Encyclopedia of Geropsychology
Samenvatting
This encyclopedia brings together key established and emerging research findings in geropsychology. It is a comprehensive coverage of the entire breadth of the field, giving readers access to all major subareas and illustrating their interconnections with other disciplines. Entries delve deep into key areas of geropsychology such as perception, cognition, clinical, organizational, health, social, experimental and neuropsychology. In addition to that, the encyclopedia covers related disciplines such as neuroscience, social science, population health, public policy issues pertaining to retirement, epidemiology and demography and medicine. Paying careful attention to research internationally, it cites English and non-English empirical literature from around the globe. This encyclopedia is relevant to a wide audience that include researchers, clinicians, students, policy makers and nongovernmental agencies.
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<p>PTSD and Trauma.- Reminiscence.- Remotivation Therapy.- Respite Care.- Restraint use in long term care.- Rumination.- Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders in Older Adults.- Small-scale homelike care in nursing homes.- Substance Use and Abuse.- Subsyndromal Psychiatric Disorders</p>
<p>Suicide.- Telemental health.- Training Psychologists in Aging.- Worry in Later Life.- Advocacy with Older Adults.- Age Stereotyping and Discrimination.- Age, Self and Identity: Structure, Stability and Adaptive Function.- Age-friendly communities.- Age-Related Positivity Effect and its Implications for Social and Health Gerontology.- Ageing, inequalities and health.- Aging and Psychological Well-Being.- Aging and Quality of Life.- Altruism and Prosocial Behaviour.- Attitudes and self perceptions of ageing.- Cognitive Dissonance in Aging.- Communication with older adults.- Cross-cultural aging</p>
Disability and Ageing.- End of life care.- Filial Responsibility.- Grandparenthood and the Changing Nature of Social Relationships.- Housing Solutions for Older Adults.- Human and Civil Rights of Older People.- Intergenerational Relationships.- Late Life Transitions.- Leisure Activities in Later Life.- Loneliness and Social Embeddedness in Old Age.- Marriage and Divorce in Later Life.- Mental Health and Aging.- Migration and Aging.- Positive emotion processing.- Sexuality and Aging.- Social Cognition and Aging.- Social Connectedness and Health.- Social Exchange Theory and Aging.- Social Group Interventions for Older Adults.- Social Identity Change and Driving in Later Life.- Social Media and Aging.- Social Policies for Aging Societies.- Spirituality and religious participation in later life.- Strength and vulnerability integration.- Widowhood in late life.- Age and Intraindividual Variability.- Aging and Attention.- Aging and Driving.- Aging and Inhibition.- Aging and Semantic Memory.- Aging and Slowing of the Neuro-Motor System.- Aging/Memory: Dual Coding Theory.- Andropause: Understanding the Role of Male Hormones in the Aging Process.- Automaticity and Skill in Late Adulthood.- Behaviour Modification.- Brain Training Games.- Cognitive and Brain plasticity in Old Age.- Cognitive Changes, Normal and Age-Related.- Cognitive Compensation.- Cognitive Control and Self-Regulation.- Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging.- Cohort Effects.- Crystallized intelligence.- Decision Making.- Effects of Stress on Memory: Relevance for Human Aging.- Emotion-Cognition Interactions.- Ergonomics and demographics.- Event-Related Potentials.- Everyday Cognition.- Executive Functions Expertise.- Gender Differences in Memory and Cognition.- Individual Differences.- Intelligence and ageing.- Knowledge.- Language: Comprehension.- Language: Discourse Production and Communication.- Language: Naming.- Learning in Older Adults.- Memory: Autobiographical.- Memory: Episodic.- Memory: Implicit.- Memory: Procedural.- Memory: Training Methods and Benefits.- Memory:Rehabilitation.- Metacognition in Older Adulthood.- Physiological Effects on Cognition.- Problem solving.- Prospective memory: New perspectives for geropsychological research.