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Positive aging
 — a guide for mental health professionals and consumers
Author(s)Robert D Hill
PublisherW W Norton & Company, London, 2006
Pages256 pp
SourceJohn Wiley & Sons, Distribution Centre, 1 Oldlands Way, Bognor Regis, West Sussex PO22 9SA. Email: cs-books@wiley.co.uk
KeywordsAgeing process ; Good Health ; Well being ; Guides, guide books ; United States of America.
AnnotationPositive ageing describes an individual acting on the resources available to him or her to optimise the ageing experience. This book presents nine different aspects of positive ageing, which it first distinguishes from normal ageing and successful ageing. It describes three life span models of ageing: Erikson's life stages of development; continuity theory; and selectivity, optimisation and compensation (SOC). Chapters follow on assessment strategies and instruments; psychological barriers to positive ageing; psychotherapies and special populations; and positive spirituality and meaning-based counselling. The last two chapters focus on particular applications of positive ageing: physical disability and caregiving; and grief, bereavement, death and dying. (RH).
Accession NumberCPA-060314220 B
ClassmarkBG: CD: D:F:5HH: 69N: 7T

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