Guides: AGER 6740: Advanced Social Gerontology: Assigned Course Readings and Films

Films

Streaming films

Positive Images of Aging (2007), Terra Nova films
Life is a Ball (2012), Pilotfish Productions LLC.
Centenarians Tell it Like it is (1998), Matrix Media Incorporated
Aging Successfully: The Psychological Aspects of Growing Old (1997), Davidson Films.

Physical films

Amenta, E., Caren, N., Chiarello, E., & Su, Y. (2010). The political consequences of social movements. Annual Review of Sociology, 36, 287-307.

Balducci, L (2012). Death and dying: What he patient wants. Annals of Oncology, 23 (Suppl. 3), iii56-ii61.

Bengtson, V. L., Elder Jr, G. H., & Putney, N. M. (2012). The life course perspective on ageing: Linked lives, timing, and history. The Cambridge handbook of age and ageing.
Blekesaune, M., & Quadagno, J. (2003). Public Attitudes toward Welfare State Policies: A Comparative Analysis of 24 Nations. European sociological review, 19(5), 415-427.

Bloom, D. E. & Luca, D. L. (2016). The global demography of aging: Facts, explanation, future. Retrieved at: http://ftp.iza.org/dp10163.pdf

Brown, J. R., & Finkelstein, A. (2011). Insuring long-term care in the United States. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 25(4), 119-42.
Campbell, A. L., & Binstock, R. H. (2011). Politics and aging in the United States. In Handbook of aging and the social sciences (pp. 265-279). Academic Press.

Cornwell, B. (2011). Independence through social networks: Bridging potential among older women and men. Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 66(6), 782-794.
Emanuel, E. J., Fairclough, D. L., Wolfe, P., & Emanuel, L. L. (2004). Talking with terminally ill patients and their caregivers about death, dying, and bereavement: is it stressful? Is it helpful?. Archives of internal medicine, 164(18), 1999-2004.

Fingerman, K. L., Cheng, Y. P., Birditt, K., & Zarit, S. (2012). Only as happy as the least happy child: multiple grown children's problems and successes and middle-aged parents’ well-being. Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 67(2), 184-193.
Harris-Kojetin, L., Sengupta, M., Park-Lee, E., Valverde, R., Caffrey, C., Rome, V., & Lendon, J. (2016). Long-term care providers and services users in the United States: data from the National Study of Long-Term Care Providers, 2013-2014. Vital & health statistics. Series 3, Analytical and epidemiological studies, (38), x-xii.

Iecovich, E. (2014). Aging in place: From theory to practice. Anthropological notebooks, 20(1), 21-33.
Kim,J. (2009). Early retirement in the three types of welfare states. Research on Ageing,31(5), 520-548.
Kochman, K. (2015). New elements in modern biological theories of aging. Medical Research Journal, 3(3), 89-99.
Kopczuk, W., Saez, E., & Song, J. (2010). Earnings inequality and mobility in the United States: evidence from social security data since 1937. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 125(1), 91-128.
Jin, K. (2010). Modern biological theories of aging. Aging and disease, 1(2), 72.
Lesthaeghe, R. (2014). The second demographic transition: A concise overview of its development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(51), 18112-18115.
Machina, M., Mpofu, E., Rivera, S., Abah, T. & Knight, R. (in press). Older adults wellbeing. In E. Mpofu (Ed.). Sustainable Community Health: Systems and Practices in Diverse Settings. New York, NY: Palgrave/Macmillan.

McCall, L., & Kenworthy, L. (2009). Americans' social policy preferences in the era of rising inequality. Perspectives on Politics, 7(3), 459-484.

McLaughlin, S. J., Connell, C. M., Heeringa, S. G., Li, L. W., & Roberts, J. S. (2010). Successful aging in the United States: Prevalence estimates from a national sample of older adults. Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 65(2), 216-226.
Meier, E. A., Gallegos, J. V., Thomas, L. P. M., Depp, C. A., Irwin, S. A., & Jeste, D. V. (2016). Defining a good death (successful dying): literature review and a call for research and public dialogue. The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 24(4), 261-271.

Moore, A. R., Bohm-Jordan, M., Amey, F., & Mpofu, E. (2020). Correlates of Single Versus Multiple Functional Disabilities Among Aging Americans: Race/Ethnicity and Region of Birth. Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 6, 2333721420914785.
Mpofu, E. (in press). Older adults health resourcing In L. L. Levers (ed). Trauma counseling theories and interventions. New York, NY: Springer .

Rowe, J. W., Fulmer, T., & Fried, L. (2016). Preparing for better health and health care for an aging population. Jama, 316(16), 1643-1644.

Staudinger, U. M. (2015). Images of aging: Outside and inside perspectives. Annual review of gerontology and geriatrics, 35(1), 187-209.

Silverstein, M., & Giarrusso, R. (2011). Aging individuals, families, and societies: Micro–meso–macro linkages in the life course. In Handbook of sociology of aging (pp. 35-49). New York, NY. Springer,
Shrivastava, S. R. B. L., Shrivastava, P. S., & Ramasamy, J. (2013). Health‑care of Elderly: Determinants, Needs and Services. International journal of preventive medicine, 1(1), 1224-5.
Yang, C., Moore, A. Mpofu, E. Dorstyn, D., Qiwei, L., & Chen, M. (2019). Effectiveness of combined cognitive and physical interventions to enhance functioning in older adults with mild cognitive impairment: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials. The Gerontologist doi:10.1093/geront/gnz149
Whittington, F. J. (2012). Old age in the welfare state. The Gerontologist, 52 (3), 428-437.