Aging and Mental Health

Positive Psychosocial and Biomedical Approaches

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Author:

Butler, Robert Neil
Lewis, Myrna I.
Sunderland, Trey

ISBN:

978-1-4164-0000-4

Publication Date:

Jan 1998

Publisher:

PRO-ED, Incorporated

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $65.00

Book Description:

This text is extremely well-respected in social work, geriatric medicine, nursing, and related disciplines for its comprehensive coverage of the aging process and its effects on mental health. This text sets out the nature and problems of old age, including the position of older people in their families, and then explores some common emotional problems and psychiatric disorders that can affect the elderly. Specific chapter coverage focuses on race, ethnicity, gender, crime, alcoholism,...
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Book Details

Pages:	530
Detailed Subjects:	Psychology / Developmental / Adulthood & Aging Medical / Geriatrics

Author Biography

Butler, Robert Neil (Author)

Robert Neil Butler was born on January 21, 1927. He graduated from Columbia University. He was a physician, gerontologist, and psychiatrist. He was a lead investigator of one of the first interdisciplinary, comprehensive, longitudinal studies of healthy community-residing older persons, which resulted in the book Human Aging. He founded the National Institute on Aging and the first department of geriatrics at a U.S. medical school. In 1976, he won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for Why Survive?: Being Old in America. His other works include Aging and Mental Health: Positive Psychosocial and Biomedical Approaches, Life in an Older America, The New Love and Sex after 60 and The Longevity Revolution. He also wrote over 300 scientific and medical articles. He died of leukemia on July 4, 2010 at the age of 83.

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