Regression, Stress, and Readjustment in Aging: A Structured, Bio-Psychosocial Perspective on Coping and Professional Support - Couverture rigide

Ben-Sira, Zeev

 
9780275940782: Regression, Stress, and Readjustment in Aging: A Structured, Bio-Psychosocial Perspective on Coping and Professional Support
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0275940780 ISBN 13 : 9780275940782
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 1991

Synopsis

This volume develops a comprehensive multivariate paradigm of the process of aging, delineating the factors underlying age-related degeneration. The model is aimed at understanding the conditions under which age sets into motion a process of degeneration. Accumulating evidence suggests that age per se is not the decisive factor in age-related regression--leading scholars to distinguish between chronological and functional age. The process of degeneration is evidently due to the combined impact of deleterious biophysiological, psychological, and socio-cultural factors and the interaction among them.

Based on this evidence, Zeev Ben-Sira shows how age-related degeneration can be viewed as a product of a damaging cycle of reciprocally activating stimuli from the person's internal and external environment. Consequently, aging is conceptualized as a process of bio-psychosocial regression. The paradigm outlined in this volume identifies factors that are likely to accelerate or decelerate the process of aging.

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À propos de l?auteur

ZEEV BEN-SIRA is Professor and Director of the School of Social Work at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has served as a Central Committee member of the Israeli Sociological Association, and is the author of Stress, Disease, and Primary Medical Care (1986) and Politics and Primary Medical Care: Dehumanization and Overutilization (1988), as well as numerous articles in journals and books.

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
1991
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0275940780
ISBN 13 
9780275940782
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
184
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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