Book Review: Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession: Global Perspectives

Successful aging as a multidimensional concept: An integrative review

    Background: Successful aging as an umbrella term with a large amount of literature has emerged with a variety of meanings and dimensions in different studies. This article aims at determining what dimensions contribute to constructing the concept of successful aging.    Methods: The method used in this study is an integrative review of published literature related ...

Book Review: Contemporary Sensorimotor Theory

Consciousness, with its irreducible subjective character, was almost exclusively a philosophical topic until relatively recently. Today, however, the problem of explaining the felt quality of experience has also become relevant to science and engineering, including robotics andAI: “What would we have to build into a robot so that it really felt the touch of a finger, the redness of red, or the ...

Book Review Perspectives

Successful aging: early influences and contemporary characteristics.

PURPOSE positing that successful aging has independent, yet related, dimensions that are both objective and subjective, we examine how early influences and contemporary characteristics define 4 groups of people. DESIGN AND METHODS data were gathered from 5,688 persons aged 50-74 years living in New Jersey who participated in telephone interviews. Latent profile analysis defined people who age...

Book Review: Modern Poisons: A Brief Introduction to Contemporary Toxicology