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PREFACE TABLE OF CONTENTS PART 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO INDIVIDUAL AND POPULATION AGING CHAPTER 1 Aging as a Social Process CHAPTER 2 Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Aging CHAPTER 3 Individual Aging: Continuity and Change across the Life Course CHAPTER 4 Population Aging: A Demographic and Geographic Perspective PART 2 THE SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND HEALTH CONTEXTS OF AGING CHAPTER 5 Understanding Older People and Aging Processes Through Theory and Research CHAPTER 6 Social Structures and the Life Course: Social Inequality and Social Change CHAPTER 7 Health Status Transitions and Health Care Systems CHAPTER 8 The Lived Environment: Community and Housing Alternatives in Later Life PART 3 AGING, SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND PUBLIC POLICY CHAPTER 9 Family Ties, Relationships, and Transitions CHAPTER 10 Work, Retirement, and Economic Security CHAPTER 11 Social Networks and Social Participation in Later Life CHAPTER 12 Social and Health Policy for an Aging Population GLOSSARY APPENDIX: INTERNET STUDY RESOURCES INDEX
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