Aging and the Life Course: An Introduction to Social Gerontology explores how various life experiences shape quality of life in older adulthood. The text emphasizes the intersection of race, class, gender, and culture, and examines how these factors influence well-being in later life. Students gain a strong foundation for understanding important and timely policy issues related to aging.
Jill Quadagno is the Mildred and Claude Pepper Eminent Scholar Chair in Social Gerontology at Florida State University. She earned her B.A. from Pennsylvania State University, her M.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. A Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, she has received numerous honors, including the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Section on Aging of the American Sociological Association, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship.
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