Synopsis This pioneering text is the only book to comprehensively explore both research and practice in the psychology of aging and to bring home the actual aging experience through the use of innovative narrative accounts. The field highlighting the interconnections between concepts, research and applications. These interconnections offer students a sense of an evolving, coherent discipline. The book is carefully planned to bring home how research applies to real lives. The editor skillfully uses personal examples to highlight how concepts apply to people and goes beyond the research to conduct his own interviews with aging professionals and older adults. This book will be found to be immense value to teachers, researchers, students and the reading public alike.