Handbook of Minority Aging.
Title:
Handbook of Minority Aging.
Author:
Whitfield, Keith.
ISBN:
9780826109644
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (589 pages)
Contents:
About the Editors -- About the Associate Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Part I: Psychology of Minority Aging -- 1. Introduction: Psychology-Rising as a Discipline to Meet the Challenges of an Aging, Increasingly Diverse Society -- 2. Minority Aging Before Birth and Beyond: Life Span and Intergenerational Adaptation Through Positive Resources -- 3. Social Relationships and Health Among Minority Older Adults -- 4. Religion and Spirituality Among Older African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics -- 5. Stress, Discrimination, and Coping in Late Life -- 6. Correlates of Cognitive Aging in Racial/Ethnic Minorities -- Part II: Public Health/Biology of Minority Aging -- 7. Introduction: Minorities, Aging, and Health -- 8. Race/Ethnicity and Disability Among Older Americans -- 9. Race/Ethnicity, Mortality, and Longevity -- 10. What Does Knowing About Genetics Contribute to Understanding the Health of Minority Elders? -- 11. Minority Elders: Nutrition and Dietary Interventions -- 12. Two Approaches to Developing Health Interventions for Ethnic Minority Elders: From Science to Practice and From Practice to Science -- 13. Structural and Cultural Issues in Long-Term Services and Supports for Minority Populations -- 14. Does Health Care Quality Contribute to Disparities? An Examination of Aging and Minority Status Issues in America -- Part III: Social Work and Minority Aging -- 15. Introduction: Social Work and Minority Aging -- 16. End-of-Life Care Among Older Minorities -- 17. Aging in Place -- 18. Racial/Ethnic Minority Older Adults in Nursing Homes: Need for Culturally Competent Care -- 19. The Complexities of Caregiving for Minority Older Adults: Rewards and Challenges -- 20. Older Adults of Color With Developmental Disabilities and Serious Mental Illness: Experiences and Service Patterns.
21. The Productive Engagement of Older African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans -- 22. The Older Americans Act and the Nexus of Aging and Diversity -- Part IV: Sociology of Minority Aging -- 23. Introduction: Sociology of Minority Aging -- 24. The Demography of Minority Aging -- 25. Social Networks and Minority Elders -- 26. Informal Social Support Networks of African American, Latino, Asian American, and Native American Older Adults -- 27. The Ethnography of Ethnic Minority Families and Aging: Familism and Beyond -- 28. Intersections Among Gender, Race, and Ethnicity: Implications for Health -- 29. Understanding Age at Onset and Self-Care Management to Explain Racial and Ethnic Cardiovascular Disease Disparities in Middle- and Older-Age Adults -- 30. Age in Place and Place in Age: Advancing the Inquiry on Neighborhoods and Minority Older Adults -- 31. Work and Retirement -- 32. Public Policy, the Welfare State, and Older Minority Americans -- 33. Medicare and Health Care Utilization -- Index.
Abstract:
This text provides up-to-date, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive information about aging among diverse racial and ethnic populations in the United States. It is the only book to focus on paramount public health issues as they relate to older minority Americans, and addresses social, behavioral, and biological concerns for this population. The text distills the most important advances in the science of minority aging and incorporates the evidence of scholars in gerontology, anthropology, psychology, public health, sociology, social work, biology, medicine, and nursing. Additionally, the book incorporates the work of both established and emerging scholars to provide the broadest possible knowledge base on the needs of and concerns for this rapidly growing population. Chapters focus on subject areas that are recognized as being critical in understanding the well being of minority elders. These include sociology (Medicare, SES, work and retirement, social networks, context/neighborhood, ethnography, gender, demographics), psychology (cognition, stress, mental health, personality, sexuality, religion, neuroscience, discrimination), medicine/nursing/public health (mortality and morbidity, disability, health disparities, long-term care, genetics, dietary issues, health interventions, physical functioning), social work (caregiving, housing, social services, end-of-life care), and many other topics. The book focuses on the needs of four major ethnic groups: Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic/Latino, African American, and Native American. Key Features:.; Provides current, comprehensive information about minority aging through a multidisciplinary lens; Integrates information from scholars in gerontology, anthropology, psychology, public health, sociology, social work, biology, medicine, and nursing; Emphasizes the principal public health issues concerning
minority elders; Offers "one-stop shopping" regarding the development of a substantial knowledge base about minority aging; Includes recent progressive research pertaining to the social, cultural, psychological and health needs of elderly minority adults in the US.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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