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Dedication Contributors Preface Part I: Psychology of Minority Aging Chapter 1: Introduction: Psychology—Rising as a Discipline to Meet the Challenges of an Aging, Increasingly Diverse Society Chapter 2: Minority Aging Before Birth and Beyond: Life Span and Intergenerational Adaptation Through Positive Resources Chapter 3: Social Relationships and Health Among Minority Older Adults Chapter 4: Religion and Spirituality Among Older African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics Chapter 5: Stress, Discrimination, and Coping in Late Life Chapter 6: Correlates of Cognitive Aging in Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Part II: Public Health/Biology of Minority Aging Chapter 7: Introduction: Minorities, Aging, and Health Chapter 8: Race/Ethnicity and Disability Among Older Americans Chapter 9: Race/Ethnicity, Mortality, and Longevity Chapter 10: What Does Knowing About Genetics Contribute to Understanding the Health of Minority Elders? Chapter 11: Minority Elders: Nutrition and Dietary Interventions Chapter 12: Two Approaches to Developing Health Interventions for Ethnic Minority Elders: From Science to Practice and From Practice to Science Chapter 13: Structural and Cultural Issues in Long-Term Services and Supports for Minority Populations Chapter 14: Does Health Care Quality Contribute to Disparities? An Examination of Aging and Minority Status Issues in America
Part III: Social Work and Minority Aging Chapter 15: Introduction: Social Work and Minority Aging Chapter 16: End-of-Life Care Among Older Minorities Chapter 17: Aging in Place Chapter 18: Racial/Ethnic Minority Older Adults in Nursing Homes: Need for Culturally Competent Care Chapter 19: The Complexities of Caregiving for Minority Older Adults: Rewards and Challenges Chapter 20: Older Adults of Color With Developmental Disabilities and Serious Mental Illness: Experiences and Service Patterns Chapter 21: The Productive Engagement of Older African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans Chapter 22: The Older Americans Act and the Nexus of Aging and Diversity
Part IV: Sociology of Minority Aging Chapter 23: Introduction: Sociology of Minority Aging Chapter 24: The Demography of Minority Aging Chapter 25: Social Networks and Minority Elders Chapter 26: Informal Social Support Networks of African American, Latino, Asian American, and Native American Older Adults Chapter 27: The Ethnography of Ethnic Minority Families and Aging: Familism and Beyond Chapter 28: Intersections Among Gender, Race, and Ethnicity: Implications for Health Chapter 29: Understanding Age at Onset and Self-Care Management to Explain Racial and Ethnic Cardiovascular Disease Disparities in Middle- and Older-Age Adults Chapter 30: Age in Place and Place in Age: Advancing the Inquiry on Neighborhoods and Minority Older Adults Chapter 31: Work and Retirement Chapter 32: Public Policy, the Welfare State, and Older Minority Americans Chapter 33: Medicare and Health Care Utilization
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Chapter 2: Minority Aging Before Birth and Beyond: Life Span and Intergenerational Adaptation Through Positive Resources
Dedication Contributors Preface Part I: Psychology of Minority Aging Chapter 1: Introduction: Psychology—Rising as a Discipline to Meet the Challenges of an Aging, Increasingly Diverse Society Chapter 2: Minority Aging Before Birth and Beyond: Life Span and Intergenerational Adaptation Through Positive Resources Chapter 3: Social Relationships and Health Among Minority Older Adults Chapter 4: Religion and Spirituality Among Older African Americans, Asians, and Hispanics Chapter 5: Stress, Discrimination, and Coping in Late Life Chapter 6: Correlates of Cognitive Aging in Racial/Ethnic Minorities
Part II: Public Health/Biology of Minority Aging Chapter 7: Introduction: Minorities, Aging, and Health Chapter 8: Race/Ethnicity and Disability Among Older Americans Chapter 9: Race/Ethnicity, Mortality, and Longevity Chapter 10: What Does Knowing About Genetics Contribute to Understanding the Health of Minority Elders? Chapter 11: Minority Elders: Nutrition and Dietary Interventions Chapter 12: Two Approaches to Developing Health Interventions for Ethnic Minority Elders: From Science to Practice and From Practice to Science Chapter 13: Structural and Cultural Issues in Long-Term Services and Supports for Minority Populations Chapter 14: Does Health Care Quality Contribute to Disparities? An Examination of Aging and Minority Status Issues in America
Part III: Social Work and Minority Aging Chapter 15: Introduction: Social Work and Minority Aging Chapter 16: End-of-Life Care Among Older Minorities Chapter 17: Aging in Place Chapter 18: Racial/Ethnic Minority Older Adults in Nursing Homes: Need for Culturally Competent Care Chapter 19: The Complexities of Caregiving for Minority Older Adults: Rewards and Challenges Chapter 20: Older Adults of Color With Developmental Disabilities and Serious Mental Illness: Experiences and Service Patterns Chapter 21: The Productive Engagement of Older African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans Chapter 22: The Older Americans Act and the Nexus of Aging and Diversity
Part IV: Sociology of Minority Aging Chapter 23: Introduction: Sociology of Minority Aging Chapter 24: The Demography of Minority Aging Chapter 25: Social Networks and Minority Elders Chapter 26: Informal Social Support Networks of African American, Latino, Asian American, and Native American Older Adults Chapter 27: The Ethnography of Ethnic Minority Families and Aging: Familism and Beyond Chapter 28: Intersections Among Gender, Race, and Ethnicity: Implications for Health Chapter 29: Understanding Age at Onset and Self-Care Management to Explain Racial and Ethnic Cardiovascular Disease Disparities in Middle- and Older-Age Adults Chapter 30: Age in Place and Place in Age: Advancing the Inquiry on Neighborhoods and Minority Older Adults Chapter 31: Work and Retirement Chapter 32: Public Policy, the Welfare State, and Older Minority Americans Chapter 33: Medicare and Health Care Utilization
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- M. Abdou, Cleopatra
Abstract
This chapter presents an integrative approach to the psychological study of minority populations and the reduction of health disparities through positive nonmaterial resources. It provides a brief introduction to positive psychology and to the concept of early life origins of disease, highlighting the value of integrating these seemingly disparate literatures as a lens for studying health and broader aging processes among minority populations. Minority status whether based on ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), citizenship, religion, or other factors is a robust determinant of health, well-being, and success across the life span and intergenerationally. Positive psychology is relevant to health and development particularly physiological and psychological adaptation to stress across the life span, and even across multiple generations among humans in general and among minority populations in particular. Health inequalities are the result of unique challenges to successful psychological and physiological adaptation faced by minority group members.