This Encyclopedia covers a broad range of issues, from biological and physiological changes in the body to changes in cognition, personality, and social roles to applied areas such as psychotherapy, long-term care, and end-of-life issues.

Table of Contents

• A
• Abstract Thinking
• Abuse and Neglect of Family Members
• Achievement
• Activity Theory
• Adaptability
• Adaptation to Loss
• Adaptive Testing in Aging Populations
• Adult Attachment Theory
• Adult Foster Care Homes
• Adult Protective Services
• Age and Scientific Creativity
• Ageism
• Aging in Place
• Aging Self
• Alcohol and Illicit Drug Use
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Animal-Assisted Therapy for Older Adults
• Anxiety in Later Life
• Arthritis
• Assisted Living
• Associative Deficit Hypothesis
• Attention
• Attentional Resources Theory
• Autobiographical Memory
• B
• Behavioral Management in Long-Term Care
• Bereavement/Widowhood
• Bipolar Disorder
• Body Image
• Bone
• Bridge Employment
• C
• Capacity Assessments
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Care Planning in Frailty
• Career Planning
• Career Theory
• Caregiver Stress and Coping
• Caregiving: Adults With Developmental Disabilities
• Caregiving: Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
• Centenarians
• Central Nervous System
• Change Point Models
• Chemical Senses
• Childless Older Adults
• Close/Romantic Relationships
• Cognitive Plasticity
• Cognitive Processes
• Cognitive Reserve
• Community Mental Health
• Comorbidity
• Compensation
• Complicated Grief
• Compression of Morbidity
• Computer-Assisted Telephone and Personal Interviews
• Continuing Care Retirement Communities
• Continuity Theory
• Control Beliefs Across Adulthood
• Coping With Cognitive Changes in Mild Cognitive Impairment
• Correlates of Wisdom
• Creativity
• Critical Gerontology
• Cross-cultural Studies of Personality Development
• Cross-lagged Panel Analysis
• Cross-sectional Designs
• Culture Change Movement in Nursing Homes/Person-Centered Care/Household Models
• Culture, Cognition, and Aging
• D
• Daily Diary Design
• Death Anxiety
• Death Ethos
• Death With Dignity Movement
• Defense Mechanisms
• Definition of Mental Disorder
• Delirium
• Depression
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Differential Aging of Cognition
• Differential Diagnosis
• Directed Forgetting
• Disablement
• Discourse Processing and Memory
• Dissociative Disorders
• Distant Caregiving
• Driving and Aging
• DSM-5
• Dual Mechanisms of Cognitive Control
• Dyadic Analysis
• Dynamical Systems Approaches
• E
• Ecological Momentary Assessment
• Effects of Coping on Psychological and Physical Health
• Ego Integrity
• Elder Abuse and Neglect
• Emerging Adulthood
• Emotional Labor
• Emotional Memory
• Emotions and Aging
• Employee–Organization Relationship
• Employment Law
• Endocrine System
• End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes and Assisted Living
• Ethics in Long-Term Care
• Ethics of Aging
• Everyday Problem Solving
• Exceptional Survivors
• Executive Functions
• Expertise
• Expressive Arts
• Extended Kin: Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins
• F
• Factor Analysis
• Falls
• Family Care Policies
• Family Interventions
• Fictive Kin
• Filial Responsibility
• Five-Factor Model of Personality
• Fluid–Crystallized Theory of Intelligence
• Focus Groups With Older Adults
• Friendships
• Frontal Lobe Dysfunction
• G
• Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Families
• Gender and Parent Care
• Gender and Physical Health in Later Life
• Gender Differences in Physical Health
• Gender-Related Issues in Psychopathology
• General Ecological Model
• General Slowing Hypothesis
• Generativity
• Genetic Studies of Genius and the Life Cycle Follow-Ups
• Geropsychology Guidelines
• Goal Adjustment Theory
• Grandparent–Grandchild Relations
• Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
• Grounded Theory Method
• Guardianship/Conservatorship
• H
• Hardiness
• Harmonization
• Healthcare and Health Insurance
• Hearing
• Hospice
• Human Resource Management Practices
• I
• Identity
• Immigrant and Refugee Elders
• Implicit Learning and Memory
• Information Processing Theory
• Inhibitory Deficit Hypothesis
• In-Law Relationships
• Institutionalization
• Intelligence, Crystallized
• Intelligence, Fluid
• Intelligence, General
• Interference
• Intergenerational and Family Ties of Baby Boomers
• Internet-Based Assessment
• Interview Methods (Structured, Semistructured, Unstructured)
• Intraindividual Variability
• Invariance
• Item and Source Memory
• Item Response Theory
• J
• Job Design and Redesign
• K
• Kidney
• L
• Labor Force Participation and Care Provision
• Language Comprehension
• Language Production
• Latent Class Analysis and Growth Mixture Models
• Latent Growth Modeling for Developmental Research
