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Geropsychology addresses a broad range of domains such as cognitive abilities, personality, social-emotional functioning, as well as the mental health of older adults. Seen against other key disciplines, geropsychology concentrates more on individual behavior than on societal and biological processes as compared to the sociology of aging and biogerontology. Nevertheless, an increasing orientation toward combining biomarkers with traditional measures of geropsychology such as questionnaires has emerged with the goal to better understand the connection between biological and...
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Wahl, HW., Schnabel, EL. (2019). Geropsychology. In: Gu, D., Dupre, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population Aging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69892-2_98-1
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