Resilience in Aging: Concepts, Research, and Outcomes

by Barbara Resnick

Book Overview

The many significant technological and medical advances of the 21st century cannot overcome the escalating risk posed to older adults by such stressors as pain, weakness, fatigue, depression, anxiety, memory and other cognitive deficits, hearing loss, visual impairment, isolation, marginalization, and physical and mental illness. In order to overcome these and other challenges, and to maintain as high a quality of life as possible, older adults...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441902317
• ISBN13: 9781441902313
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 365 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"