Aging, Functioning, and Rehabilitation (eBook)

Proceedings of a Workshop

Board on Global Health, Board on Health Care Services, Health and Medicine Division, and Medicine National Academies of Sciences Engineering (Autoren)

Adrienne Formentos, Allison Boman, Ruth Cooper (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
106 Seiten
National Academies Press (Verlag)
978-0-309-71891-2 (ISBN)

Infos

With recent medical, technological, and socioeconomic developments, people are living longer. The rising average age of the world's population presents an opportunity to develop health policy that prioritizes functioning as a goal of healthy aging. In February 2024, the National Academies convened a hybrid workshop at the University of Lucerne in Switzerland to host a discussion focused on the World Health Organization's concept of functioning. Speakers paid particular focus to healthy aging and the future of rehabilitation as a health strategy. Experts emphasized that the need for rehabilitation is increasing due to rapid population aging accompanied by a rise in physical and mental health conditions, limitations, and injuries. The associated economic and practical obstacles of optimizing functioning across the life course were also discussed.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.10.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie
• ISBN-10: 0-309-71891-0 / 0309718910
• ISBN-13: 978-0-309-71891-2 / 9780309718912