The Second Fifty Years: Promoting Health and Preventing DisabilityNational Academies Press, 1992 M02 1 - 344 páginas Taking its title from the second 50 years of the human life span of about 100 years, this book presents wide-ranging and practical recommendations for health care providers, policymakers, and other sectors of society. These recommendations range from setting new national policies to changing the way elderly patients are interviewed in the doctor's office and from what exercises older persons should do to how city planners should design our urban environment. The bulk of this volume presents the latest research on 13 major health threats to the elderly, covering prevalence, impact on the older person's life, cost, and intervention. In addition, the authors provide a detailed analysis of why older people often do not receive the benefit of prevention programs. |
Contenido
Summary | |
Introduction 11 | |
Disability Classification 22 | |
High Blood Pressure 33 | |
Medications 53 | |
Risk Factors for Infection in the Elderly 65 | |
Osteoporosis 76 | |
Preventing Disability Related to Sensory Loss in the Older Adult 101 | |
Cigarette Smoking 193 | |
Depression 202 | |
Physical Inactivity 224 | |
The Relationship to Mor tality and Morbidity 243 | |
Risk Factors and Prevention 263 | |
A Can Philosophy Cure What Ails the Medical Model? 291 | |
Health Promotion Disability Prevention and 311 | |
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Worlds of Difference: Inequality in the Aging Experience Eleanor Palo Stoller,Rose Campbell Gibson Vista previa limitada - 2000 |
Social and Behavioral Foundations of Public Health Jeannine Coreil,Carol Bryant,J. Neil Henderson Vista previa limitada - 2001 |