Public Health and Aging
An Introduction to Maximizing Function and Well-being
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2003
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-2134-9 (ISBN)
Springer Publishing Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8261-2134-9 (ISBN)
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Presents key concepts and tools that define the field of public health and aging, such as cohort analysis, the lifetable, age-sex pyramids and risk stratification. This book also includes a synthesis of the most productive measures of healthy aging, also of ""successful aging"" and frailty; sample studies; and clinical trials.
Public health and aging is a developing field, standing between clinical geriatrics and the demography and epidemiology of aging. It has heretofore lacked a unified treatment or single framework. This text provides such a framework and offers a first synthesis of a burgeoning literature in geriatrics, gerontology, occupational therapy, epidemiology, demography, neuropsychology, rehabilitation medicine, social work, and public policy. Key concepts and tools that define the field of public health and aging such as cohort analysis, the lifetable, age-sex pyramids and risk stratification are presented. A synthesis of the most productive measures of healthy aging, also of ""successful aging"" and frailty; sample studies; and clinical trials that address the question of age, health, and healthy old age are also included.
Public health and aging is a developing field, standing between clinical geriatrics and the demography and epidemiology of aging. It has heretofore lacked a unified treatment or single framework. This text provides such a framework and offers a first synthesis of a burgeoning literature in geriatrics, gerontology, occupational therapy, epidemiology, demography, neuropsychology, rehabilitation medicine, social work, and public policy. Key concepts and tools that define the field of public health and aging such as cohort analysis, the lifetable, age-sex pyramids and risk stratification are presented. A synthesis of the most productive measures of healthy aging, also of ""successful aging"" and frailty; sample studies; and clinical trials that address the question of age, health, and healthy old age are also included.
Dr. Albert is a professor in the Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He directs the Public Health Gerontology program. Additionally, he leads the Clinical Core of the Claude D. Pepper Center for Independence in Older Adults and is Co-Director of the Center for Healthy Aging, a CDC Prevention Research Center. Dr. Albert's research examines public health goals in an increasingly mass geriatric society.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.3.2004 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | black & white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 592 g |
| Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Geriatrie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8261-2134-9 / 0826121349 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8261-2134-9 / 9780826121349 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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