Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Wellbeing in Later Life Volume IV

445 Pages·2014·2.406 MB·English

by  Thomas B. L. Kirkwood, Cary L. Cooper

Wellbeing in Later Life
Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide, Volume IV
Wellbeing: A Complete Reference Guide
Volume I: Wellbeing in Children and Families
EditedbySusanH.LandryandCaryL.Cooper
Volume II: Wellbeing and the Environment
EditedbyRachelCooper,ElizabethBurton,andCaryL.Cooper
Volume III: Work and Wellbeing
EditedbyPeterY.ChenandCaryL.Cooper
Volume IV: Wellbeing in Later Life
EditedbyThomasB.L.KirkwoodandCaryL.Cooper
Volume V: The Economics of Wellbeing
EditedbyDavidMcDaidandCaryL.Cooper
Volume VI: Interventions and Policies to Enhance Wellbeing
EditedbyFeliciaA.HuppertandCaryL.Cooper
Wellbeing in Later Life
Wellbeing: A Complete Reference
Guide, Volume IV
Edited by Thomas B. L. Kirkwood and
Cary L. Cooper
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Contents of this Volume
AbouttheEditors vii
Contributors ix
FullContentsofWellbeing:ACompleteReferenceGuide xi
IntroductiontoWellbeing:ACompleteReferenceGuide xxv
1 Introduction:WellbeinginLaterLife 1
CaryL.CooperandThomasB.L.Kirkwood
Part1 Longevity and Wellbeing 7
2 TheChangingDemographicContextofAging 9
RolandRauandJamesW.Vaupel
3 BiologicalDeterminantsandMalleabilityofAging 31
ThomasB.L.Kirkwood
4 WellbeingasExperiencedbytheVeryOld 53
CarolJaggerandKatieBrittain
Part2 Factors Influencing Wellbeing 67
5 PsychologicalWellbeinginLaterLife 69
KateM.BennettandLauraK.Soulsby
6 NutritionandLifelongWellbeing 91
C.AlexandraMunroandJohnC.Mathers
7 PhysicalActivity,Exercise,andAging 105
GrainneS.Gorman,JoshWood,and
MichaelI.Trenell
8 CapabilityandIndependencyinLaterLife 125
JohnBond
ContentsofthisVolume
9 CombatingIsolationThroughTechnologyinOlderPeople 145
PeterGore
10 WellbeingandVitalityinLaterLife:TheRoleoftheConsumer
Industry 165
MichaelCattandFransJ.G.vanderOuderaa
11 EducationanditsRoleinWellbeing 181
JimSoulsby
Part3 Wellbeing at the End of Life 197
12 TheThreattoWellbeingfromCognitiveDecline 199
LouiseRobinsonandLynneCorner
13 WhenVitalityMeetsLongevity:NewStrategiesforHealthin
LaterLife 219
RudiG.J.Westendorp,BertMulder,A.J.WillemvanderDoes,
andFransJ.G.vanderOuderaa
14 MaintainingWellbeingThroughtheEndofLife 235
JulianC.Hughes
Part4 Comparative Perspectives on Wellbeing 253
15 Cultures,Aging,andWellbeing 255
NgaireKerse,MereKe¯pa,RuthTeh,andLornaDyall
16 WellbeingintheOldestOldandCentenariansinJapan 275
YasuyukiGondo,YasumichiArai,andNobuyoshiHirose
17 WellbeinginLaterLifeinEighteenth-CenturyEngland 287
HelenYallop
Appendix
ForesightMentalCapitalandWellbeingProject:Mental
CapitalThroughLife:FutureChallenges 299
ThomasB.L.Kirkwood,JohnBond,CarlMay,IanMcKeith,
andMin-MinTeh
Index 389
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About the Editors
ThomasB.L.Kirkwood,CBE,isDeanforAgeingatNewcastleUniversity
andDirectoroftheNewcastleInitiativeforChangingAge,havingpreviously
been Director of the Institute for Ageing and Health from 2004 to 2011.
EducatedinbiologyandmathematicsatCambridgeandOxford,heworked
at the National Institute for Medical Research, where he formed and led
a new research division, until in 1993 he became Professor of Biological
GerontologyattheUniversityofManchester.Hisresearchisfocusedonthe
basicscienceofagingandonunderstandinghowgenesaswellasnongenetic
factors, such as nutrition, influence longevity and health in old age. He is a
FellowoftheAcademyofMedicalSciences,FellowoftheRoyalCollegeof
Physicians of Edinburgh, and Honorary Fellow of the Faculty and Institute
of Actuaries. He was European President (Biology) of the International
AssociationofGeriatricsandGerontology,chairedtheU.K.ForesightTask
Force on “Healthcare and Older People” in 1995, led the project on
“Mental Capital Through Life” within the recent Foresight program on
Mental Capital and Well-Being, was Specialist Adviser to the House of
Lords Science and Technology Select Committee inquiry into “Ageing:
Scientific Aspects” and has served on the councils of the Biotechnology
and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and of the Academy of
MedicalSciences.HeisaneditorofMechanismsofAgeingandDevelopment
andservesontheeditorialboardsofeightotherjournals.Hehaspublished
more than 300 scientific papers and won several international prizes for
his research. His books include the award-winning Time of Our Lives: The
Science of Human Ageing, Chance, Development and Ageing (with Caleb
Finch), and The End of Age based on his BBC Reith Lectures in 2001.
In 2009 he was awarded a CBE by the Queen for his services to medical
science.
Cary L. Cooper, CBE, is Distinguished Professor of Organizational
Psychology and Health at Lancaster University Management School,
U.K. He is the author/editor of over 150 books, has written over 400
AbouttheEditors
scholarly articles for academic journals, and is a frequent contributor to
national newspapers, TV, and radio. He is the Chair of the Academy of
Social Sciences (comprised of 46 learned societies in the social sciences,
with nearly 90,000 social scientists), President of RELATE, President
of the Institute of Welfare, and immediate past President of the British
Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy. He was the Founding
President of the British Academy of Management, Founding Editor of the
Journal of Organizational Behavior, and is currently Editor-in-Chief of the
international scholarly journal Stress & Health. He has received honorary
doctorates from a number of universities (e.g., University of Sheffield,
Aston University, and Heriot-Watt University). He has been awarded
honorary fellowships by the Royal College of Physicians, Royal College of
Physicians of Ireland, British Psychological Society, European Academy of
Occupational Health Psychology, and Institute of Occupational Safety and
Health. In 2010 Professor Cooper was awarded the Lord Dearing Lifetime
Achievement Award at the The Times Higher Education Awards for his
distinguishedcontributiontohighereducation.Hewasleadscientistonthe
U.K. Government’s Foresight program on Mental Capital and Wellbeing,
which had a major impact in the United Kingdom and Europe. Professor
Cooper was Chair of the Global Agenda Council on Chronic Diseases in
the World Economic Forum in 2009–2010. In 2012, HR magazine voted
him the Fourth Most Influential HR Thinker. In 2001, he was awarded a
CBEbytheQueenforhiscontributiontooccupationalhealth.
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