Health Promotion and Aging (eBook)

Practical Applications for Health Professionals

David Haber (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019 | 8. Auflage
504 Seiten
Springer Publishing Company (Verlag)
978-0-8261-8493-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This acclaimed text promotes healthy aging by demonstrating how health practitioners, program developers, and policymakers can prevent or manage disease and make large-scale improvements toward health and wellness in the older adult population. The eighth edition encompasses major new research that substantially updates previous recommendations. It provides important new content on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the ACA; clinical preventive services; global aging; sexual health; saving for retirement; long-term care alternatives; and much more.Accessible and comprehensive, this text is supported by abundant tables, figures, and illustrations. It describes practical strategies-including model community and government initiatives-that have proven markedly successful, as well as health-promotion tools, resource lists, assessment tools, and checklists. New trends such as green burials, LGBT aging, yoga, and dancing exercise regimens are also covered. Additionally, each chapter features key terms, learning objectives, summary, and thought-provoking questions. An improved instructor package includes upgraded PowerPoints, a new test bank, sample syllabi, chapter summaries, discussion questions, chapter exams, and more. Purchase includes access to the ebook for use on most mobile devices or computers.New to the Eighth Edition:Updated research findings, demographics, figures, and statistics regarding health/social/medicaltrends/exercise/weight managementNew content on global aging, sexual health, and substance abuseNew information on medical screening recommendations, cancer treatments, complementary and alternative medicine, and moreNew findings regarding mental health and older adultsSignificant updates to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and the ACAExpanded section on global health and older adultsUpgraded instructor support packageKey Features:Provides an interdisciplinary view of how practitioners, program developers, and policymakers can improve health and wellness in older adultsDescribes successful community and government model programs and initiativesDelivers health-promoting tools, resource lists, checklists, and assessment toolsOffers key terms, learning objectives, critical-thinking questions and reflection boxesIncludes a robust instructor package

Inhalt

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction to Health Promotion and Aging

2. Clinical Preventive Services and Aging

3. Empowering Older Adults

4. Exercise and Aging

5. Nutrition, Weight Management, and Aging

6. Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and Aging

7. Selected Health Education and Aging Topics

8. Mental Health and Aging

9. Community Health and Aging

10. Long-Term Care and End-of-Life Care

11. Public Health Policy and Aging

12. Diversity and Aging

References

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
• Themenwelt: Pflege ► Fachpflege ► Neurologie / Psychiatrie
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: aerobics,Affordable Care Act,flexibility and balance,health education,health practitioners,health promotion,healthy aging,long-term care alternatives,Medicaid,Medicare,older adult population,policymakers
• ISBN-10: 0-8261-8493-6 / 0826184936
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8261-8493-1 / 9780826184931