| Description |
xii, 380 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Health Promotion for the Elderly: Need for a New Perspective -- The Health Care Crisis -- Cost- Extrapolation and Future Health Care Costs -- Moving Toward a New Health Paradigm -- Health Promotion and the Elderly: The New Rhetoric -- Theory Underlying Health Promotion and Health Care Cost Containment -- Chapter Summary -- 2. Health Promotion: Concepts and Dimensions -- Terminology, Concepts and Modes of Practice -- Health Promotion: A Conceptual Model -- Extending the Health Promotion Model to Rehabilitation and Aging -- 3. Health Assessment -- Health Assessment: A Conceptual Framework -- Specific Assessment Phase -- Functional Assessment and the Elderly -- 4. Prescriptive Physical Fitness and the Older Adult -- Inevitable Decline of the Human Machine -- Seven Keys to Physical Fitness -- Safety Considerations -- General Fitness Programs -- 5. Nutrition in Later Years -- Year 2000 Nutrition Objectives -- Factors Affecting Nutritional Practices of Older Adults -- Nutritional Guidelines -- Nutritional Intervention Programs -- 6. Drug Managament in Older Adults -- The Semantics of Substance Dependency -- Substance Dependency Intervention Programs -- 7. Substance Dependency and the Elderly -- The Semantics of Substance Dependency -- Substance Dependency Intervention ProgramsPrevalence of Medication Use by Older Adults -- 8. The Elderly and Their Mental Health: Choices and Challenges -- Mental Wellness Defined -- Mental Worry: Developmental Concerns -- Mental Illness: Common Complaints -- Issues of Assessment -- Family: Ambiguous Loss and Anticipatory Grief -- Health Promotion to Enhance Mental Wellness -- 9. Stress and Health Promotion -- Stress Defined -- Stress and the Later Stages of the Life Cycle -- Impact of Stress on Health -- Strategies for Stress Reduction -- 10. Spiritual Health and Aging -- Spirituality: The Search for the Holy Grail of Wellness -- Spiritual Health Promotion: A Sense of Coherence -- 11. Common Chronic Diseases, Injury and AIDS in Late Life -- Injury Control Programs -- Blood Pressure -- Diabetes -- Breast Cancer -- Osteoporosis -- Arthritis: The Nation's Primary Crippler -- Aids -- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease -- 12. Elderly Patients and Their Doctors: Partners in Health Promotion -- Communicating with the Health Care Team -- Preparation for Death as Health Promoting -- 13. Planning a Healthy Retirement -- Economic -- Psychological -- Social -- Spiritual -- 14. Ethnicity and Health Promotion -- Ethnicity and Health Promotion -- Gender Issues and Health Promotion -- Each chapter includes a Chapter Summary -- Appendices -- A. Recommendations: Assuring Comprehensive Health Care Including Long-Term Care -- B. SixHHAs: Similarities and Differences -- C. Physical Activity Readiness Questionaire (PAR-Q) -- D. Useful Materials about Nutrition for Older Adults -- E. Useful Materials about Medication Management for Older Adults -- F. Community Substance Dependency Programs -- G. Basic Procedure-Muscle Relaxation |
| Notes |
Teague appears as main entry on 2nd ed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 342-378) |
| Subject |
Health promotion.
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Older people -- Health and hygiene.
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| Author |
Teague, Michael L., 1946-
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| LC no. |
97127061 |
| ISBN |
0697262685 |
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