This handbook discusses how the various approaches to aging theory can be integrated to create a unified theoretical aging discourse. The chapters in this volume are commissioned from scholars whose research in aging has achieved international recognition, and who are concerned with the advancement of cross-disciplinary theorizing in the field.Chapters include: * Dynamic Integration Theory: Emotion, Cognition, and Equilibrium in Later Life * Cognitive Control Theory of Aging and Emotional Well-Being * Theorizing Feminist Gerontology, Sexuality and Beyond * From Industrialism to Institutionalism: Theoretical Accounts of Aging This handbook includes a remarkable array of contributions that present state-of-the-art, innovative inter- and intra- disciplinary theorizing in the study of aging. A useful resource for both students and professionals, this book represents the current status of theoretical development in the study of aging.