Second fifty years promoting health and preventing disability
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...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academy Press
1990.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009820286706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Disability classification
- High blood pressure
- Medications
- Risk factors for infection in the elderly
- Osteoporosis
- Preventing disability related to sensory loss in the older adult
- Oral health problems in the "second fifty"
- Screening for cancer
- Nutrition
- Cigarette smoking
- Depression
- Physical inactivity
- Social isolation among older individuals: the relationship to mortality and morbidity
- Falls in older persons: risk factors and prevention. Appendix A: can philosophy cure what ails the medical model? / Arthur Caplan
- Appendix B: looking for order: health promotion, disability prevention, and the disability classification system of the World Health Organization / Ted Miller.
