Behavioural Gerontology: Central Issues in the Psychology of Ageing

By D.B. Bromley

Presented here is a cogent framework for and critique of the study of human aging. The relevant concepts, methods, findings and applications of the psychology are reviewed from a multidisciplinary viewpoint, with the central focus on behavioral gerontology. Among the areas explored are the nature and scope of adult development and aging; the adult life-path; personality and social adjustment; physical health; depression; dementia; memory functions, reminiscence, and memory failures; motivation and emotion and the problem of age, cohort and period effects. Included are assessment and treatment guidance/theories plus summaries of conclusions and findings.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471927473
• ISBN13: 9780471927471
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.1" x 6.3"