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Summary
Author Biography
Table of Contents
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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