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1 online resource (xiv, 337 pages) : illustrations |
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Societal impact on aging |
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Societal impact on aging.
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Contributors; Preface; 1 Biosocial Considerations in Chronic Illness Perceptions and Decisions; 2 Linear and Dynamical Thinking about Psychosocial Factors and Cardiovascular Risk; 3 A Cognitive-Affective Analysis of Cancer Behavior in the Elderly: Are You as Healthy as You Feel?; 4 Psychosocial Factors in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease; 5 Ethnicity and Psychosocial Factors in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention; 6 Getting Help to Those Most Likely to Benefit: Patient Characteristics and Treatment Success |
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Biosocial Considerations in Chronic Illness Perceptions and Decisions / Tom Hickey -- Linear and Dynamical Thinking about Psychosocial Factors and Cardiovascular Risk / Jerry Suls and René Martin -- Commentary : Acute and Chronic Psychological Processes in Cardiovascular Disease / Derek W. Johnston -- A Cognitive-Affective Analysis of Cancer Behavior in the Elderly : Are You as Healthy as You Feel? / Suzanne M. Miller, James C. Knowles, Robert Schnoll, and Joanne Buzaglo -- Commentary : Beyond the Sociodemographics : From Prediction to Explanation of the Effects of Gender and Social Deprivation in Recovery from Myocardial Infarction / Marie Johnston, Hannah McGee, Elspeth Graham, and Malcolm MacLeod -- Psychosocial Factors in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease / Lynda H. Powell -- Ethnicity and Psycosocial Factors in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention / Keith E. Whitfield, Tamara A. Baker, and Dwayne T. Brandon -- Getting Help to Those Most Likely to Benefit : Patient Characteristics and Treatment Success / John C. Barefoot -- Exercise Interventions and Aging : Psychological and Physical Health Benefits in Older Adults / James A. Blumenthal and Elizabeth C.D. Gullete -- Commentary : Challenges to Using Exercise Interventions in Older Adults / Edith A. Burns -- How Provider Payment Policies Affect the Health-Care-Seeking Behavior of the Elderly / Bruce Stuart -- Commentary : Third-Party Payors and the Patient-Professional Relationship / Bryan E. Dowd -- Commentary : Factors Affecting Health-Care-Seeking Behavior of the Elderly / Pearl S. German -- The Potential for Health Care Organizations to Promote Maintenance and Change in Health Behaviors Among the Elderly / William Rakowski and Melissa A. Clark -- Commentary : Health Maintenance Organizations for the Elderly Patient? / Elaine Leventhal -- Commentary : Health Care Organizational Structure, Prevention, and Health Behavior Among the Elderly / Stephen Crystal -- Afterword : Health Behavior and the Elderly : How Do We Understand Its Determinants and Their Goals? / Howard Leventhal |
| Summary |
In what ways do health behaviors and societal mechanisms help or discourage individuals in assuming responsibility for their health? Highly-esteemed and diverse contributors examine the health behaviors of older adults and the ways in which these behaviors are affected by societal trends. The volume begins with a discussion of the personal attributes affecting health behaviors and responsible health care choices in older adults. Additional topics explored include: Psychosocial factors in the prevention of cardiovascular disease; behavioral interventions such as the role of exercise in preventi |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Older people -- Health and hygiene.
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Health behavior -- Age factors.
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Aging.
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Geriatrics.
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Health behavior.
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Older people.
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Health attitudes.
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Social ecology.
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Aging -- psychology
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Health Behavior
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Aged
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Attitude to Health
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Health Services for the Aged
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Social Environment
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Aging
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Geriatrics
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Aged, 80 and over
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elderly.
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human ecology.
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Healthy Living.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
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HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
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Social ecology
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Older people
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Health behavior
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Health attitudes
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Aging
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Geriatrics
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Health behavior -- Age factors
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Older people -- Health and hygiene
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Schaie, K. Warner (Klaus Warner), 1928-
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Leventhal, Howard, PhD.
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Willis, Sherry L., 1947-
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| ISBN |
9780826197436 |
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0826197434 |
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