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The authors of the book chapter conclude that religion still forms a common thread that stretches across multiple generations in the family, although divorce serves as a significant mitigating factor.
The book uses a comparative research framework to further our understanding of issues in health and aging in the transnational context of the health and migratory experience of the U.S.- Mexican population.
The work expands the traditional focus of religiosity to include and evaluate recent research and discoveries on the role of secular spirituality in the aging process
The handbook is intended to keep researchers and practitioners in gerontology abreast of the newest theories and models of aging; this edition features virtually all new contributors and content and 35 chapters by the most highly respected luminaries in the field.
This book examines one of the most important demographic changes facing the United States: an overall aging population and the increasing influence of Latinos.
The book brings together state-of-the-art research on successful aging in Asian populations and highlights how the factors that contribute to successful aging differ from those in the West.
Researchers followed more than 350 families composed of more than 3,500 individuals to find out how religion is, or is not, passed down from one generation to the next.
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