Main description:

This book weaves all of these factors together to engage in and promote medical, biomedical and psychosocial interventions, including lifestyle changes, for healthier aging outcomes. The text begins with an introduction to age-related changes that increase in disease and disability commonly associated with old age. Written by experts in healthy aging, the text approaches the principles of disease and disability prevention via specific health issues. Each chapter highlights the challenge of not just increasing life expectancy but also deceasing disease burden and disability in old age. The text then shifts into the whole-person implications for clinicians working with older patients, including the social and cultural considerations that are necessary for improved outcomes as Baby Boomers age and healthcare systems worldwide adjust.

Healthy Aging is an important resource for those working with older patients, including geriatricians, family medicine physicians, nurses, gerontologists, students, public health administrators, and all other medical professionals.

Contents:

1. Healthy Aging: Definition & Scope

2. Disease, Disability & Frailty with Increasing Age

3. The Principles of Disease and Disability Prevention & Health Promotion with Increasing Age

4. The Interface between Healthy Aging, Longevity, Disease & Disability

5. Cardiovascular Health & Healthy Aging

6. Musculoskeletal Health &Healthy Aging

7. Gastrointestinal Health & Healthy Aging

8. Pulmonary Health & Healthy Aging

9. Urogenital Health & Healthy Aging

10. Skin Health & Healthy Aging: Cosmetics

11. Skin Health & Healthy Aging: Diseases

12. Preventing Falls & Injuries, & Healthy Aging

13. Sensory Health & Healthy Aging: Hearing, Taste & Smell

14. Sensory Health & healthy Aging: Vision

15. Cognition & Healthy Aging

16. Preventing Infections & Healthy Aging

17. Preventing Cancer & Healthy Aging

18. Endocrine Health & Healthy Aging

19. Oral Health & Healthy Aging

20. Exercise & Healthy Aging: Preventing Disease & Disability

21. Exercise & Healthy Aging: Preventing Disease & Disability

22. Nutrition & Healthy Aging

23. Sleep & Healthy Aging

24. PROMOTING HEALTHY AGING THROUGH RECOGNITION AND TREATMENT OF PSYCHIATRIC DISORDERS IN OLDER ADULTS

25. Sexuality, Intimacy & Healthy Aging

26. Pain & Healthy Aging

27. Creativity, Personal Fulfillment & Healthy Aging

28. Relationships & Healthy Aging

29. Resilience, Adapting to Change & Healthy Aging

30. Mindfulness, Spirituality & Healthy Aging

31. Cultural & Socio-Economic Determinants of Healthy Aging

32. Employment & the Workplace Supporting Healthy Aging

33. Urban Planning, Housing &Transportation Supporting Healthy Aging

34. Health Care Systems & Health Care Funding Supporting Healthy Aging

35. Government Policy Supporting Healthy Aging