Process of Aging

One: Psychological Capacities; Introduction; I: Studies of Cognition; 1: Intellectual Capacities, Aging, and Manâs Environment; 2: Psychological and Psychomotor Functions in Aging; 3: Information Transmission and Age; 4: Experimental-Clinical Method and the Cognitive Disorders of the Senium; 5: Age Differences in Conceptual Abilities; II: Psychophysiological Problems; 6: Social, Psychological, and Physiological Gerontologyâ"An Experimental Psychologistâs Approach; 7: Cognitive Tasks in Several Modalities; 8: The Halstead Index and Differential Aging; 9: Psychophysiological Techniques in the Study of the Aged; 10: Assessing Biological Age; III: Psychological Environment; 11: Appraising Environment; 12: Environment and Meaningful Activity; 13: Sixty-five and Over; 14: Expectations of Supervisors Concerning Older Workers; Two: Successful Aging; Introduction; 15: The Concept of Adjustment in Old Age; 16: Successful Aging; 17: Personality and the Aging Process; 18: Styles of Life and Successful Aging; Three: Psychopathology of Aging; Introduction; I: Diagnosis and Classification; 19: Diagnostic and Nosological Aspects of Mental Disorder in Old Age; 20: Schizophrenias of Old Age; 21: Patterns of Geriatric Mental Illness; II: Psychological Processes and Variables; 22: On Becoming an Institutionalized Aged Person; 23: The Influence of Age on Schizophrenia; III: Coping with the Psychopathologies of the Aged; 24: The Follow-Up Method in the Management of Aged Psychiatric Patients; 25: Community and Hospital Care of the Mentally III; 26: Rehabilitation of Long-Term Aged Patients; Four: Summary and Conclusions; 27: Implications for Future Research; Subject Index; Name Index; Process of Aging: Social and Psychological Perspectives: Volume 2; Process of Aging; ; Preface; 5: Relations with Family and Society; Introduction; I: Methodological Considerations; 28: National Studies of Older People in the United States; 29: Longitudinal Studies in Social Gerontology; II: Substantive Studies; 30: Social System and the Problem of Aging; 31: The Older Person in Family, Community, and Society; 32: The Transition from Extended Families to Nuclear Families; 33: The Impact of Age on Attitudes toward Social Change; 34: Attitudes toward Special Settings for the Aged; Six: Social Factors in Psychiatric Disorders; Introduction; I: Epidemiology and Ecology; 35: Epidemiology of Old-Age Psychiatric Disorders; 36: Social and Epidemiological Aspects of Suicide with Special Reference to the Aged; 37: Aging and Mental Health in Hong Kong; II: Social Processes and Variables; 38: Adjustment of the Normal Aged: Concept and Measurement; 39: Some Social Dimensions of Psychiatric Disorders in Old Age; 40: Hospitalization of the Elderly Psychiatrically Ill; 41: Measuring Incapacity for Self-Care; Seven: Economics, Health, and Retirement; Introduction; I: Employment-Patterns and Health; 42: Work Patterns of Older People; 43: Seniority Protection for Older Workers; 44: Reflections on the Health and Employment of Older People; 45: Occupational Health and Old Age; 46: The Matrix of Health, Manpower, and Age; II: Retirement-Attitudes, Influences, and Income; 47: Retirementâ"Norms, Behavior, and Functional Aspects of Normative Behavior; 48: Social Values and the Institutionalization of Retirement; 49: Workersâ and Employersâ Attitudes toward Retirement Age and Pensions; 50: Income Security, Retirement, and Pension-Deduction Rules; 51: State Pensions and Retirement Age; 52: Income Security Programs and the Propensity to Retire; 53: Occupation and Health; 54: Levels of Living in Old Ageâ"Basic Issues; 55: Old-Age Pensions and Allowances in France; 56: Recent Developments in Income Security Programs in the United Kingdom; 57: Policies and Issues in Old-Age Income Security in the United States; 58: Standard Budgets for Elderly Persons; Eight: Summary and Conclusions; 59: Implications for Future Research