Successful Aging: Perspectives from the Behavioral Sciences Book

Foreword; Preface;

1. Psychological perspectives on successful aging: the model of selective optimization with compensation;
2. Medical perspectives upon successful aging;
3. Successful aging in a post-retired society;
4. The optimization of cognitive functioning in old age: predictions based on cohort-sequential and longitudinal data;
5. The optimization of episodic remembering in old age;
6. Peak performance and age: an examination of peak performance in sports;
7. Personal control over development and quality of life perspectives in adulthood;
8. Successful mastery of bereavement and widowhood: a life-course perspective;
9. The Bonn longitudinal study of aging: coping, life adjustment, and life satisfaction;
10. Risk and protective factors in the transition to young adulthood;
11. Avoiding negative life outcomes: evidence from a forty-five year study;
12. Developing behavioural genetics and successful aging; Name index; Subject index.