Age and cumulative advantage/disadvantage theory have obvious logical, theoretical, and
empirical connections, because both are inherently and irreducibly related to the passage of …

Research on life transitions highlights the normative and nonnormative changes that
individuals experience over time. During the past two decades, life course perspectives …

The social and behavioral sciences are at a crossroads in public health. In this paper, we
attempt to describe a path toward the further integration of the natural and behavioral …

Recent contributions of sociologists and others have brought a new awareness and new
theoretical understanding of the extent to which human aging and life-course patterns are …

Studies examining age-related changes typically report findings as age-based
generalizations that neglect the phenomenon of variability in gerontological research. This …

A body of work referred to as the “life course” framework (also known as “life course theory,”
the “life course paradigm,” and the “life course perspective”) has been increasingly used to …

Efforts at cumulative knowledge building in social gerontology have been lax, judging from
research articles published in journals between 1990 and 1994. Too little attention has been …

This is a book about adult development. Such a simple statement, but it implies a lot. This is
not just a catalogue of facts about adults, or a personality text that deals with the origins of …

Transitions and the life course: Challenging the constructions of'growing old'explores and
challenges dominant interpretations of transitions as they relate to ageing and the life …

Drawing from cumulative disadvantage theory, the health consequences of obesity are
considered in light of the accumulation of risk factors over the life course. Two forms of …