Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- 1 Psychological Immunity and the Late Onset Disorders -- Comments -- 2 Conceptual and Empirical Advances in Understanding Aging Well Through Proactive Adaptation -- Comments -- 3 Continuities and Discontinuities in Very Late Life -- Comments -- 4 Life Course and Persistent Psychiatric Illness: Social Timing, Cohort, and Intervention -- Comments -- 5 Continuities and Discontinuities in Gender Identity -- Comments -- 6 A Non-Normative Old Age Contrast: Elderly Parents Caring for Offspring with Mental Retardation -- Comments -- 7 Perspective on Adult Life Crises -- Comments -- 8 In Search of Continuities and Discontinuities Across Time and Culture -- Comments -- 9 On-Time, Off-Time, Out of Time? Reflections on Continuity and Discontinuity from an Illness Process -- Comments -- 10 Continuities and Discontinuities in Sibling Relationships Across the Life Span -- Comments -- 11 Modified-Extended Families Over Time: Discontinuity in Parts, Continuity in Wholes -- Comments -- 12 Continuities and Discontinuities in Intergenerational Relationships Over Time -- Comments -- 13 Continuities and Discontinuities in Public Policy on Aging -- Comments -- 14 Public Support for Programs for Older Americans: Continuities Amidst Threats of Discontinuities -- Comments -- 15 Looking at Our Future Selves: Neugarten as Gerontology's Seer -- Comments -- 16 Profile of Bernice L. Neugarten -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.