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Ageism

Ageism-Curriculum Module

Aging General

The Aging Process-Curriculum Module

Architecture

Blueprint for Aging

Caregiving

Loving Journeys: Caring for an Aging Parent

Death & Dying

Deadly Disputes Understanding Death in Europe, Japan and North America

Decision-Making in the Critically Ill: Lessons from the SUPPORT Study

Undertaking, Modern Rites of Grief, and the Future of Death

Demography

Public Costs of Long Life and Low Fertility: Will the Baby Boomers Break the Budget?

Disease

Aging and the Degenerative Diseases of Aging: Understanding Mechanisms and Increasing Longevity

Painting from Memory: Aging Dementia, and the Art of Willem de Kooning

Disability

Syllabus: Social Work with Persons with Disabilities

Diversity

Aging and Ethnicity-Curriculum Module

The Health of Mexican American Elderly

Driving

IDS 114B: Advances in Aging, Mobility & Traffic Safety: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Spring Semester, 2001, 15 Lectures (digital video)

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Health Promotion and Disease Prevention with Older Adults

Humanities

Telling Stories--the workings of reminiscence and of life review

International

The Future of Health & Social Services for Older Adults in Great Britain

Aging and the Health Care System in Cuba (digital video presentation)
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Law, Ethics & Aging

Syllabus: Law, Ethics & Aging

Long Term Care

Syllabus: Long Term Care Policy

Mental Health

Syllabus: Aging and Mental Health Policy

Psychology

Emotion in the Elderly and in Late-life Marriages

Research in Aging

Syllabus: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Aging Research

Syllabus: Research Methods in Gerontology

Suffering

Syllabus: Literature and Medicine - Suffering

Women

Women & Aging-Curriculum Module