Successful Aging and Adaptation with Chronic Diseases

by Betsy M. Sprouse PhD (Editor), Sarah H. Gueldner DSN, RN, FAAN, FGSA, FNAP, FAGHE (Editor), Leonard W. Poon PhD, DPhil (Editor)

Overview

For many people growing old means facing one or more chronic diseases. Successful Aging and Adaptation with Chronic Diseases reviews, coalesces, and expands what we know about how older adults successfully experience the aging process and how they feel about and live with chronic illnesses.

Questions considered include: How do older adults approach and deal with everyday-life when affected by multiple health problems? What kind of impact do they feel diseases have on their successful aging? How do existent models and theories of coping address these issues?

Presenting research funded by the AARP Andrus Foundation, this book brings together contributions by originators in the field, including Robert Kahn and Ann Whall. This volume is sure to be a seminal reference point for future research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826119766
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	05/06/2003
Series:	Springer Series on Lifestyles and Issues in Aging
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

Betsy M. Sprouse, PhD, is a Program Manager at the AARP Andrus Foundation in Washington, DC, where she directs the funding programs for gerontological research and the education and training of students in aging.

Sarah Hall Gueldner, DSN, RN, FAAN, FGSA, FNAP, FAGHE, is Professor of Nursing and fellow in the Institute of Primary and Preventative Health Care at Binghamton University, in Binghamton, New York, and the Arline H. and Curtis F. Garvin Visiting Professor of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University (2006-2007).

Leonard W. Poon, PhD, DPhil, is professor of public health in the Department of Health Policy and Management, professor of psychology in the Department of Life Span Developmental Psychology, chair of the faculty of gerontology, and director of the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Georgia. He is also the director of the Georgia Geriatric Education Center.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Contributors

1. Self-Rated Successful Aging, William J. Strawbridge and Margaret I. Wallhagen
2. Successful Aging and Reciprocity among Older Adults in Assisted Living Settings, William Rakowski, Melissa A. Clark, Susan C. Miller and Katherine Berg
3. Successful Aging: Intended and Unintended Consequences of a Concept, Robert L. Kahn
4. Health Expectancy: An Indicator of Successful Aging and a Measure of the Impact of Chronic Disease and Disability, Eileen M. Crimmins, Jung Ki Kim, and Aaron Hagedorn
5. Risk and Protective Factors for Physical Functioning in Older Adults with and without Chronic Conditions: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging, Teresa Seeman and Xinguang Chen
6. Health Expectancy, Risk Factors, and Physical Functioning, Janice Penrod and Peter Martin
7. Coping with Comorbidity, Leonard W. Poon, Lynn Basford, Clare Dowzer, and Andrew Booth
8. Coping with Specific Chronic Health Conditions, Lynn Basford, Leonard W. Poon, Clare Dowzer, and Andrew Booth
9. Managing Multiple Chronic Health Conditions in Everyday Life, Janice Penrod, Sarah H. Gueldner, and Leonard W. Poon
10. Coping with Multiple Chronic Health Conditions, Peter Martin
11. Metanarratives Surrounding Successful Aging: The Medium Is the Message, Ann L. Whall and Frank D. Hicks

References
Index