Aging and decision making : empirical and applied perspectives

摘要: Decisions large and small play a fundamental role in shaping life course trajectories of health well-being: decisions draw upon an individual's capacity for self-regulation self-control, their ability to keep long-term goals mind, willingness place appropriate value on future well-being. Aging Decision Making addresses the specific cognitive affective processes that account age-related changes decision making, targeting interventions compensate vulnerabilities leverage strengths aging individual. This book focuses four dominant approaches characterize current state decision-making science - neuroscience, behavioral mechanisms, competence models, applied perspectives. Underscoring choice is ubiquitous component everyday functioning, examines implications how we invest our limited social, temporal, psychological, financial, physical resources, lays essential groundwork design supportive adaptive take into individual capacities context variables. * Divided neuroscience* Explores impact linkages between cortical structures/functions indices decision-making* Examines themes associated with attempt integrations methods, theories general those derived from study aging* Details underlying competencies later two prevailing have emerged-one, differences perspective, two, more clinical focus