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Edited by K. Warner Schaie and Ronald P. Abeles
391 pp, $85
New York, NY, Springer, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-8261-2408-1

JAMA. 2009;302(8):900-901.

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Social Structures and Aging Individuals: Continuing Challenges is the 20th and final volume in a series of edited books on the interplay between social structures and the individual aging process. This book arose from the proceedings of a 2-day meeting held at the Pennsylvania State Gerontology Center in October 2006. K. Warner Schaie, a renowned researcher with expertise in cognitive aging and longitudinal research methodology, served as the series editor on all 20 volumes. The encompassing idea of all of the volumes was to define and discuss underpinnings of interactions between social structures, behavior, and human development, particularly in older adulthood.

The past few decades have seen a tremendous increase in interest and research in social and behavioral aspects of human aging, which has led to a need to synthesize knowledge to reap the full benefits of the published works for research, policy, and practice. In the early 1980s, a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Ross Andel, PhD, Reviewer
Department of Aging Studies
University of South Florida
Tampa
randel@cas.usf.edu

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