Stereotypes about “the old person” perhaps misrepresent reality most enormously with respect to personality. Attitudinal studies such as those cited earlier have found that elderly ...
It is easier to describe an individual’s functional status, than to ascribe this status confidently to “aging.” Gerontologists have learned to be cautious in offering ...
Hardships, deprivations, and unequal access to social resources show race-linked patterns from infancy onward. Differential risk factors can both reduce the chances of surviving into ...
Many sources of anxiety in the later adult years are mediated by genderrelated experiences. Survival is itself correlated with sex/gender: the differential survival gap favoring ...
Psychoanalytic theories of anxiety The deeper we penetrate into the study of mental processes the more we recognize their abundance and complexity. A number of ...
History of anxiety The English word ‘anxiety’ has venerable roots. Like its European cognates angoisse (French), Angst (German), angoscia (Italian), and angustia (Spanish), anxiety originates ...