Aging and diversity; an active learning experience, 2d ed

Reference & Research Book News, May, 2009

Aging and diversity; an active learning experience, 2d ed.

Mehrotra, Chandra and Lisa S. Wagner.

Routledge

2009

426 pages

$95.00

Hardcover

HQ1061

In this updated text, Mehrotra (psychology, College of St. Scholastica) and Wagner (psychology, U. of San Francisco) explore how aging is related to such aspects of diversity as gender, race or ethnicity, religious affiliation and spirituality, social class, rural/urban community location, and sexual orientation. The volume's nine chapters discuss the influence of race and ethnicity on basic psychological processes of sensation, perception, cognition, and memory; the role of diversity in how older people define and maintain health; diversity and disparities in health status; diversity and the living arrangements of older people; work and retirement experiences of older people; the role of spirituality in old age; and the role of diversity in conceptualizations of death and bereavement. The text includes "active learning" exercises such as interviewing diverse elders or analyzing a specific case study, as well as end-of-chapter quizzes.

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