Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 440 pages
• Published by: Sage Publications, Inc
• Edition: 1st Edition July 17, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0761922598
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0761922599
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Weighs: 1.6 pounds

Product Review
"Gaining understanding of aging is one of the most complex issues facing twenty-first century science. This book addresses the complexity of the factors that interact and influence the course of our longer life expectancy!.How we humans grow old is a product of our genetic background as members of a species and our families. But the genome expresses itself in physical and social environments that modulate the appearance of heredity traits. In a sense aging is an ecological problem in which the dynamics are often difficult to explain!.This book brings information from the sciences together in a way that is rarely done!..It provides an integration of knowledge about the dynamics of aging and can promote wisdom about how we can modify the life course to our advantage." -- James Birren



"Gaining understanding of aging is one of the most complex issues facing twenty-first century science. This book addresses the complexity of the factors that interact and influence the course of our longer life expectancy….How we humans grow old is a product of our genetic background as members of a species and our families. But the genome expresses itself in physical and social environments that modulate the appearance of heredity traits. In a sense aging is an ecological problem in which the dynamics are often difficult to explain….This book brings information from the sciences together in a way that is rarely done…..It provides an integration of knowledge about the dynamics of aging and can promote wisdom about how we can modify the life course to our advantage." -- Review

Product Review


"Gaining understanding of aging is one of the most complex issues facing twenty-first century science. This book addresses the complexity of the factors that interact and influence the course of our longer life expectancy….How we humans grow old is a product of our genetic background as members of a species and our families. But the genome expresses itself in physical and social environments that modulate the appearance of heredity traits. In a sense aging is an ecological problem in which the dynamics are often difficult to explain….This book brings information from the sciences together in a way that is rarely done…..It provides an integration of knowledge about the dynamics of aging and can promote wisdom about how we can modify the life course to our advantage." (James Birren )