INTEREST GROUP SESSION—ENVIRONMENTAL GERONTOLOGY: PRECARIOUS AGING IN PLACE? CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON AGING IN CONTEXTS OF INSTABILITY

The School of Public Health Gerontology Interest Group Presents Research on Aging Showcase

Aging in Place within Elderly People in the Southwest Iran

Introduction: Iran and its aged society are facing some issues that significantly impact the current social structures in Iran. It will continue to do so on their growing as elderly with negative impacts on communal relations and unjust distribution of resources based on a gender basis that will affect the aging in place (AiP). The study aims to investigate the AiP within aged people and modify...

Successful aging: The role of cognitive gerontology.

This commentary explores the relationships between the construct of successful aging and the experimental psychology of human aging-cognitive gerontology. What can or should cognitive gerontology contribute to understanding, defining, and assessing successful aging? Standards for successful aging reflect value judgments that are culturally and historically situated. Fundamentally, they address ...

Strategies for Aging in Place

Social Gerontology. Part 1. Aging and Intelligence

A previous essay discussed the biology of prolongevity, including genetic, cellular, immunological, neuroendocrine, and free radical theories on aging. 1That essay also addressed the question of why aging evolved and what purpose it serves. At that time, I noted that the social and economic consequences of a major breakthrough in aging research would be tremendous. Many of the theories discusse...