Aging and Time

Aims to revitalise the debate about the concepts of time implicit in the study of aging. This book explores issues concerning temporal concepts and approaches to aging; and the concepts of time that are used in thinking about aging that determine the way aging is approached. It is aimed at students and professors of the social sciences.

Jan Baars is Professor of Interpretive Gerontology, at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht, The Netherlands

Introduction Introduction Chronological Time and Chronological Age: Problems of Temporal Diversity Jan Baars A Triple Temporality of Aging: Chronological Measurement, Personal Experience, and Narrative Articulation Jan Baars Psychological Time: Empirical Evidence, Theories, and Age-Related Effects Elke van der Meer Temporal References in the Construction of Self-Identity: A Life-Span Approach Freya Dittaman-Kohli The Concept of Event Time in the Study of Adult Development K. Warner Schaie Time and Aging: A Physicist's Look at Gerontology Jos Uffink Biological Time as an Emergent Property F. Eugene Yates Whence an Emergence of Biological Time? Jos Uffink Further Conjectures on the Nature of Time in Living Systems: Causes of Senescence Addendum F. Eugene Yates The Integration Problem: Toward Multilevel Explanations