Interdisciplinary Research on Healthy Aging: Introduction

Introduction: perspectives on healthy aging.

The lenses with which we view aging are formed by many things: the maturing of gerontology as a discipline, the development of our theoretical and methodological tools for examining age and aging, and population aging itself. ‘‘Healthy aging’’ has become one of those lenses. For many years our attention has been drawn to the frailties associated with aging as we attempt to alleviate the sufferi...

Improving the Quality of Healthy Aging Care, Participatory Action Research

Objectives: In elderly care provided by health centers, healthy elderly are neglected in care and education. This qualitative study aimed to standardize healthy ageing care. Methods & Materials: This participatory action research was conducted from 1395 to 1397 in Motahari Health Center of Mashhad, with the participation of 11 health care provider, 54 healthy elderly and 54 family members. The...

Community-based interdisciplinary research: introduction to the special issue.

This special issue on community-based interdisciplinary research grew out of the work of the SCRA Interdisciplinary Task Force and an Interdisciplinary Working Conference held at Vanderbilt University in May, 2004. In this introduction to the special issue, the historical context for interdisciplinary underpinnings for community psychology theory, research, action and training is first depicted...

Introduction: Economics and Interdisciplinary Approaches in Migration Research

Introduction: Interdisciplinary model exchanges

The five studies of this special section investigate the role of models and similar representational tools in interdisciplinarity. These studies were all written by philosophers of science, who focused on interdisciplinary episodes between disciplines and sub-disciplines ranging from physics, chemistry and biology to the computational sciences, sociology and economics. The reasons we present th...