Introduction

SECTION I: CORE DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
Chapter 1 - Aging and Social Change: Toward an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda Stephen J. Cutler

Chapter 2 - Psychology's Contributions to Gerontology Laura L. Carstensen, Jeremy Graff, and Frieder Lang

Chapter 3 - A Social Psychology of the Life Cycle: Interdisciplinary Social Policies, Perceptions, and Prospects Jeffrey Michael Clair, William C. Yoels, and David A. Karp

Chapter 4 - Clinical and Health Services Delivery Research Richard M. Allman, Patricia S. Baker, and Richard S. Maisiak

SECTION II: KEY SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
Chapter 5 - Diversity As a Catalyst for Change E. Percil Stanford and Gwendolyn E. Stanford

Chapter 6 - Intergenerational Relationships and Aging: Families, Cohorts, and Social Change
Vern Bengtson, Timothy Biblarz, Edward Clarke, Roseann Giarrusso, Robert Roberts, Judith Richlin-Klonsky, and Merril Silverstein

Chapter 7 - Interdisciplinary Health Care in the Twenty-First Century: Fantasy or Fundamental? Theresa J. K. Drinka

Chapter 8 - Organizing Chronic Care: The Value of Organization Theory to Gerontology William E. Aaronson, Connie J. Evashwick, and Richard M. Shewchuk

Chapter 9 - Nursing Homes and the Long-Term Care Market Michael A. Morrisey and
Fredric D. Wolinsky

SECTION III: PATIENT CARE CONCERNS
Chapter 10 - Perspectives on Aging: Progress and Priorities for Age-Related Cancers Harvey Jay Cohen

Chapter 11 - Caring for Alzheimer's Disease Patients: Issues of Verbal Communication and Social Interaction Louis Burgio, Rebecca Allen-Burge, Alan Stevens, Linda Davis, and Daniel Marson

Chapter 12 - The Geriatric Medical Encounter Patricia S. Baker, Jeffrey Michael Clair, William C. Yoels, and Richard M. Allman

Chapter 13 - Treatment of Urinary Incontinence: Current Status and Future Directions Kathryn L. Burgio, Patricia S. Goode, R. Edward Varner, L. Keith Lloyd, Donald A. Urban, and Mary G. Umlauf

Chapter 14 - Mobility Impairment and Its Consequences in the Elderly Cynthia Owsley, Richard M. Allman, Marilyn Gossman, Sherron Kell, Richard V. Sims, and Patricia S. Baker

Chapter 15 - Closing Comments: Barriers To and Potential For an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda in Aging Richard M. Allman and Jeffrey M. Clair

Contributors

Index