Description
Meeting a growing need, this authoritative reference and text comprehensively examines the interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors in health and illness in older adults. The volume explores how and why some people adapt more successfully than others to age-related stressors such as chronic illness, disability, and loss, and identifies ways to promote coping and resilience. With contributions from leading researchers in health psychology and gerontology, the Handbook integrates state-of-the-science theories and methods from both fields. Key topics include how aging affects the cardiovascular, neuroendocrine, and immune systems; the influences on adult development and health of personality, emotions, social support, and religiousness; and effective interventions in healthcare settings.
Chapter
2. Challenging Assumptions about Adult Development: Implications for the Health of Older Adults
3. A Developmental Approach to Psychosocial Risk Factors and Successful Aging
4. Methods in Health Psychology: Relevance to Aging
5. The Relevance of a Lifespan Developmental Approach to Health
PART II. BIOLOGICAL ISSUES
6. Psychoneuroimmunological Processes in Aging and Health
7. The Psychoneuroendocrinology of Aging: Anabolic and Catabolic Hormones
8. Cardiovascular Reactivity in Older Adults
PART III. PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES
9. A Lifespan Approach to Personality and Longevity: The Case of Conscientiousness
10. Sense of Control and Health: A Dynamic Duo in the Aging Process
11. Coping, Health, and Aging
12. Health and Psychological Consequences of Caregiving
13. Psychosocial Stress, Emotion Regulation, and Resilience among Older Adults
14. Optimizing Social Relationships as a Resource for Health and Well-Being in Later Life
15. Issues of Diversity in Health Psychology and Aging
16. Religious and Spiritual Issues in Health and Aging
17. Self-Regulation of Health Threats, Affect, and the Self: Lessons from Older Adults
18. The Role of Clinical Health Geropsychology in the Health Care of Older Adults
19. Effects of Changes in Diagnostic Thresholds on Health Care for Older Adults
20. Health Psychology and Aging: Moving to the Next Generation of Research
Handbook of Health Psychology and Aging
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