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Front Matter i-xvi
PART I: FINAL REPORT 1-2
Summary 3-8
1 Introduction and Approach 9-13
2 A Conceptual Model of Aging for the Next Generation of Research 14-30
3 Data Needs and Opportunities 31-55
4 Roadblocks and Bridges to Transdisciplinary Research 56-66
References 67-75
Appendix: Biographical Sketches of Panel Members 76-80
PART II: PAPERS 81-82
5 Introduction and Overview--Linda J. Waite 83-94
6 The New Realities of Aging: Social and Economic Contexts--Jacqueline L. Angel and Richard A. Settersten, Jr. 95-119
7 Research Opportunities in the Demography of Aging--Melissa Hardy and Vegard Skirbekk 120-150
8 Networks, Neighborhoods, and Institutions: An Integrated "Activity Space" Approach for Research on Aging--Kathleen A. Cagney, Christopher R. Browning, Aubrey L. Jackson, and Brian Soller 151-174
9 Constrained Choices: The Shifting Institutional Contexts of Aging and the Life Course--Phyllis Moen 175-216
10 Opportunities and Challenges in the Study of Biosocial Dynamics in Healthy Aging--Tara L. Gruenewald 217-242
11 The Loyal Opposition: A Commentary on "Opportunities and Challenges in the Study of Biosocial Dynamics in Healthy Aging"--Maxine Weinstein, Dana A. Glei, and Noreen Goldman 243-254
12 Social Genomics and the Life Course: Opportunities and Challenges for Multilevel Population Research--Michael J. Shanahan 255-276
13 The Challenge of Social Genomics: A Commentary on "Social Genomics and the Life Course: Opportunities and Challenges for Multilevel Population Research"--Jason Schnittker 277-283
14 Interventions to Promote Health and Prevent Disease: Perspectives on Clinical Trials Past, Present, and Future--S. Leonard Syme and Abby C. King 284-300
Committee on Population 301-302

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New Directions in the Sociology of Aging (2013)

Chapter: PART I: FINAL REPORT

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