"As we age, our faces and bodies change, but we know little about how these physiological changes can affect how people perceive and interpret the emotions of older adults. This book reviews how the elderly communicate emotions in interactions with friends and family, in the workplace, and in healthcare settings"--

Preface ¿ Communicating emotion with an aging face and body: critical issues and theoretical considerations; Part I. Basic Processes: 1. Emotion communication and person perception; 2. How social, emotional, and motivational forces affect facial appearance over time; 3. Aging bodies, brains, and emotions: the physiological hypothesis of emotional aging; Part II. Aging and Aging Stereotypes: 4. Facial Aging and its influence on facial stereotypes and trait judgments; 5. The intersection of race, gender/sex, and age in emotion perception from faces and bodies; 6. Perceived age, stereotyping, and emotion in intergenerational communication; Part III. Impact of Aging Cues on First Impressions and Emotion Communication: 7. Youth and beauty: age-based trait impressions from faces; 8. Conscious and unconscious emotion communication in intergenerational interaction; Part IV. The Effects of Facial Movement Impairment of Emotion Communication: 9. Emotional anatomy: facial expressions and botulinum toxin; 10: The expression and perception of social and emotional cues in older adults with Parkinson's disease; Part V. Methodological Approaches to the Study of the Effects of Aging on Emotion Communication: 11: Computer vision for the study of older (and younger) adult faces: Approaches, Advances, and Applications; 12: Using data-driven methods to advance knowledge of social face perception; Conclusion: the aging body ¿ a proposal for future research.