The Many Faces of Health, Competence and Well-Being in Old Age

Hans-Werner Wahl

ISBN 10: 1402041373 / ISBN 13: 9781402041372

Edité par Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Jan 2006, 2006

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Neuware -Hans-Werner Wahl, Hermann Brenner, Heidrun Mollenkopf, Dietrich Rothenbacher and Christoph Rott Ageing research has been identi ed as a prototypical eld of inquiry deserving the full exploitation of single discipline approaches and interdisciplinary synergies amongst these single perspectives. Although this is a generally accepted insight, there still is a strong need to provide models of how this global and most fundamental challenge can be dealt with. It seems in any case necessary to narrow down the wide scope of ageing research issues to sets of key constructs most promising in terms of interdisciplinary cross-fertilisation. Againstthis,themajoraimofthebookistoprovideacomprehensive treatment of one well-selected set of key issues of recent ageing research, i. e. health, competence and well-being. In addition, the book¿s ambition is to identify priorities for future ageing research and to further new avenues for interdisciplinary approaches and social policy applications. The substance of the book is based on an international conference which took place on June 18 and 19, 2004 in Heidelberg, Germany. Framed within the array of health, competence and well-being perspectives in ageing research, the idea of the conf- ence was to provide an integrated presentation of ndings generated in the German Centre for Research on Ageing at the University of Heidelberg (Deutsches Zentrum f¿ ur Alternsforschung, DZFA). The centre¿s three departments, i. e.Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 280 pp. Englisch.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Many Faces of Health, Competence and Well-Being in Old Age
• Éditeur: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Jan 2006
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1402041373
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781402041372
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 241 L x 160 H x 20 P (en millimètres) 241 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 20 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 588 grammes

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he main aim of the book is to provide an interdisciplinary treatment of a set of key issues of current ageing research, i.e., health, competence, and well-being. These key issues are addressed based on three converging research streams: social-ecological research, which assumes that major processes and outcomes of ageing such as day-to-day competence are shaped by social and physical-spatial environments; geropsychology research, which is driven by a life-span developmental conception of ageing; and epidemiology, which offers most fundamental disease, function and prevention-related data. Each of the three major research directions are outlined by a short introduction, followed by three chapters treating in an empirical manner most recent key research questions. All chapters are then also discussed by renowned ageing experts.