Gerontology: Perspectives and Issues

by Kenneth F. Ferraro, Janet M. Wilmoth, Kenneth Ferraro

Book Overview

This newest edition of a core graduate level textbook has added six new chapters to further enrich the "gerontological imagination," and encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the study of aging. Academically rigorous yet clear and accessible, the text provides the most current findings from leading gerontological researchers and practitioners. New and updated chapters examine biology, exercise science/nutrition, communication science, geriatric...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826109659
• ISBN13: 9780826109651
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"