The book contains almost 80 original chapters, commissioned and written by the world’s leading gerontologists from 16 countries and 5 continents; the broad focus of the handbook is on the behavioral and social sciences as well as important contributions from the biological and medical sciences.
The volume provides a diverse, eclectic, and paradoxically mature approach to theorizing and demonstrates how the development of theory is crucial to the future of family research.
The purpose of the volume is to examine consequences of global aging for families and intergenerational support, and for nations as they plan for the future.
Drawing from the longest-running longitudinal study of families in the world, the book casts doubt on the conventional wisdom about family decline during the last decades of the twentieth century.
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Experts present the first comparative analysis of recent developments among six Eastern and Western nations concerning population aging and its consequences.
Distinguished scholars explore and apply the theoretical models of continuity and discontinuity to their research in adult development.
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