Table of Contents
Introduction: Perspectives on the Diversity of the Life Course
Section I: Cultural Constructions of Later Life
1. Images of Aging, Jay Sokolovsky
2. Japan's Honorable Elders, James S. O'Leary
3. "William" and the Old Folks, Mike Hepworth
4. Old Age as a Time of Decay, Carole Haber
5. The Sexless Years or Sex Rediscovered, Benjamin Schlesinger
6. The Age Boom, Jack Rosenthal
7. The Process of Successful Aging, Margaret M. Baltes and Laura L. Carstensen
Section II: Social Contexts of Aging
8. Gender Across Generations, Margaret Hellie Huyck, Pninah Zucker, and Cheryl Angellaccio
9. Definitions of Femininity: Youth to Old Age, Barbara Formaniak Turner and Priyanthi Silva
10. Narrative Accrual and the Life Course, Marilyn Nouri and Marilyn Helterline
11. My Mother's Music, Lydia Minatoya
12. Adaptation of Oldest Old Black Americans, Colleen L. Johnson
13. History, Race, and Attachment to Place, William J. McAuley
14. You Can Go Home Again, Joan Weibel-Orlando
15. Falling Free, Diana Chang
16. Having Our Say, Sarah Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hearth
Section III: Work, Retirement, and Income Security
17. Incorporating Diversity, Toni M. Calasanti
18. Labor Force Trends and Aging Policy, William H. Crown and Charles F. Longino, Jr.
19. Reasonable Accommodation in the Workplace, Lisa A. Hollis-Sawyer
20. Puerto Rican Obituary, Pedro Pietri
21. The Unbearable Lightness of Retirement, Joel Savishinsky
22. Charles Hayes, 76 and Jessie de la Cruz, 74, Studs Terkel
23. A Lifetime of Work, Katherine R. Allen and Victoria Chin-Sang
24. Too Little, Too Late, Kathleen McInnis-Dittrich
Section IV: Family, Social Relationships, and Intergenerational Reciprocity
25. Same-sex and Cross-sex Relationships, Hiroko Akiyama, Kathryn Elliott, and Toni Antonucci
26. Able Elderly in the Family Context, Gunhild O. Hagestad
27. Parenting in Later Life, Marcene Goodman and Robert L. Rubinstein
28. Intergenerational Reciprocity, Susan R. Sherman
29. The Moths, Helena Maria Viramontes
30. Research on Grandparenting, Rachel Pruchno and Katrina W. Johnson
31. Influence of Ethnicity and Culture on Caregivers, María P. Aranda and Bob G. Knight
32. A Mother and Daughter, Tish Sommers and Laurie Shields
33. Gendered Caregiving of Husbands and Sons, Edward H. Thompson, Jr.
34. Hand-me-down People, Jennifer Hand and Patricia Reid
Section V: Health and Illness in Later Life
35. Ageism and Its Impact on Healthy Aging, Lynda D. Grant
36. Rural Navajo and Anglo Elders Aging Well, Judith Bunnell Sellers
37. Assessment of Geriatric Patients, Patricia P. Barry
38. Incipient Dementia: A Victim's Perspective, Morris Friedell
39. Anticipatory Dementia and Well-being, Lynne Gershenshon Hodgson and Stephen J. Cutler
40. Burdens and Boundaries, Leslie A. Morgan and J. Kevin Eckert
41. Patrimony, Philip Roth
42. Psychodynamic Perspective: Physician-assisted Suicide, Philip R. Muskin
43. Health Care Struggle Between Young and Old, Daniel Callahan
44. Healthcare Costs Around the World, Robert H. Binstock
Section VI: Future Directions for Older Americans and for Gerontology
45. Social Security and Aging Baby Boomers, Eric R. Kingson
46. Aging Population to Broaden Medicine, Charles L. Longino, Jr.
47. New Challenges for Gerontology, Meredith Minkler
48. Aging in the Twenty-first Century, Matilda White Riley
