Aging
Tenth Edition
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Aging
Concepts and Controversies
Tenth Edition
Harry R. Moody
Fielding Graduate University
Jennifer R. Sasser
Portland Community College
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Moody, Harry R., author. | Sasser, Jennifer R., author.
Title: Aging: concepts and controversies / Harry R. Moody, Fielding Graduate University, Jennifer R. Sasser, Portland Community College.
Description: Tenth Edition. | Thousand Oaks,: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2020. | Revised edition of the authors’ Aging, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2020009404 | ISBN 978-1-5443-7171-9 (paperback) | ISBN 978-1-5443-7170-2 (epub) | ISBN 978-1-5443-7169-6 (epub) | ISBN 978-1-5443-7168-9 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Gerontology—United States. | Aging—United States.
Classification: LCC HQ1064.U5 M665 2020 | DDC 305.26—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020009404
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List of Boxed Features
Focus on Practice
What Should We Call Older Adults? 3
Reminiscence and Life Review 45
Conscious Aging 56
Health Promotion 79
Older-Adult Education 113
Managed Care 191
Long-Term-Care Insurance 225
Adult Protective Services 260
Advance Directives 287
Intergenerational Programs 363
Investment Decisions for Retirement Income 397
Retirement and Life Planning 441
Aging Boomers in the Workplace 471
The Multigenerational Workplace 471
Later-Life Entrepreneurship 471
Career Opportunity in the Silver Industries 492
Focus on the Future
“I Dated a Cyborg!” 96
Late-Life Learning in the Information Society 131
Genetic Screening for Alzheimer’s Disease? 242
Inheritance in an Aging Society 272
Neighborhood Suicide Clinics? 303
Walled Retirement Villages? 374
Two Scenarios for the Future of Social Security 417
The U.S. Wisdom Corps? 455
60th Anniversary of Woodstock 481
Everything Money Can Buy 503
Urban Legends of Aging
“Respect for elders was higher in the past.” 11
“Religion is good for your health.” 40
“Antiaging medicine today is making rapid progress.” 72
“Aging is not a disease.” 73
“Drinking red wine will make you live longer.” 80
“We lose a million neurons every day.” 111
“We’re living much longer today.” 139
“Prevention and health promotion are the way to save money in health care.” 142
“Health care costs are high because we spend most of the money on old people in the last year of life.” 184
“The 2010 health care law introduced ‘death panels’ and rationing of Medicare.” 187
“Only 5% of older people live in nursing homes.” 217
“Home care is cheaper than nursing homes.” 222
“We need more regulation of nursing homes to prevent elder abuse.” 252
“Older people