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Productive aging: concepts and challenges
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ISBN: 0801876575 9780801876578 0801865573 9780801865572 Year: 2001 Publisher: Baltimore Hopkins University Press

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"This book will find most of its audience among the social gerontologists, but can be read by practitioners with merit... Many trainees could be stimulated by this excellent work to creative thinking." -- Doody's Book of Review Service "A systematic definitive account of the concept of productive aging." -- Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare.


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Financial capability and asset holding in later life : a life course perspective
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ISBN: 0199374325 0199374317 9780199374311 9780199374304 0199374309 Year: 2015 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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"With today's availability of Social Security and Medicare, we typically think of the older years as a stage in life where people are supported financially. However, of the more than 40 million old adults currently living in the US, many are struggling financially living below or near the poverty line. They are lacking the assets necessary to see them through a period of life that is often longer than expected and that requires more health and long-term care. While financial vulnerability can be most pronounced in old age, it is often created across decades, revealing itself in later years when there is little opportunity to reverse a lifetime of disadvantage. The concept of Financial Capability refers to both an individual and structural idea that combines a person's ability to act with their opportunity to act in their best financial interests. In Financial Capability and Asset Holding in Later Life: A Life Course Perspective the concept of Financial Capability is used to underscore the importance of acquiring knowledge and skills while also addressing policies and services than can build financial security. The volume assembles the latest evidence on financial capability and assets among older adults using a life course perspective, arguing that older adults need financial knowledge and financial services in order to build secure lives, and that this process needs to begin before it is too late to make effective changes and choices. Broken into three parts, the chapters in this book written by leading experts in the field blend together empirical findings, economic and social theory, and case studies. Part 1 opens the book with a conceptual and empirical overview of financial capability and assets among older adults using a life course perspective. Part 2 presents chapters addressing financial vulnerability of diverse racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and immigrants. Part 3 includes chapters describing current policies, programs, and innovations, including a review of important issues of working and caregiving in later life, and a detailed assessment of "age-friendly" banking principles, banking products, services, and policies"--


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Productive engagement in later life: a global perspective
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ISBN: 9780415698160 Year: 2012 Publisher: London Routledge

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Handbook of theories of aging
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ISBN: 1785399772 0826129439 9780826129437 9780826129420 0826129420 9781785399770 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Springer Publishing Company, LLC,

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This state-of-the-art handbook will keep researchers and practitioners in gerontology abreast of the newest theories and models of aging. The chapters in the third edition place a strong emphasis on the future of theory development, assessing the current state of theories and providing a roadmap for how theory can shape research, and vice versa, in years to come.

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