Profiles in Gerontology: A Biographical Dictionary

Analytical profiles of almost 300 researchers who have been important in the development of the field of gerontology over the last 50 years.

Profiles in Cognitive Aging
By Douglas H. Powell, Dean K. Whitla
Along with the criteria for mild cognitive impairment and normal cognitive aging, this book addresses the question of optimal cognitive aging, identifying its characteristics and searching out their implications for the maintenance of ...
101+ Careers in Gerontology, Second Edition
By PhD, MPA, MA
This second edition encompasses career changes and opportunities resulting from the newly created Administration for Community Living, and those influenced by policy changes in Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and the Patient Protection ...
U.S. Aging Policy Interest Groups: Institutional Profiles
By Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer, David Dirck Van Tassel
This reference book defines the work of major organizations in the United States concerned with public policies that affect 30 million elderly Americans today. In-depth analyses of the strategies, programs,...
Caloric Restriction: A Key to Understanding and Modulating Aging
By E.J. Masoro
This book aims to provide the growing number of researchers in this field (faculty, postdoctoral trainees, and graduate students) with a detailed knowledge of what is known about caloric restriction within the frame of gerontology, as well ...
Healthy ageing profiles guidance for producing local health profiles for older people
By Lena Kanström
This guidance uses a positive and dynamic model for profiling older people at the local level.