AGING. CONCEPTS AND CONTROVERSIES. 10TH EDITION

Aging: Concepts and Controversies is structured to encourage a style of teaching and learning that goes beyond conveying facts and methods. This innovative text focuses on controversies and questions rather than on assimilating facts or creating a single "correct" view about aging or older people. Drawing on their extensive expertise, authors Harry R. Moody and Jennifer R. Sasser first provide an overview of aging in three domains: aging over the life course, health care, and socioeconomic trends. Each section then includes data and conceptual frameworks, helping readers to make sense of the controversies and understand their origin, engage in critical thinking, and develop their own views. The Tenth Edition of this hallmark textbook includes amplified discussions focused on differences, diversity, structural inequalities, and inclusion, as well as contemporary issues, including climate change and immigration.

NEW TO THIS EDITION
• A stronger link between concepts and controversies across three primary domains—the life course, health care, and socioeconomic trends.
• Themes of aging as a process over the entire life course, large-scale social and economic trends impacting each generation, and ways aging can be shaped by social inequality are enhanced.
• Amplified discussions focused on differences, diversity, structural inequalities, and inclusion, as well as contemporary issues such as climate change and immigration, are included.
• A greater focus on critical thinking in gerontology found though the integration of thought experiments in each chapter.
• New Thinking Critically boxes provide students with an opportunity to reflect on, think critically about, and apply key ideas by exploring how aging is increasingly a global phenomenon with lessons of international significance.
• Cited information is updated and reflects the most recent data, research, perspectives, and issues available.

KEY FEATURES
• This text embraces current controversies in the broad area of aging, including health care, socioeconomic trends, and the life course.
• Controversy 11 (Aging Boomers: Boom or Bust?) focuses on a timely subject, presenting arguments on both the “boom” and the “bust” sides of the issue along with carefully selected readings.
• Focus on Practice and Focus on the Future sections pique students' interests and help them apply concepts to real-world issues.
• An Urban Legends in Aging feature explores common stereotypes about aging and the aging population.
• Global Perspective sections provide examples of lived experiences and social policies around the world.