The Many Faces of Health Competence and Well-Being in Old Age

he main aim of the book is to provide an interdisciplinary treatment of a set of key issues of current ageing research i.e. health competence and well-being. These key issues are addressed based on three converging research streams: social-ecological research which assumes that major processes and outcomes of ageing such as day-to-day competence are shaped by social and physical-spatial environments; geropsychology research which is driven by a life-span developmental conception of ageing; and epidemiology which offers most fundamental disease function and prevention-related data. Each of the three major research directions are outlined by a short introduction followed by three chapters treating in an empirical manner most recent key research questions. All chapters are then also discussed by renowned ageing experts.