Healthy Aging: Challenges and SolutionsKen Dychtwald Jones & Bartlett Learning, 1999 - 415 من الصفحات In Healthy Aging: Challenges and Solutions, the nation's leading exper ts, researchers, analysts, and educators present their frustrations, f indings, insights, and recommendations on what current research reveal s about the promise of healthy aging, how we are unprepared for the lo ng-term chronic needs of an aging population, and why we need to rethi nk how the nation spends health care dollars. Edited by Dr. Ken Dychtw ald, one of the nation's foremost visionaries and leading authorities on the aging of America, this anthology will open your eyes to our nat ion's lack of readiness to meet the staggering health care needs of an aging society, and what must be done to head off the fast-approaching health care logjam. |
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Revolution in Longevity | 19 |
Successful Aging | 27 |
Maximizing Cognitive and Physical Function | 33 |
Response to Stress | 39 |
The Case for Healthy Aging and | 45 |
Trends in Morbidity | 52 |
Conclusion | 59 |
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17 | 188 |
Making Healthy Aging a Key Priority | 201 |
How Generous Is Medicare and to Whom? | 209 |
The Elderly Populations Claim on GDP Social | 221 |
Chapter 17The Insurers Role in Shaping a | 247 |
Disability | 261 |
What | 268 |
Creating a Policy Framework for Aging | 275 |
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The Case for Preventing Decline in | 85 |
Genetics | 92 |
Molecular Engineering | 101 |
Gerontologizing the Practice of Health Care | 111 |
The Past Present and Future of Gerontologic | 121 |
Chapter 10The Geriatric Evaluation and Treatment | 135 |
Chapter 11Creativity and Healthy Aging | 145 |
Chapter 12New Models of Health Care for Elders | 155 |
The Need for Enhanced Geriatric Skills | 164 |
P Screening Questions ra | 172 |
Examples of Brief Standardized | 178 |
Financial Risk and Case Management | 185 |
A Simple CostFree | 285 |
A Phalanx of Fallacies | 293 |
Beyond the Medical | 303 |
Wellness and SelfCare The Next Generation | 315 |
Mind over Matter | 333 |
Why Some People Remain Compliant while | 369 |
Chapter 25Toward Appropriate Use of Medical Care | 377 |
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Chapter 26CommunityWide Prevention Programs | 389 |
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