Handbook of minority aging [electronic resource] / editors, Tamara A. Baker, Keith E. Whitfield ; volume associate editors, Cleopatra M. Abdou ... [et al.].
2014
RA408.M54 H36 2014eb
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Title
Handbook of minority aging [electronic resource] / editors, Tamara A. Baker, Keith E. Whitfield ; volume associate editors, Cleopatra M. Abdou ... [et al.].
ISBN
9780826109644 (electronic book)
9780826109637
9780826109637
Publication Details
New York, N.Y. : Springer Pub. Co., c2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xviii, 570 p.)
Call Number
RA408.M54 H36 2014eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.60973
Summary
This text provides up-to-date, multidisciplinary, and comprehensive information about aging among diverse racial and ethnic populations in the United States. It is the only book to focus on paramount public health issues as they relate to older minority Americans, and addresses social, behavioral, and biological concerns for this population. The text distills the most important advances in the science of minority aging and incorporates the evidence of scholars in gerontology, anthropology, psychology, public health, sociology, social work, biology, medicine, and nursing.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
pt. 1. Psychology of minority aging
pt. 2. Public health/biology of minority aging
pt. 3. Social work and minority aging
pt. 4. Sociology of minority aging.
pt. 2. Public health/biology of minority aging
pt. 3. Social work and minority aging
pt. 4. Sociology of minority aging.