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. Sherry L. Willis is a research professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. She previously held an appointment as professor of Human Development at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research has focused on age-related cognitive changes in later adulthood. In particular she is known for her work on behavioral interventions to remediate and enhance cognitive performance in community-dwelling normal elderly. She was a principal investigator on the ACTIVE study, a randomized controlled trial to examine the effects of cognitive interventions in the maintenance of everyday functioning in at-risk community-dwelling elderly, funded by NIA. She has been the codirector of the Seattle Longitudinal Study. In addition to her cognitive intervention research, she has conducted programmatic research on changes in everyday problem-solving competence in the elderly and cognitive predictors of competence. She and colleagues have developed several measures of Everyday Problem Solving. She is the co-author of the textbook Adult Development and Aging (with K.W. Schaie, now in its 5th edition). She has edited more than ten volumes on various aspects of adult development and cognition and has authored over a hundred publications in adult development. She has served as President of Division 20, Adult Development and Aging, American Psychological Association. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Sweden. She received a Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement and the Pauline Schmitt Russell Distinguished Research Career Award from the Pennsylvania State University, and the Paul and Margret Baltes award from Division 20 of the American Psychological Association. She currently has funding from NIA for a twenty-year follow-up of the ACTIVE randomized cognitive training trial and funding to archive the Seattle Longitudinal Study.

Foreword Preface

Part I Concepts, Theories, Methods

1. History of adult cognitive aging research K. WARNER SCHAIE

2. Measurement and models for multi-timescale psychological processes in aging research STEVEN M. BOKER AND JOHN R. NESSELROADE

Part II Bio-psychosocial Factors in Aging

3. Functional connectivity in aging FRANZISKUS LIEM, LINDA GEERLIGS, JESSICA S. DAMOISEAUX AND DANIEL S. MARGULIES

4. Memory: behavior and neural basis CINDY LUSTIG AND ZIYONG LIN

5. Executive functions and neurocognitive aging PATRICIA A. REUTER-LORENZ, SARA B. FESTINI AND TIFFANY K. JANTZ

6. Pain in older adults ANN L. HORGAS AND AMANDA F. ELLIOTT

7. Sleep, neurocognition, and aging, including secular trends in older adult sleep A. CATHERINE MCCALL AND F. NATHANIELWATSON

8. The final challenge of aging: Death and dying MOLLY MAXFIELD, EVA-MARIA STELZER AND JEFF GREENBERG

Part III Behavioral Processes

9. Smartphones, robots, and social media: aging with communication technologies CHENG CHEN, MICHAEL L. KRIEGER AND S. SHYAM SUNDAR

10. Self-perceptions and awareness of aging: past, present, and future MANFRED DIEHL, ALLYSON F. BROTHERS AND HANS-WERNERWAHL

11. Gender diversity in later life JENNIFER L. O’ BRIEN AND SUSAN KRAUSS WHITBOURNE

12. Financial decision-making and capacity in older adults DANIEL C. MARSON, DEBORAH L. KERR AND DONALD G. MCLAREN

13. The older worker: gender and age discrimination in the workplace STEPHANE P. FRANCIOLI AND MICHAEL S. NORTH

14. Remembering the personal past across adulthood NICOLE ALEA, SUSAN BLUCK AND SHUBAM SHARMA

Part IV Complex Processes   15. Psychological assessment of neurocognitive disorders BRIAN P. YOCHIM AND BENJAMIN T. MAST

16. Family care exchanges across the life span CYNTHIA A. BERG, CAITLIN S. KELLY AND REBECCA L. UTZ

17. Stress, coping, and aging CAROLYN M. ALDWIN, LORIENA YANCURA AND HYUNYUP LEE

18. Resilience in midlife and aging KAARIN J. ANSTEY AND ROGER A. DIXON

19. Successful aging: an obscure but obvious construct RACHEL PRUCHNO

20. Cognitive functioning and dementia prevalence in baby boomers and adjacent cohorts: Longitudinal and cohort effects SHERRY L. WILLIS AND K. WARNER SCHAIE