The Psychology of Ageing

by Stuart-Hamilton, Ian

Edition: 5th

ISBN13: 9781849052450

ISBN10: 184905245X

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 2012-05-15

Publisher(s): Jessica Kingsley Pub

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Summary

This well-established and accessible text has been completely revised in this expanded fifth edition. Each chapter has been updated, often extensively, to reflect current thinking, and an important new chapter on death, dying and bereavement has been added. Providing a comprehensive overview of the psychological processes of ageing, the text examines what constitutes older age, and presents the latest theory and research in various domains, including ageing and memory; ageing and language; ageing, personality and lifestyle; and mental illness and ageing. Consideration is given to the problems inherent in measuring the psychological status of older people, and the author looks to the future to answer the question 'what will constitute 'being old'?' This new edition is essential reading for all those working or training to work with older people, and a key text for students.

Author Biography

Ian Stuart-Hamilton is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Glamorgan, Wales. He has over 30 years' research experience in a wide variety of psychological techniques and settings. The psychology of Ageing is now translated into 16 languages, and was awarded a British Medical Association Book of the Year award in the Geriatric Medicine section in 2008.

Preface	p. 11
What is Ageing?	p. 15
Definitions of ageing	p. 15
Prevalence of ageing - the greying population	p. 19
Prevalence of ageing - variations	p. 23
The cost of living longer	p. 30
Causes of biological ageing	p. 33
The ageing body	p. 38
Neuronal changes in later life	p. 46
Suggested further reading	p. 48
Measuring Intellectual Change in Later Life	p. 49
Introduction	p. 49
Measuring age changes in intelligence	p. 50
Fluid and crystallised intelligence	p. 56
Variability in intellectual change	p. 61
Wisdom	p. 64
Health, intelligence and the terminal drop model	p. 66
Disuse theory	p. 69
Reaction times and the general slowing hypothesis	p. 74
Brain volume and intellectual skills	p. 83
The frontal lobe hypothesis	p. 85
Sensory changes and intelligence	p. 86
Intelligence with everything?	p. 88
Attentional deficits in ageing	p. 91
Conceptual organisation	p. 93
Creativity in later life	p. 96
Piagetian conservation	p. 98
Summary - the bumblebee flies	p. 100
Suggested further reading	p. 103
Ageing and Memory	p. 105
Introduction	p. 105
Ageing and short-term memory	p. 108
Ageing and long-term memory	p. 113
Remote memory	p. 113
Eyewitness testimony	p. 115
Text recall	p. 116
Semantic memory	p. 116
Episodic memory	p. 118
Implicit memory	p. 120
Autobiographical memory and ageing	p. 121
Prospective memory	p. 125
Metamemory and ageing	p. 129
Summary and overview - how does ageing affect memory?	p. 132
Another reality check	p. 135
Suggested further reading	p. 135
Ageing and Language	p. 136
Introduction	p. 136
The role of reading in older people's lifestyles	p. 137
Physical constraints	p. 139
General cognitive constraints	p. 142
Word recognition	p. 145
Spelling	p. 148
Tip of the tongue states	p. 149
Pronunciation	p. 149
Semantic processing	p. 150
Syntactic processing	p. 152
Story comprehension	p. 156
Neural compensation	p. 163
Summary	p. 164
Suggested further reading	p. 165
Ageing, Personality and Lifestyle	p. 166
Introduction	p. 166
Trait models of personality	p. 166
Psychoanalytic and type models of personality	p. 173
Dependency	p. 179
Attitudes to ageing	p. 182
Cross-cultural differences	p. 187
Retirement	p. 192
Bereavement	p. 197
Well-being	p. 197
Psychosocial factors and health	p. 201
Marriage	p. 205
Sexuality and ageing	p. 207
Disengagement and activity theories	p. 209
The role of the family	p. 211
Religion and ageing	p. 214
Summary	p. 215
Suggested further reading	p. 216
Mental Health in Later Life	p. 217
Introduction	p. 217
Mild cognitive impairment	p. 217
Dementia	p. 219
Dementia - a summary	p. 245
Learning disabilities	p. 246
Depression	p. 248
Anxiety	p. 249
Substance abuse	p. 251
Personality disorder	p. 256
Schizophrenia	p. 256
Overview	p. 257
Suggested further reading	p. 258
Problems in Measuring the Psychological Status of Older People	p. 259
Introduction	p. 259
Confounding variables and the search for 'pure' ageing	p. 260
The relevance of findings to everyday life	p. 263
Unwitting ageism	p. 268
Death, Dying and Bereavement	p. 270
Introduction	p. 270
Death awareness	p. 270
Kübler-Ross's five stages of dying model	p. 274
Palliative care	p. 276
Death	p. 281
Bereavement and cultural differences	p. 284
Widowhood	p. 288
Suicide	p. 290
Conclusions	p. 292
Suggested further reading	p. 293
What is the Future of Ageing?	p. 294
Introduction	p. 294
What will constitute being 'old'?	p. 294
Older people and the technological society	p. 296
Conclusion	p. 301
Basic Anatomy of the Nervous System	p. 303
The neuron	p. 303
Anatomy of the nervous system	p. 304
Fluid and Crystallised Intelligence	p. 306
Basic Psycholinguistic Concepts	p. 308
The Later Career of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross	p. 311
Glossary of Technical Terms	p. 313
References	p. 351
Subject Index	p. 444
Author Index	p. 448
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