{"product_id":"9780124171558","title":"Aging and Decision Making: Empirical and Applied Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003eDecisions large and small play a fundamental role in shaping life course trajectories of health and well-being: decisions draw upon an individual's capacity for self-regulation and self-control, their ability to keep long-term goals in mind, and their willingness to place appropriate value on their future well-being.  \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAging and Decision Making\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e addresses the specific cognitive and affective processes that account for age-related changes in decision making, targeting interventions to compensate for vulnerabilities and leverage strengths in the aging individual.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book focuses on four dominant approaches that characterize the current state of decision-making science and aging - neuroscience, behavioral mechanisms, competence models, and applied perspectives.  Underscoring that choice is a ubiquitous component of everyday functioning, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAging and Decision Making\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e examines the implications of how we invest our limited social, temporal, psychological, financial, and physical resources, and lays essential groundwork for the design of decision supportive interventions for adaptive aging that take into account individual capacities and context variables.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDivided into four dominant approaches that characterize the current state of decision-making science and aging neuroscience\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplores the impact of aging on the linkages between cortical structures\/functions and the behavioral indices of decision-making\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExamines the themes associated with behavioral approaches that attempt integrations of methods, models, and theories of general decision-making with those derived from the study of aging\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDetails the changes in underlying competencies in later life and the two prevailing themes that have emerged—one, the general individual differences perspective, and two, a more clinical focus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Elsevier Science","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071503483120,"sku":"9780124171558","price":74.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780124171558_p0.jpg?v=1763639122","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780124171558","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}