Dicen que la muerte está tan segura de ganarnos la partida, que nos deja toda una vida de ventaja. Esta obra gira en torno a ese recorrido que se nos da de ventaja, en el que no vence el que llega primero, sino el que sabe llegar; y el envejecimiento parece ser la única manera de vivir mucho tiempo. El manual está estructurado en cuatro grandes partes: en la primera se estudian los temas universales del envejecimiento y las grandes tesis explicativas del mismo. En la segunda parte se analiza la estabilidad y el cambio en los aspectos psicológicos, tanto los cognitivos como los afectivos y de la personalidad, incluido el contexto social de la muerte. La parte tercera se centra en la intervención en trastornos asociados a la vejez, tanto los cognitivos o demencias como los afectivos o depresiones y ansiedad. Por último, dado que el interés principal de esta obra, más que en por qué envejecemos, se centra en cómo se debe envejecer, en la parte cuarta se plantea un envejecimiento activo con nuevas alternativas, explicando cómo incide la distribución del tiempo en los estilos de vida y éstos a su vez en los modos de envejecer, y cómo conciliar vejez y futuro.

Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Seventh Edition, provides extensive reviews and critical evaluations of research on the social aspects of aging. It also makes available major references and identifies high-priority topics for future research. The book is organized into four parts. Part 1 reviews developments in the field of age and the life course (ALC) studies and presents guidelines on conducting cohort analysis. Part 2 covers the demographic aspects of aging; longevity trends; disability and aging; and stratification and inequality research. Part 3 includes chapters that examine socioeconomic position and racial/ethnic disparities in health at older ages; the role of social factors in the distribution, antecedents, and consequences of depression; and aspects of private wealth transfers and the changing nature of family gift-giving. Part 4 deals with pension reform in Europe; the political activities of older Americans; the future of retirement security; and gender differences in old age. The Handbook is intended for researchers, professional practitioners, and students in the field of aging. It can also serve as a basic reference tool for scholars, professionals, and others who are not presently engaged in research and practice directly focused on aging and the aged. - Contains all the main areas of social science gerontological research in one volume - Begins with a section on theory and methods - Edited by one of the fathers of gerontology (Binstock) and contributors represent top scholars in gerontology

This book is the first of a new series which will present the proceedings of the newly established Nestlé Nutrition Workshop Series: Clinical & Performance Programme aimed at adult nutrition. Undernutrition is a common phenomenon in elderly people, and malnutrition reaches significant levels in those being in hospital, nursing homes or home care programs. Consequences of malnutrition often go unrecognised owing to the lack of specific validated instruments to assess nutritional status in frail elderly persons. The Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) provides a single, rapid assessment of nutritional status in the elderly of different degrees of independence, allowing the prevalence of protein-energy malnutrition to be determined and to evaluate the efficacy of nutritional intervention and strategies. Easy, quick and economical to perform, it enables staff to check the nutritional status of elderly people when they enter hospitals or institutions and to monitor changes occurring during their stay. Moreover, the MNA is predictive of the cost of care and length of stay in hospital. This publication will be of immense assistance to heads of geriatric teaching units, teachers in nutrition, clinicians general practitioners and dieticians, enabling them to better detect, recognise and start treatment of malnutrition in the elderly.

This supplement to the journal, International Psychogeriatrics introduces the Canadian Study of Health and Aging, one of the largest epidemiologic studies of dementia conducted to date. A comprehensive description of the study methods and data sets as well as selected results are discussed.