• Leadership
• Learning
• Learning and Cognitive Maturation
• Legal Intervention in Family Ties
• Lehman, Harvey C. (1889–1965)
• Life Cycles, Creative
• Life Regret and Sehnsucht
• Life Review and Life-Story Work
• Life Satisfaction
• Life Story
• Lifelong Learning
• Living Wills, Durable Power of Attorney, and Advance Directives
• Living-Apart-Together (LAT) Relationships
• Longevity, Biological
• Longevity, Social Determinants
• Longitudinal/Panel Designs
• Long-Lived Human Populations (Blue Zones)
• Long-Term Care Ombudsmen
• Long-Term Marriages
• Long-Term Memory
• M
• Major Nursing Home Policy
• Marital Happiness
• Marital Relationships and Quality
• Marital Trajectories
• Marital Transitions: Widowhood, Divorce, and Remarriage
• Meaning of Life
• Measurement Burst Design
• Medicaid
• Medicaid Managed Long-Term Care
• Medicare
• Memory
• Memory and Memory Theory
• Memory Schema
• Memory Training
• Memory Training and Mnemonics
• Mental and Cognitive Health Following Retirement
• Meta-Analysis
• Metamemory
• Mild Cognitive Impairment
• Mindfulness
• Missing Data/Imputation
• Mixed Anxiety and Depression
• Mixed Methods Approaches
• Model of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation
• Mortality Rate
• Motivation
• Multigenerational Differences
• Multigenerational Households
• Multilevel Modeling
• Multiple Pathway Model of Retirement
• N
• Narcissism
• Narrative Gerontology
• National Center for Creative Aging
• Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities
• Neuropsychological Assessment
• Nursing Home Deficiencies
• Nursing Homes
• O
• Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder
• Occupational Health
• Old-Age Style in Art and its Implications for Late-Life Changes
• Older Women and Intimate Partner Violence
• P
• Palliative Care
• Parent–Child Relations
• Parkinson's Disease
• Patient Self-Determination Act and do not Resuscitate
• Performance and Performance Feedback
• Personal Action Constructs
• Personality Assessment
• Personality Correlates of Spirituality
• Personality Disorders
• Person-Centered Dementia Care
• Person–Environment Fit
• Personnel Selection
• Person-Specific Analysis
• Phobias
• Physical and Chemical Restraints in Long-Term Care
• Physical Exercise and Activity
• Physical Health and Marital Status
• Physical Health and Social Class
• Physical Health of African Americans
• Physical Health of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
• Physical Health of Latinos
• Physician-Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia
• Polypharmacy
• Possible Selves
• Practice, Expertise, and Aging
• Prevention
• Problem Solving
• Processing Speed
• Protean Career Model
• Psychobiology of Stress
• Psychosocial Development
• Psychotherapy and Behavioral Health Interventions for Older Adults
• Pulmonary System
• Q
• Quality of Care in Nursing Homes
• Quantitative Genetic Analysis (Behavioral Genetics and GE)
• Quetelet, Adolphe (1796–1874)
• R
• Racial, Ethnic, and Cultural Diversity
• Recruitment and Retention
• Rehabilitation and Acute Care in Nursing Homes
• Relocation Adjustment in Older Adults
• Remaining Time
• Reminiscence
• Reproductive Health
• Resilience
• Resource-Based Dynamic Perspective
• Retest and Practice Effects
• Retirement
• Retirement Attitudes
• Retirement Incentive Programs
• Retirement Planning
• Retirement, Adjustment To
• Retirement, Cognitive Effects
• Retirement, Early Decisions
• Retirement, Leisure Activities in
• Retirement, Transition to
• Retirement, Workforce Aging And
• S
• Schizophrenia
• Seattle Longitudinal Study Findings
• Seattle Longitudinal Study Methods
• Second Careers
• Self-Transcendence/Gerotranscendence
• Sensorimotor–Cognitive Interactions
• Sexual Disorders and Aging
• Sexuality and Aging
• Sibling Ties
• Singlehood
• Skin
• Sleep Disturbance and Insomnia
• Smart Homes
• Social Convoy Model
• Social Security and Pension Systems
• Socioemotional Selectivity Theory/Future Time Perspective
• Special Care Units for Persons with Dementia
• Specialized Housing/Housing With Supportive Services/Elder Cohousing
• Spirituality, Cultural Factors, and Aging
• Spousal Support: Physical Health Conditions
• Stereotype Threat
• Stress
• Structural Equation Modeling
• Subjective Life Expectancy
• Subjective Well-Being
• Successful Aging
• Survival Analysis
• Swan-Song Phenomenon
• T
• Technology in Long-Term Care
• Terminal Change
• Terminal Decline
• Tobacco Use
• Training and Development
• Trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
• V
• Vascular Dementia
• Video-Game Training
• Vision in Mid and Late Life
• W
• Weak Ties/Consequential Strangers
• Wisdom, Berlin Model
• Work Ability
• Work Attitudes
• Work Motivation
• Work–Family Issues
• Workforce Planning
• Working Memory
• Workplace Age Discrimination