Description
Book SynopsisThroughout, the book's revolutionary integrative approach aims to amplify personal happiness by allowing aging adults to remain healthy and active while simultaneously reducing the cost of chronic disease to families and society.
Trade ReviewDr. Lavretsky provides an intellectually stimulating journey into the meaning of resilience with aging, the impact of resilience on psychological well-being, cognitive functioning, and resilience-promotiong interventions... Resilience and Aging: Research and Practice is a wonderful book that provides the reader with an in-depth understanding of the complexities of resilience in aging and how practitioners can maximize resilience in aging patients. -- Frank W. Brown American Journal of Psychiatry A comprehensive review of resilience and its relationship to the areas of aging-related science, policy, treatment, and intervention, with an overall goal of creating awareness about resilience-building and improving the lives of older adults and their families. The Gerontologist
Table of ContentsPreface
1. What Is Resilience in the Context of Aging?
2. Psychological Emotional Resilience and Cognitive Resilience
3. Resilience and Longevity
4. Biomarkers and the Neurobiology of Resilience
5. Gene–Environment Interaction and Resilience
6. Common Stressors of Old Age and Their Effect on Resilience
7. Spirituality and Aging
8. Social Models of Promoting Resilience
9. Cultural and Ethnic Factors in Understanding and Building Resilience
10. Measuring Resilience in Older Adults
11. Resilience-Promoting Interventions
12. Building Resilient Communities for Older Adults
13. Resilience-Building Interventions and Prevention of Chronic Diseases of Aging
14. Epilogue
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