Mary Lee Hummert - Aging, communication, and health: linking research and practice for successful aging

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Linking Research and Practice for Successful Aging

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LEA'S COMMUNICATION SERIES
Jennings Bryant/Dolf Zillmann, General Editors
Selected titles in Applied Communications
(Teresa L. Thompson, Advisory Editor) include:

Beck/Ragan/du Pre Partnership for Health: Building Relationships Between Women and Health Caregivers

Nussbaum/Pecchioni/Robinson/Thompson Communication and Aging, Second Edition

Ray Communication and Disenfranchisement: Social Health Issues and Implications

Socha/Diggs Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families

Street/Gold/Manning Health Promotion and Interactive Technology: Theoretical Applications and Future Directions

Whaley Explaining Illness: Research, Theory, and Strategy

Williams/Nussbaum Intergenerational Communication Across the Life Span

For a complete list of titles in LEA's Communication Series, please contact Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.

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Linking Research and Practice for Successful Aging

Edited by
Mary Lee Hummert
University of Kansas

Jon F. Nussbaum
The Pennsylvania State University

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Copyright 2001 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Aging, communication, and health: linking research and practice for successful aging /
edited by Mary Lee Hummert, Jon F. Nussbaum.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 0-8058-3379-X (cloth : alk. paper)
1. AgedHealth and hygiene. 2. AgedCommunication. 3. AgingPsychological
aspects. 4. Aging. 5. Health. I. Hummert, Mary Lee. II. Nussbaum, Jon F.
RA564.8 .A39715 2000
613'.0438dc21 00-060980

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For our parents
Bill and Winnie Higgins
Richard and Mary Nussbaum

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The chapters in this volume grew from research presented at the Third International Conference on Communication, Aging, and Health held in Kansas City, Missouri, in May, 1996. We are indebted to the sponsors of that conference for the support that ultimately led to the publication of this volume. We extend our thanks to the Merrill Advanced Studies Center and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas, who provided the primary support for the conference, as well as to the University of Kansas' Gerontology Center, Communication Studies Department, Office of International Studies and Programs, Center on Aging (University of Kansas Medical Center), and Hoechst Marion Roussel Pharmaceuticals.

We each received additional and much appreciated support from our respective universities during the preparation of the book manuscript. Our collaboration was greatly facilitated by a Big Twelve Faculty Exchange Fellowship awarded to Jon Nussbaum by the University of Oklahoma and a sabbatical leave awarded to Mary Lee Hummert by the University of Kansas. Mary Lee Hummert received further support during this project from National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health Grant R01 AG16352.