References 503Aging is a natural part of the lifecycle and the number
of older persons is growing. In terms of the literature, a very
signi“cant portion of the work in health psychology, except that
limited to conditions in childhood and adolescence, deals with
adult development and aging. In dealing with the multiple med-
ical conditions common in geriatric medicine (Hazzard, Blass,
Ettinger, Halter, & Ouslander, 1999), the issue is health status
and not age, per se. Moreover, there are childhood and adoles-
cence antecedents to adult behaviors shown across many “elds.
Kuh and Ben-Shlomo (1997) provide an excellent set of chap-
ters that speak to true life span theory and data related to physi-
cal health conditions, particularly with the studies such as the
1946 cohort study in Britain, which has related childhood char-
acteristics to adult health status at midlife (Wadsworth, 1991)
with superb data. In sum, with the aging of our population, the
opportunities for health psychologists to make signi“cant con-
tributions to research, clinical care, and the quality of life for
older persons is limitless.
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