- Response Time.- Risk Taking and Aging.- Sensory effects on cognition in later life.- Sleep Effects on Cognition with Aging.- Spatial Ability and Wayfinding.- Strategy Use.- Time Perception and Aging.- Visual and Haptic Perception.- Wisdom.- Working memory in older age.- Active Ageing.- Balance and Falls.- Burden of disease.- Cardiovascular health.- Complementary and alternative medicine.- Dual sensory loss.- Frailty in later life.- Health promotion.- Health-related Quality of life.- Healthy aging.- Incontinence and aging.- Life events.- Medication issues in later life.- Menopause.- Mobile e-health.- Nutrition and diet.- Obesity and weight gain in older people.- Older adults in the emergency health care setting.- Physical activity and aging.- Physical Therapy.- Primary care and older people.- Psycho-Social Wellbeing.- Psychological aspects of diabetes.- Quality of life in older people.- Resilience and health.- Rural Health and Aging: Global Perspectives.- Smoking.- Telemedicine.- Vision loss.- Oral health in Older Adults.- Agnosia and related disorders.- Alzheimer's Disease.- Aphasia In Later Life.- Apraxia.- Assessment of functional abilities in older adults (BADLs, IADLs).- Assessment strategies in geriatric neuropsychology.- Autistic Spectrum Disorders in later life.- Brain tumours in older adults.- Capacity assessment.- Cognitive Rehabilitation.- Delirium.- Dementia & Neurocognitive disorders.- ECT.- Encephalopathies.- Executive functioning.- Frailty and Cognition.- Frontotemporal dementias.- Genetics and epigenetics in later life.- Head Injury/TBI.- HIV and AIDS in Later Life.- Lewy Body Disease.- Mild Cognitive Impairment.- Neurocognitive markers of aging.- Neuroimaging.- Neuropsychological consequences of chronic disease in older persons.- Neurotrophic factors in aging.- Parkinson’s disease.- Primary Progressive Aphasia.- Semantic dementia.- Subjective memory.- Vascular and mixed dementia.- Visuospatial abilities.- Younger Onset Dementia.- Affect and emotion regulation in aging workers.- Age and Blended Working.- Age Discrimination.- Age diversity at work.- Age stereotypes in the workplace.- Age, Organizational Citizenship Behaviors and Counterproductive Work Behaviors.- Age-Related Changes in Abilities.-Bridge Employment.- Career Development and Aging.- Conflict management and aging in the workplace.- Early and unplanned retirement.- Eldercare and Work.- Employee Green Behavior and Aging.- Employment of Older Workers.- Entrepreneurship and aging.- Financial Planning for Retirement.- Flexible Work Arrangements.- From work to retirement.- Human resource management and aging.- Job attitudes and age.- Job Crafting in Aging Employees.- Job Loss, Job Search and Reemployment in Later Adulthood.- Knowledge Retention at Work and Aging.- Leadership and Aging.- Lifelong Learning and Work.- Motivation to continue work after retirement.- Occupational Health, Well-Being, and Aging.- Organizational climates and age.- Organizational Strategies for Attracting, Utilizing, and Retaining Older Workers.- Organizational Wisdom and Aging.- Person-environment fit and motive-congruency in the context of work and aging.- Post-retirement Career Planning.- Proactivity and Aging at Work.- Psychological contracts and age.- Purpose, Meaning, and Work in Later Life.- Recruitment and Selection of older workers.- Retirement and cognitive functioning.- Retirement and Continuity Theory.- Retirement and Social Policy.- Retirement Planning and Adjustment.- Retirement Villages.- Role of Age in Workplace Mentoring.- Role of Children in Their Parents’ Retirement Processes.- Selection, Optimization, and Compensation at Work in Relation to Age.- Stereotype threat and aging in the workplace.- Stress and Well-Being: Its Relationship to Work and Retirement for Older Workers.- Subjective Age and Work.- Sustainable Employability and Aging.- Technology and Older Workers.- Timing of Retirement.- Training at work and aging.- Volunteering in older adults in retirement.- Women and Retirement.- Work Context and Personality Development.- Across Adulthood.- Work Design and Aging.- Work motivation and aging.- Workplace Creativity, Innovation, and Age.</p>