Editorial: Contexts of Aging

Editorial: AGING

It is a multidimensional and multidisciplinary diagnostic process, to determine the medical, physiological and functional capacities of a fragile elderly person, with the aim of developing a coordinated and comprehensive plan for long-term treatment and follow-up. It emphasises the quality of life and functional status. The Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment is a dynamic process, since it is pe...

Editorial More on Aging Research

I n my editorial in the April 2009 issue of JAAA I noted the interesting study, ‘‘Speech Recognition and Temporal Processing in Middle-Aged Women,’’ by Karen S. Helfer and Megan Vargo of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the University of Pittsburgh, respectively,. The authors show that, in comparison with a young group, middle-aged women demonstrated apparent aging effects on speech ...

Editorial: Aging and Mental Health

According to the " Mental Health Action Plan 2013–2020 " (WHO, 2013), mental health is an integral part of health and well-being and includes not only individual characteristics but also social, cultural, economic political, and environmental factors. The report recognizes that depending on the context certain groups, such as older people, are at higher risk of having mental health problems and...

Editorial introduction: Motivation and learning in multiple contexts

The significance of the context for understanding motivation and learning is not novel in the field of educational psychology (e. g. Anderman and Anderman 2000; Volet and Järvelä 2001). Socio-cognitive, sociocultural and situative perspectives all stress the integration of self and context to understand how individual engagement, learning and development emerge in dynamic, reciprocal interactio...

Guest Editorial Sexuality education in different contexts: limitations and possibilities