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Physical Illness and Depression in Older Adults

A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Practice

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

Aging is inevitable-A "psychological recession" is not . . . As I go about my daily life, I read and hear about the sometimes scary things that are happening to other people. As the saying goes, bad news sells newspapers. But I u- ally can take some solace in reasoning that this bad stuff assuredly will not occur in my life. After reading this book, however, one message has gotten through–I cannot d- miss "those" older people described in the various chapters as being dissimilar to me. After all, "old person" is a term that can be applied to me in a few more years. On this point, I once heard the following rhetorical question applied to the prejudice actions of the TV character Archie Bunker: "What would he say about "those" Puerto Ricans, if, on his next birthday, he knew that he would become a Puerto Rican?" As to aging, we best pay close attention because we soon will be "those" elders. This is why the alarming facts of this book-that our elders often are experiencing elevatedlevelsofphysicalillnessesanddepression–grabbedmebytheproverbialthroat.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-1-4757-7377-4 / 978-1475773774 / 9781475773774

Verlag: Springer US

Erscheinungsdatum: 17.03.2013

Seiten: 370

Auflage: 1

Herausgegeben von Gail M. Williamson, David R. Shaffer, Patricia A. Parmelee

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