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.

Autorentext
Patrick P Coll MD, AGSF, CMD

Medical Director Senior Health

Professor Family Medicine and Medicine

UConn Health

263 Farmington Ave

Farmington, CT 06030-5215

Klappentext

This book highlights both biomedical and psychosocial interventions, including lifestyle changes that promote healthy aging. The text begins with an introduction to the principles of disease prevention and health promotion with an emphasis on the impact of age on life expectancy, disease and disability. Written by experts who have an interest in healthy aging, the text highlights steps that patients and their healthcare providers can take to promote healthy aging. There is an emphasis on maintaining function and preventing disability with increasing age. Common biomedical interventions including exercise, nutrition, sleep and cancer prevention are addressed in detail. The text then shifts to address the psychosocial determinant of healthy aging including, housing, relationships, intimacy, work and spirituality. The text then outlines steps that healthcare systems and public policy agencies should adopt to promote healthy aging, both for those who are older now and for those who will be older in the future.

*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.

Inhalt

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