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Covering a wide range of topics, this collection of original essays deals with the consequences and challenges of our growing aging population on society. It emphasizes aging as a developmental process while addressing the future of the practice of geropsychiatry and geriatric psychotherapy. This book serves as a valuable resource to guide clinical training, practice, and research on aging into the next century and beyond.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A collection of 14 studies of language and communicative abilities; identity; and social norms, values, and practices in old age. The topics include the relationship between memory and language in the dementia spectrum of depression, Alzheimer Syndrome, and normal aging; Georgia O'Keefe as a case s

This book examines the challenges produced by the aging of American society and the change in the American family system.