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| Pearlsong Press, 2007, $18.95
http://www.amazon.com/Splendid-Seniors-Jack-Adler/dp/1597190071/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272913223&sr=1-1#noop
Adler illustrates the potential that we still have in old age by providing examples of 52 famous people, from Sophocles to Dr. Spock, who made major achievements in their elder years. |
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| http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a919683361~frm=abslink
The authors found that participants performed best when problems were situated in contexts representative of their own age group, so that older adults also outperformed the other age groups on problems set in older adult contexts, but did worse on problems set in younger contexts. |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/65A/3/300.abstract
The authors report that in older women, cognitive decline generally precedes or co-occurs with physical performance decline. |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/66B/5/519.abstract
Basak and Verhaeghen find that, after taking general slowing into account, older adults are as fast as younger adults in locating an item in working memory, but less likely to correctly retrieve items stored outside the focus of attention. |
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| http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a932405956~frm=titlelink
The authors report that memory testing of older vs. younger adults is affected by time of day: older people are more susceptible to poorer performance in the afternoon than younger people are. |
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| http://gerontologist.oxfordjournals.org/content/50/5/646.abstract
Brown finds that cumulative disadvantage and a history of psychiatric problems shape later-life cognition and cognitive decline. |
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| Active in: DC,MD,VA
10225 Montgomery Avenue, Kensington, MD 20895
Telephone:202-895-0230
http://www.gwumc.edu/cahh/index.htm
The Center coordinates a major research program focused on creativity and aging, and houses the Creativity Discovery Corps. |
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| http://gerontologist.gerontologyjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/48/6/711
The authors report on research on how patients experience living with dementia in residential care, and how they cope with it. |
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| http://cognitivelabs.com/global_cog_map1.htm, Free (registration required)
Offers a variety of tests related to brain aging. |
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| http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=browsePA.volumes&jcode=pag
The results suggest that the previously reported BMI–cognition associations in later adulthood could be largely accounted for by prior ability and socioeconomic status, and by the possible influence of these factors on the adoption of health behaviors in adulthood. |
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| 2003
http://www.amazon.com/Survive-Your-Husbands-Midlife-Crisis/dp/B000JMK8UG/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282075502&sr=1-5
Courter and Gaudette offer stories, advice, resources, and a bit of humor. |
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| Active in: DC,MD,VA
10225 Montgomery Avenue, Kensington, MD 20895
Telephone:202-895-0230
http://www.gwumc.edu/cahh/discover/index.htm
Promotes and supports the need for sharing the life stories and special creative talents of older adults. |
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| http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/65A/1/57.abstract
The authors note that the connection referenced in the title of their article is not the result of higher risk of dementia. |
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| American Psychiatric Publishing, 2009, $45.00
http://www.amazon.com/Successful-Cognitive-Emotional-Aging-Colin/dp/1585623512/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1272984416&sr=1-10
Depp and Jeste delves pretty deeply into the research, so this is a bit of a tough read. But it takes a highly positive approach, focusing on prevention and intervention, and summarizing ways people can promote mental and emotional health. |
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| Elsevier Publishing
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622798/description#description
Subtitled, a Journal of Clinical, Experimental, and Theoretical Research, this journal publishes original research articles, theoretical papers, critical reviews, case histories, historical articles, and scholarly notes. |
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| http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=browsePA.volumes&jcode=pag
The authors report that individuals living and dying in less affluent counties report lower late-life well-being, controlling for key individual predictors, including age at death, gender, education, and house-hold income. |
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| Shambhala, 1996, $29.95
http://www.amazon.com/Listening-Midlife-Mark-Gerzon/dp/1570621683/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1282075502&sr=1-3
Gerzon talks about how to turn the midlife crisis into a midlife quest. |
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| http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a919684418~frm=abslink
The findings suggest that age-related slowing in simple repetitive tasks is mainly related to slowing at the stage of perceptuomotor processes, and after 60 years, to additional decline of attention, but apparently not to decision-making deficits. |
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| http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a908222483~db=all~order=page
The authors report that younger and older adults measured about the same in their ability to remember, with no differences caused by inhibition. |
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| http://jag.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/27/4/446
Do stereotypes about the effect of aging concerning cognitive, physical, physiological and psychological performance affect how older adults actually do perform? This review, by Sean Horton et al, of 17 studies suggests that they do |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/66B/5/571.abstract
The authors find that memory losses are associated with increased depression as measured two years later, but not the other way around. They also report that at least part of the connection is biological, realted to vascular issues. |
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| http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/2/243.abstract
The authors discovered over a five year period that the incidence of dementia in Sweden increased for people age 85+, and they speculate that this reflects reduced death rates for people who have risk factors for dementia. |
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| http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2008-07367-004
Murphy and Isaacowitz reviewed 37 previous studies memory and attention tasks and found that few age differences exist. |
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| http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a908218704~db=all~order=page
Pardini and Nichelli found age-related declines in mentalizing skills as early as the fifth decade of life. |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/65B/4/405.abstract
The authors offer a broad-brush overview of the new synthesis between neuroscientific and psychological approaches to cognitive aging. |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/66B/1/75.abstract
The authors report that while younger women are better than older women at recognizing sadness and anger, both groups are equally adept at recognizing happiness, in context. |
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| http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/64B/6/696
The authors found that older adults had more trouble than younger adults connecting emotion content of faces and bodies to voices, and evidence that this is a problem integrating these elements rather than any deficits in individual areas. |
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| http://www.asanet.org/journals/spq/current.cfm
The authors show that both turbulence within the family and chronic health problems accelerate the subjective sense of aging, while changes in family roles generally do not. |
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| http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/fulfillment-any-age/201005/giving-thanks-the-benefits-gratitude, Free
A fairly short essay on the mental health benefits of gratitude along with some ways in which you can foster gratitude in yourself. |
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| August 2011 (Vol. 66B, Suppl. 1)
http://psychsocgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/66B/suppl_1.toc
This entire issue is devoted to this topic. |
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