The Second Fifty Years: Promoting Health and Preventing Disability

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National 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
Index 321

Oral Heal Problems in the Second Fifty 119
Nutrition 157
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TítuloThe Second Fifty Years: Promoting Health and Preventing Disability
AutoresInstitute of Medicine, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Ediciónilustrada, revisada
EditorNational Academies Press, 1992
ISBN0309046815, 9780309046817
Largo344 páginas
  
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