Models of Cognitive Aging
Models of Cognitive Aging
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认知老化模型
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2000
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通讯作者：
E. Maylor
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T. Perfect;E. Maylor
我们生活在一个老龄化社会，人们的寿命更长，出生率的下降意味着超过退休年龄的人口比例正在稳步增加。人口老龄化对保健服务和护理的提供有相当大的影响。因此，研究人员、医疗从业者和决策者对老年人、他们的能力以及他们认知功能的变化越来越感兴趣。这本书提供了一个最新的方法论和理论问题在认知老化的分钟帐户。作为心理学辩论系列的一部分，它阐述了围绕认知老化中目前有争议的问题的争论。理解认知变化的适当方法是什么？要了解年龄相关变化的模式，需要多少因素？这些因素可能是什么？该领域的主要研究人员在一系列章节中探讨了主题和论点。每个贡献者都提供了他们对如何最好地理解认知老化的看法，他们共同涵盖了广泛的认知功能，包括语言使用，认知减慢和记忆丧失。每一章都是对该领域工作的最新回顾。总的来说，这些章节形成了一个连贯的理论辩论，通过它读者将了解认知老化研究的动态性质，以及这项研究在未来的发展方向。认知老化模型将是任何对老年人及其认知能力感兴趣的人的宝贵资源。
We live in an ageing society, where people are living longer, and where decreases in the birth rate mean that the proportion of the population above retirement age is steadily increasing. An ageing population has considerable implications for health services and care provision. Consequently there is a growing interest among researchers, medical practitioners, and policy makers in older adults, their capabilities, and the changes in their cognitive functioning. This book offers an up-to-the-minute account of the latest methodological and theoretical issues in cognitive ageing. Part of the Debates in Psychology series, it sets out the arguments surrounding the currently controversial questions in cognitive ageing. What is the appropriate methodology for understanding cognitive change? How many factors are necessary to understand the patterns of age-related change? What might these factors be? The topics and arguments are explored in a series of chapters by the leading researchers in the field. Each contributor offers their view of how cognitive ageing can be best understood, and together they cover a broad range of cognitive functions including language use, cognitive slowing, and memory loss. Each of the chapters stands alone as the latest review of work in the area. Taken together, the chapters form a coherent theoretical debate through which the reader will learn about the dynamic nature of cognitive ageing research, and about the direction this research will be taking in the future. Models of Cognitive Aging will be an invaluable resource for anyone with an interest in the elderly, and in their cognitive abilities.