Previous ed.: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [623]-716) and index.

Introduction : human maturity and global aging in cultural context / Jay Sokolovsky -- A global vision of aging, culture and context / Jay Sokolovsky -- Global perspectives on the demography of aging / Kevin Kinsella -- Complaint discourse, aging and caregiving among the Ju/'hoansi of Botswana / Harriet G. Rosenberg -- Beyond the grandmother hypothesis : evolutionary models of human longevity / Michael Gurven and Hillard Kaplan -- From successful aging to conscious aging / Harry Moody -- Is killing necessarily murder? Moral questions surrounding assisted suicide and death / Anthony Glascock -- Menopause : a biocultural event / Yewoubdar Beyene -- Web book : "Culture and the meaning of a good old age" / by Christine L. Fry et al. -- The life-course and intergenerational ties in cultural and global context / Jay Sokolovsky -- Elders, ancients, ancestors and the modern life course / Maria G. Cattell and Steven M. Albert -- Images of aging : cultural representations of later life / Mike Featherstone and Mike Hepworth -- When old is new : cultural spaces and symbolic meaning in late life / Jennie Keith -- Global perspectives on widowhood and aging / Maria G. Cattell -- Web book: "Exchange and reciprocity among two generations of Japanese and American women" / by Hiroko Akiyama, Toni C. Antonucci and Ruth Campbell -- Web book : "Grandparenting styles : the contemporary Native American experience" / by Joan Weibel-Orlando -- Aging, globalization and societal transformations / Jay Sokolovsky -- Globalization and the risks of aging / Christine L. Fry -- The new realities of aging in contemporary China : coping with the decline in family care / Hong Zhang -- Aging proletariats in a twenty-first century indigenous Mexican community / Jay Sokolovsky -- Transforming the cultural scripts for aging and elder care in Japan / Brenda R. Jenike and John W. Traphagan -- Standing up for others : the AMIGOS volunteer model for working with elders in Peru / Dena Shenk and Joan Mahon -- Danish home care policy and the family : implications for the United States / Mary Stuart and Eigil Boll Hansen -- The ethnic dimension in aging : culture, context and creativity / Jay Sokolovsky -- Ethnic elders and the limits of family support in a globalizing world / Jay Sokolovsky -- Losing, using and crafting spaces for aging : Muslim Iranian American seniors in California's Santa Clara Valley / Mary Elaine Hegland and associates -- Aging in exile : family support and emotional well-being among older Cuban immigrants in the United States / Iveris L. Martinez -- Ethnic and cross-cultural perspectives on custodial grandparenting / Bert Hayslip Jr. -- African Americans growing older in Chicago : living in a time and place of change / Madelyn Iris -- Web book : "Age of wisdom : elderly black women in family and church" / by Jane W. Peterson -- Web book : "The social and cultural context of adaptive aging by southeast Asian elders" / by Barbara W.K. Yee -- Web book : "Dementia in cultural context : development and decline of a caregivers support group in a Latin population" / by Neil Henderson --

Families, communities and elderscapes : transforming cultural spaces for aging / Jay Sokolovsky -- The structural vulnerability of older people in a matrilineal society : the Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia / Edi Indrizal, Philip Kreager and Elisabeth Schröder-Butterfill -- Growing older in world cities : benefits and burdens / Michael K. Gusmano -- Elder residences and outsourced sons : remaking aging in cosmopolitan India / Sarah Lamb -- Aging in the hood : creating and sustaining elder-friendly environments / Philip B. Stafford -- Elders, urban community greening and the rise of civic ecology / Jay Sokolovsky -- Spaces of age, snowbirds and the gerontology of mobility : the elderscapes of Charlotte County, Florida / Stephen Katz -- Web book : "Social support systems of rural older women : a comparison of the United States and Denmark" / by Dena Shenk and Kitter Christiansen -- Web book photo essay : "Where are the bones in their noses? Community aged in North American RV camps and in Papua New Guinea" / by Dorothy Counts and David Counts -- Web book : "An organization for the elderly, by the elderly : a senior center in the United States" / by Yohko Tsuji -- Web book : "One thousand points of blight : old, female and homeless in New York City" / by Jay Sokolovsky -- The quest for gerontopia : culture and health in late life / Jay Sokolovsky -- Exceptional longevity and the quest for healthy aging : insights from the Okinawa Centenarian Study / D. Craig Willcox ... [et al.] -- Eldertopia : a vision for old age in a new world / William Thomas -- La cura degli nostri cari anziani : family and community elder care roles in contemporary Italy / Joan Weibel-Orlando -- Battling a new epidemic : American Indian elders and diabetes / Linda Carson Henderson -- Brain failure, late life and culture in Japan / John W. Traphagan -- The global Florida : long-term care in postindustrial countries / Larry Polivka -- Beyond the institution : dementia care and the promise of the Green House Project / Athena McLean -- Between humans and ghosts : the decrepit elderly in a Polynesian society / Judith C. Barker.

"The new edition of Sokolovsky's unique text explores a wide variety of cultural issues worldwide that impact aging issues, from perception and valuation of the elderly to homelessness, caregiving, assisted suicide, psychological support, and responses to those with dementia." "This third edition of The Cultural Context of Aging includes twenty-five new chapters as well as special student resources, data from the most recent studies, a guide to Internet sites, and a bibliography of related readings. Especially useful for students across majors from anthropology and psychology to social work, nursing, and medicine, the new edition fully updates and expands on the award-winning second edition."--BOOK JACKET.