions, and Prospects Jeffrey Michael Clair, William C. Yoels, and David A. Karp
Chapter 4 - Clinical and Health Services Delivery Research Richard M. Allman, Patricia S. Baker, and Richard S. Maisiak
SECTION II: KEY SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
Chapter 5 - Diversity As a Catalyst for Change E. Percil Stanford and Gwendolyn E. Stanford
Chapter 6 - Intergenerational Relationships and Aging: Families, Cohorts, and Social Change
Vern Bengtson, Timothy Biblarz, Edward Clarke, Roseann Giarrusso, Robert Roberts, Judith Richlin-Klonsky, and Merril Silverstein
Chapter 7 - Interdisciplinary Health Care in the Twenty-First Century: Fantasy or Fundamental? Theresa J. K. Drinka
Chapter 8 - Organizing Chronic Care: The Value of Organization Theory to Gerontology William E. Aaronson, Connie J. Evashwick, and Richard M. Shewchuk
Chapter 9 - Nursing Homes and the Long-Term Care Market Michael A. Morrisey and
Fredric D. Wolinsky
SECTION III: PATIENT CARE CONCERNS
Chapter 10 - Perspectives on Aging: Progress and Priorities for Age-Related Cancers Harvey Jay Cohen
Chapter 11 - Caring for Alzheimer's Disease Patients: Issues of Verbal Communication and Social Interaction Louis Burgio, Rebecca Allen-Burge, Alan Stevens, Linda Davis, and Daniel Marson
Chapter 12 - The Geriatric Medical Encounter Patricia S. Baker, Jeffrey Michael Clair, William C. Yoels, and Richard M. Allman
Chapter 13 - Treatment of Urinary Incontinence: Current Status and Future Directions Kathryn L. Burgio, Patricia S. Goode, R. Edward Varner, L. Keith Lloyd, Donald A. Urban, and Mary G. Umlauf
Chapter 14 - Mobility Impairment and Its Consequences in the Elderly Cynthia Owsley, Richard M. Allman, Marilyn Gossman, Sherron Kell, Richard V. Sims, and Patricia S. Baker
Chapter 15 - Closing Comments: Barriers To and Potential For an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda in Aging Richard M. Allman and Jeffrey M. Clair
Contributors
Index
Biography
Jeffrey Michael Clair, Richard Allman
