Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences (Paperback, 9)

1. Aging, the Life Course, and the Sociological Imagination 2. Aging, Cohorts, and Methods/Quantitative Methods 3. Qualitative Methods 4. Demography of Aging 5. Immigration 6. Global Aging 7. Racial and Ethnic Influences over the Life Course 8. Stratification and Inequality over the Life Course 9. Gender and Aging 10. Families 11. Health Disparities among Older Adults 12. Social Factors and Cognition 13. Stress and Aging 14. Caregiving 15. Economic Status of the Aged in the United States 16. Employment and Aging 17. Effects of Neighborhoods and the Built Environment 18. Effects of Natural Disasters on Older Adults 19. Politics and Aging in the United States 20. The Future of the Retirement Security 21. Organization and Financing of Health Care 22. Religion and Health in Later Life 23. Social Networks of Older people 24. Aging and Sexual Behavior 25. Early Origins of Adult Health