This updated edition presents the latest research available on aging individuals, populations, and the dynamic culmination of the life course, providing a comprehensive synthesis and review of the latest research findings in the social sciences of aging that is of particular interest to scientists and researchers in a broad array of specialties

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• About the Editors
• List of Contributors
• I THEORY AND METHODS
• 1. Aging and the Social Sciences: Progress and Prospects
• 2. Trajectory Models for Aging Research
• II SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES
• 3. Biodemography: Adding Biological Insight into Social, Economic, and Psychological Models of Population and Individual Health Change with Age
• 4. Late-Life Disability Trends and Trajectories
• 5. Early Life Origins of Adult Health and Aging
• 6. Racial and Ethnic Inequalities in Health
• 7. Immigration, Aging, and the Life Course
• 8. Gender, Time Use, and Aging
• 9. Social Networks in Later Life
• III SOCIAL FACTORS AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
• 10. Stability, Change, and Complexity in Later-Life Families
• 11. The Influence of Military Service on Aging
• 12. Religion, Health, and Aging
• 13. Evolving Patterns of Work and Retirement
• 14. Productive Engagement in Later Life
• 15. Aging, Neighborhoods, and the Built Environment
• 16. Abusive Relationships in Late Life
• 17. The Impact of Disasters: Implications for the Well-Being of Older Adults
• 18. End-of-Life Planning and Health Care
• IV AGING AND SOCIETY
• 19. Organization and Financing of Health Care
• 20. Innovations in Long-Term Care
• Politics and Policies of Aging in the United States
• The Future of Retirement Security in Comparative Perspective
• Health Inequalities Among Older Adults in Developed Countries: Reconciling Theories and Policy Approaches