Handbook Of Aging And Mental Health: An Integrative Approach (the Springer Series In Adult Development And Aging)

Front Matter....Pages i-xix Introduction....Pages 1-12 Front Matter....Pages 13-14 Declarative and Differential Aspects of Subjective Well-Being and Its Implications for Mental Health in Later Life....Pages 15-43 Control....Pages 45-67 Resilience in Adulthood and Later Life....Pages 69-96 Front Matter....Pages 97-99 Toward a Developmentally Informed Theory of Mental Disorder in Older Adults....Pages 101-120 Conservation of Resources, Stress, and Aging....Pages 121-134 War Trauma and the Aged....Pages 135-152 Toward a Temporal—Spatial Model of Cumulative Life Stress....Pages 153-178 Front Matter....Pages 179-181 The Double Voice of the Third Age....Pages 183-196 Epistemology, Expectation, and Aging....Pages 197-216 An Image of Aging and the Concept of Aintegration....Pages 217-250 Front Matter....Pages 251-253 Psychoanalysis, the Life Story, and Aging....Pages 255-280 The Psychoimmune System in Later Life....Pages 281-295 Uses of the Past in Adult Psychological Health....Pages 297-318 Front Matter....Pages 319-322 Perspectives on the Family and Stress in Late Life....Pages 323-340 A Frame of Reference for Guiding Research Regarding the Relationship between Adult Attachment and Mental Health in Aging Families....Pages 341-353 Multigenerational Families and Mental Illness in Late Life....Pages 355-381 Cross-Cultural Perspective on Attitudes toward Family Responsibility and Well-Being in Later Years....Pages 383-412 Front Matter....Pages 413-415 The Significance of Memory Complaints in Later Life....Pages 417-434 Age-Related Cognitive Decline and the Dementia Threshold....Pages 435-448 Front Matter....Pages 413-415 Education and Dementia....Pages 449-458 Front Matter....Pages 459-461 Depression as a Pivotal Component in Secondary Aging....Pages 463-482 The Variability of Depression in Old Age....Pages 483-495 Aging and Behavioral Medicine....Pages 497-510 Epilogue....Pages 511-519 Back Matter....Pages 521-539 This comprehensive resource responds to a growing need for theory and multidisciplinary integrative research in adult and gerontological health. Handbook of Aging and Mental Healthbrings together, for the first time, diverse strategies and methodologies as well as theoretical formulations involving psychodynamic, behavioral, psychosocial, and biological systems as they relate to aging and health. Forward-thinking in his approach, Lomranz provides the mental health, adult developmental, and geriatric professions with a single reference source that covers theory construction, empirical research, treatment, and multidisciplinary program development