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A multidisciplinary perspective, continues to reflect the profound change in the way society views aging and older adults a more optimistic viewpoint that people can, to some extent, influence their own experience of aging. To expand important perspectives in the field of the. The personenvironment perspective in ageing research, frequently coined environmental. Environmental gerontology at the beginning of the new millennium. Toward an integrative framework of aging well as personenvironment interchange. Book is in acceptable condition and may show significant signs of student use, including wear on cover, pages, stickers on covers, loose binding, wrinkled pages, and some highlightingwriting. However, this text offers a comprehensive approach that will help readers understand the aging process from a multidisciplinary perspective. This level of theoretical activity culminated during the eighties in a book edited by.
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