Handbook of the Psychology of Aging

K. Warner Schaie holds an appointment as affiliate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. He is also the Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Human Development and Psychology at the Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. in clinical and developmental psychology from the University of Washington, an honorary Dr. Phil. from the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany, and an honorary Sc.D. degree from West Virginia University. He received the Kleemeier Award for Distinguished Research Contributions and the Distinguished Career Contribution to Gerontology Award from the Gerontological Society of America, the MENSA lifetime career award, and the Distinguished Scientific Contributions award from the American Psychological Association. He is a past president of the APA Division of Adult Development and Aging and currently represents that Division on the APA Council of Representatives. He is author or editor of more than 60 books including the textbook Adult Development and Aging (5th edition, with S.L. Willis) and of all previous editions of the Handbook of the Psychology of Aging (with J.E. Birren or S.L. Willis). He has directed the Seattle Longitudinal Study of cognitive aging since 1956 and is the author of more than 300 journal articles and chapters on the psychology of aging. His current research interest is in the life course of adult intelligence, its antecedents and modifiability, the impact of cognitive behavior in midlife upon the integrity of brain structures in old age, the early detection of risk for dementia, as well as methodological issues in the developmental sciences.

"I particularly liked the section that looks at incomplete data and attrition, as the authors provide ways of resolving these issues…Overall, the handbook aims to provide a foundation for an understanding of the issues of ageing for both the individual and the wider society and it achieves this through the wide range of topics covered." --Ageing and Society, May 2013

• Part I: Concepts, Theory, and Methods in the Psychology of Aging 1. Concepts and theory in the psychology of aging Roger Dixon, University of Alberta 2. Methodology, attrition, meta-analysis and data imputation Emilio Ferrer, University of California at Davis 3. Historical influences on aging and behavior K. Warner Schaie, University of WashingtonPart II. Neuroscience, cognition and aging 4. Executive function and cognitive aging Mary Lucscz, Flinders University 5. Structural imaging and cognitive aging Karen Rodrigue and Kristen Kennedy, U of Texas at Dallas6. Cognitive aging and neurogenetics William Kremen, UCSD and Michael Lyons, Boston University 7. Neuroplasticity of cognitive function with age Denise Park, University of Texas at Dallas 8. Memory: Normal and pathological changes with age Lars Nyberg, University of Umea and Lars Bäckman, Karolinska Institutet 9. Complex decision making Ellen Peters, Decision Research and University of Oregon 10. Cognitive interventions Elizabeth Stein-Morrow, University of IllinoisPart III: Social and Health Factors that Impact Aging11. Control, health and aging Margie Lachman, Bradndeis University 12. Stress and aging David Almeida, Pennsylvania State University 13. Health disparities, social class and aging Keith Whitfield. Duke University 14 . Adult Inter-generational relations Karen Fingerman, Purdue University 15. Wisdom, aging and wellbeing Monika Ardelt, University of Florida.16. Age stereotypes and aging Mary Lee Hummert, University of Kansas 17, Communications, elderspeak, and aging Howard Giles, University of California, Santa Barbara 18. Work and aging Ursula Staudinger, Jacobs University, Bremen 19. Emotion and aging Susan T. Charles 20. Psychopathology, grief and aging, Susan Whitbourne, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 21. Psychological assessment of emotional distress, personality disorders, personality and aging Barry Edelstein, West Virginia University, and Dan Segal, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs 22. Neuropsychological assessment of the dementias of late life Jennifer Manly, Columbia University, Stephanie Consentino and Adam Brickma 23. Caregiving and the older caregiver Bob Knight, Universitty of Southern California 24. Legal competency assessment and geroforensic psychology Jenifer Moye, Harvard Medical School