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Resilience and Aging: Research and Practice
Helen Lavretsky
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Description for Resilience and Aging: Research and Practice
Hardback. Throughout, the book's revolutionary integrative approach aims to amplify personal happiness by allowing aging adults to remain healthy and active while simultaneously reducing the cost of chronic disease to families and society. Num Pages: 272 pages, 5, 5 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: MBN; MJX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 482.
When aging adults struggle with social isolation, financial instability, or the difficult work of caring for a spouse with a chronic illness, their levels of stress can be enormous. But many older adults are living longer and are trying to make the best of their later years despite being more vulnerable to stress. In Resilience and Aging, renowned geriatric psychiatrist Dr. Helen Lavretsky explains how enhanced resilience - which involves positively adapting to adversity in a way that maintains a person's biological and psychological equilibrium - can counter that vulnerability. She describes how care, practice, and research all can be ... Read more
When aging adults struggle with social isolation, financial instability, or the difficult work of caring for a spouse with a chronic illness, their levels of stress can be enormous. But many older adults are living longer and are trying to make the best of their later years despite being more vulnerable to stress. In Resilience and Aging, renowned geriatric psychiatrist Dr. Helen Lavretsky explains how enhanced resilience - which involves positively adapting to adversity in a way that maintains a person's biological and psychological equilibrium - can counter that vulnerability. She describes how care, practice, and research all can be ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
485g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421414980
SKU
V9781421414980
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Helen Lavretsky
Helen Lavretsky, MD, MS, is a professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the Late-life Depression, Stress, and Wellness Research Program at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior. She is the coeditor of Late-life Mood Disorders.
Reviews for Resilience and Aging: Research and Practice
Dr. Lavretsky provides an intellectually stimulating journey into the meaning of resilience with aging, the impact of resilience on psychological well-being, cognitive functioning, and resilience-promotiong interventions... Resilience and Aging: Research and Practice is a wonderful book that provides the reader with an in-depth understanding of the complexities of resilience in aging and how practitioners can maximize resilience in aging patients. ... Read more