Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging: Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives by Carolyn M. Aldwin
Features:
- a comprehensive approach, with coverage of psychosocial factors that affect physical health in addition to biological aspects of aging, thus providing integrated coverage of information from the fields of biology, psychology, and the social sciences
- coverage of issues in healthcare systems
- case studies in each chapter to augment student understanding with real-life examples
- discussions of methodological issues in some of the research presented to help students become more critical consumers of research and data.