Handbook of Aging and Mental Health: An Integrative Approach

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-14
Declarative and Differential Aspects of Subjective Well-Being and Its Implications for Mental Health in Later Life....Pages 15-43
Control....Pages 45-67
Resilience in Adulthood and Later Life....Pages 69-96
Front Matter....Pages 97-99
Toward a Developmentally Informed Theory of Mental Disorder in Older Adults....Pages 101-120
Conservation of Resources, Stress, and Aging....Pages 121-134
War Trauma and the Aged....Pages 135-152
Toward a Temporal—Spatial Model of Cumulative Life Stress....Pages 153-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-181
The Double Voice of the Third Age....Pages 183-196
Epistemology, Expectation, and Aging....Pages 197-216
An Image of Aging and the Concept of Aintegration....Pages 217-250
Front Matter....Pages 251-253
Psychoanalysis, the Life Story, and Aging....Pages 255-280
The Psychoimmune System in Later Life....Pages 281-295
Uses of the Past in Adult Psychological Health....Pages 297-318
Front Matter....Pages 319-322
Perspectives on the Family and Stress in Late Life....Pages 323-340
A Frame of Reference for Guiding Research Regarding the Relationship between Adult Attachment and Mental Health in Aging Families....Pages 341-353
Multigenerational Families and Mental Illness in Late Life....Pages 355-381
Cross-Cultural Perspective on Attitudes toward Family Responsibility and Well-Being in Later Years....Pages 383-412
Front Matter....Pages 413-415
The Significance of Memory Complaints in Later Life....Pages 417-434
Age-Related Cognitive Decline and the Dementia Threshold....Pages 435-448
Front Matter....Pages 413-415
Education and Dementia....Pages 449-458
Front Matter....Pages 459-461
Depression as a Pivotal Component in Secondary Aging....Pages 463-482
The Variability of Depression in Old Age....Pages 483-495
Aging and Behavioral Medicine....Pages 497-510
Epilogue....Pages 511-519
Back Matter....Pages 521-539