Resource Guide:
Adult Development and Aging

• CSWE Gero-Ed Center

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Colorado State University: Adult Development and Aging Project
• NDSU Adult Development and Aging Publications
• Adult Development and Aging Programs
• National Center for Productive Aging and Work
• NIFA Adult Development and Aging Programs

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Adult development and aging
• Adulthood
• Well-being, Age factors
• Middle-aged persons
• Older adults
• Age (Psychology)
• Aging
• Old age
• Ageism
• Adult children
• Social networks
• Retirement
• Retirement—Planning
• Retirement income
• Retired women
• Retirees--Social networks
• Older people--Housing
• Adult care facilities
• Retirement communities

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• Alt HealthWatch
• Associates Programs Source
• Consumer Health Complete
• Education Research Complete
• ERIC
• Films on Demand
• Handbook of Psychology, 2nd Ed.
• Health Source – Consumer Edition
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
• JSTOR
• MedicLatina
• Medline
• PsycInfo
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
• PubMed
• Statista
• Teacher Reference Center
• Wiley Online Library
• Women’s Studies International

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Adultspan Journal
• Age and Aging
• Ageing International
• Annual Review of Sociology
• European Journal of Ageing
• Generations: Journal of the American Society on Aging
• Journal of Adult Development
• Journal of Aging Research
• Journal of Aging Studies
• Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology
• New Directions for Adult & Continuing Education
• Quality of Life Research

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.