Gerontological Imagination: An Integrative Paradigm of Aging

ISBN-13: 9780190665340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str.

Kenneth F. Ferraro

Opis

The Gerontological Imagination provides an integrative paradigm of aging that makes it the first book to identify intellectual common ground among scholars studying aging. Ferraro identifies an underlying set of principles that constitute a paradigm for the study of aging: causality, life course analysis, multifaceted change, heterogeneity, accumulation processes, and ageism.

Recenzje

[The Gerontological Imagination] provides a useful common language for anyone interested in the field of aging and is well worth a read to ensure that we are all operating with a similar, thoughtful, and inquisitive gerontological imagination.

O autorze

Kenneth F. Ferraro is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center on Aging and the Life Course at Purdue University. Professor Ferraro is the author of more than 120 peer-reviewed journal articles focusing on health and aging. He is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and a former editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.