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Core Concepts in Health, Brief Cover Image
Core Concepts in Health Brief, 9/e
Paul M. Insel, Stanford University, School of Medicine
Walton T. Roth, Stanford University, School of Medicine
The Challenge of Aging

Chapter Outline


This chapter covers the physiological, emotional, mental, and social aspects of aging; preparation for a healthy old age; various definitions of and attitudes toward death; and ways to deal with and plan for our own deaths and the death of others.
  1. Generating vitality while aging
  2. Confronting the changes of aging
  3. Aging and life expectancy
  4. Life in an aging America
  5. What death is
  6. Basic tasks in planning for death
  7. Coping with death
  8. Coping with loss
  9. Coming to terms with death








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