Overview
- With a foreword by Christine Bryden
- Discusses the theoretical, conceptual, empirical, and practical issues relating to ageing
- Brings within reach excellent examples from multiple perspectives on the psychology of ageing
- Offers multi-disciplinary insight for social workers and health professionals as well as researchers in the social sciences and medicine
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Social and Critical Psychology
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Cognitive and Biological Psychology
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Community and Political Psychology
Keywords
- ageing studies
- cognition in older people
- critical psychology
- biological psychology
- health in ageing
- active ageing
- dementia
- community psychology
- political psychology
- Empathy in palliative care
- Stress and the immune system
- negative social representations of ageing
- age-friendly cities
- Critical social psychology
- Alzheimer’s Disease and Ageing
- New Dynamics of Ageing
- Environmental psychology
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Carol Holland is Professor of Ageing at Lancaster University, UK, and Director of the Centre for Ageing Research. She is a co-ordinator for the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing.
Michael Murray is Professor of Social and Health Psychology at Keele University, UK. He has co-authored Health Psychology (5 editions) and co-edited Critical Health Psychology and Qualitative Health Psychology (with Kerry Chamberlain).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Psychologies of Ageing
Book Subtitle: Theory, Research and Practice
Editors: Elizabeth Peel, Carol Holland, Michael Murray
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97034-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97033-2Published: 26 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07288-9Published: 21 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97034-9Published: 09 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 289
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Personality and Social Psychology, Aging, Health Psychology, Biological Psychology, Critical Psychology, Cognitive Psychology