The Second Fifty Years:

Promoting Health and Preventing Disability

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Size: 344 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1992

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Taking its title from the second 50 years of the human life span of about 100 years, this book presents wide-ranging and practical recommendations for health care providers, policymakers, and other sectors of society. These recommendations range from setting new ...
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"Covering every aspect of health care in later life, [The Second Fifty Years] is an outstanding source book for health educationalists who should increasingly be addressing the much neglected issues raised." --Journal of the Institute of Health Education

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Front Matter	i-xii
Summary	1-10	(skim)
Introduction	11-21	(skim)
Disability Classification	22-32	(skim)
High Blood Pressure	33-52	(skim)
Medications	53-64	(skim)
Risk Factors for Infection in the Elderly	65-75	(skim)
Osteoporosis	76-100	(skim)
Preventing Disability Related to Sensory Loss in the Older Adult	101-118	(skim)
Oral Health Problems in the 'Second Fifty'	119-135	(skim)
Screening for Cancer	136-156	(skim)
Nutrition	157-192	(skim)
Cigarette Smoking	193-201	(skim)
Depression	202-223	(skim)
Physical Inactivity	224-242	(skim)
Social Isolation Among Older Individuals: The Relationship to Mortality and Morbidity	243-262	(skim)
Falls in Older Persons: Risk Factors and Prevention	263-290	(skim)
Appendix A: Can Philosophy Cure What Ails the Medical Model?	291-310	(skim)
Appendix B: Looking for Order: Health Promotion, Disablity Classification System of the World Health Organization	311-320	(skim)
Index	321-332	(skim)

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Taking its title from the second 50 years of the human life span of about 100 years, this book presents wide-ranging and practical recommendations for health care providers, policymakers, and other sectors of society. These recommendations range from setting new national policies to changing the way elderly patients are interviewed in the doctor's office, and from what exercises older persons should do to how city planners should design our urban environment.

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"Covering every aspect of health care in later life, [The Second Fifty Years] is an outstanding source book for health educationalists who should increasingly be addressing the much neglected issues raised." --Journal of the Institute of Health Education

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