Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Vol. 29: Life-Course Perspectives on Late Life Health Outcomes

Synopsis

It is increasingly recognized that an individual's experience of old age is fundamentally influenced by their earlier life experiences. This volume of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics begins with an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of both the Life Span and the Life Course perspectives on health disparities in aging populations, examining them in the context of a changing structure of society.

This volume focuses on morbidities in general as well as specific morbidities such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension, giving special attention to life-time influences on cognition and functional abilities. Finally, this new volume addresses broader policy issues with relation to Life Span and Life Course perspectives on aging.

Key Features:

• Addresses an important topic of increasing relevance.
• Addresses the issue of disparities from genes to geography
• Presents traditional and emerging scientific perspectives

Table of Contents

I. Introduction

• 1. Theoretical Perspectives of Life Span and Life Course Development
• 2. The Demographic Revolution

II. Morbidity:

• 3. Life time influences on late life Mortality
• 4. Epidemiological perspectives on life time influences on late life morbidities
• 5. Biopsychosocial perspectives on late life morbidities
• 6. Biobehavioral aspects of Late Life Morbidities

III. Specific Morbidities

• 7. Disparities, diabetes and cardiovascular disorders
• 8. Genetic influences on Disparities in Hypertension/Obesity

IV. Contextual Influences

• 9. Environment effects on health
• 10. Work, retirement and race and health disparities
• 11. Medication compliance and health disparities

V. Cognition

• 11. Cognition and Disparities
• 12. Dementias, mild cognitive impairments, and health disparities
• VI. Frailty and Functional Limitations
• 13. HD, Life course events and disability in late life
• 14. Arthritis and health inequalities

VII. Policy

• 15. Policy issues and disparities
• 16. The Aging Society

VIII. Conclusion