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Religion, Health, and Aging: A Review and Theoretical Integration by Mona Smiley, Ploch Gonzales, Harold G. Koenig (Hardback, 1988)

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This book presents a comprehensive and scientific review of the research during the past fifty years on the relationship between religion and health in later life. It will help professionals gain awareness of the importance of religious and spiritual variables among older people. The widespread interest in religion among today's elderly suggests its value as a coping strategy and personal resource. Unlike any other in the field, this volume synthesizes both past research and new findings, including recent unpublished data, into a model of how religion might interact with other variables to help determine adaptation to stress in later life. Religion, Health, and Aging provides substantial contributions to both the applied and academic aspects of religion and aging. With over 500 references this work brings together research findings from a wide variety of disciplines and organizes them in an easily retrievable format. The introduction provides a theoretical framework and model of interactions. Subsequent chapters address the relationship between religious beliefs and attitudes and both mental and physical health. Next investigated are the impacts on health of private religious activity, community religious involvement, and personal religious experience. A model that demonstrates how religion might interact with stress and illness in later life is presented. Actual cases exemplify the role of religion in the lives of older people facing life-threatening illness. Perspectives from the disciplines of social gerontology, geriatric medicine, and the clergy are analyzed. A review is presented of the implications of research findings for professionals working with older persons. A detailed bibliography, list of publications, and organizations to contact for further information, provide access to further resources. The appendix contains a review of the development and validation of the Springfield Religiosity Schedule, an instrument measuring religious activities, attitudes, and beliefs of the elderly. Religion, Health, and Aging will serve as a centralized resource of significant value to gerontologists, physicians in psychiatry and medicine, nurses, educators, therapists, clinical psychologists, social workers, the clergy, and others whose professional and personal lives touch older people.

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Publisher
Greenwood Press, ABC-Clio
ISBN-10
031326208x
ISBN-13
9780313262081
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94879641

Product Key Features

Author
Harold G. Koenig, Ploch Gonzales, Mona Smiley
Format
Laminated Cover, Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine: Textbooks & Study Guides
Type
Textbook

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Weight
523g
Height
234mm
Width
156mm

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Westport
Spine
15mm
Issn
0732-085x
Series Part/Volume Number
No. 10
Series Title
Contributions to the Study of Aging
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
HAROLD G. KOENIG is a Geriatric Medicine Research and Clinical Fellow at the Duke University Center for Aging and Human Development and the GRECC VA Medical Center. MONA SMILEY is Assistant Professor of Adult Education, Incarnate Word College. JO ANN PLOCH GONZALES has a Master's degree in Education from Incarnate Word College.
Date of Publication
14/12/1988
Genre
Medicine: Textbooks & Study Guides
Country of Publication
United States

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