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Encyclopedia of Health and Aging. Ed. by Kyriakos S. Markides. Los Angeles: Sage, 2007. 675p. alkaline $150 (ISBN 978-1-4129-0949-5).
Over the past several years, a number of encyclopedias on aging have been published. Works such as Adriel Bettelheim's Aging in America: A to Z (CQ Pr., 2001) focus on political, social, and legislative factors affecting aging persons. Others discuss health topics at a level geared toward undergraduates and consumers and offer a multidisciplinary examination of aging, such as David Ekerdt's The Encyclopedia of Aging (Macmillan Reference, 2002), with its articles on "Careers in Aging" and "Visual Arts and Aging." The Encyclopedia of Health and Aging, however, focuses entirely on health and medicine in aging, with writing geared toward researchers, practitioners, and students in the field of medicine and entries examining aging and geriatrics from a medical, scientific...