Aging Well: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health - Couverture rigide

Wei, Jeanne Y.; Levkoff, Sue

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 047132678X ISBN 13 : 9780471326786

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2000

Synopsis

"Excellent ...a gold mine of useful information." Ann Landers Drawing on the expertise of top specialists at Harvard Medical School, this book provides practical prescriptions for staying healthy and minimizing the effects of aging. Readers get in-depth discussions of specific physical health problems, as well as a wide range of psychological issues. They learn how to benefit from the latest medical prescriptions for preventing cancer, hypertension, depression, heart disease, respiratory ailments, and a host of other conditions associated with aging, and receive expert advice and guidance on how to work with health professionals, HMOs, and insurance companies. This book includes self-care and caregiving advice. Jeanne Wei, MD (Boston, MA), is an Associate Professor of the Division on Aging at Harvard Medical School and the Gerontology Division at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Sue Levkoff, ScD, MSW (Boston, MA), is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Professor of the Department of Health and Social Behavior in the Harvard School of Public Health.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

Aging well is living well, say leading aging experts Dr. Jeanne Wei and Dr. Sue Levkoff, both of Harvard Medical School. But how do we define aging? What are the physical and emotional changes that men and women go through as they grow older? How can we live as well as we can as long as we can?

In Aging Well: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health, Drs. Wei and Levkoff have provided us with an impeccably researched, easy–to–use reference for all our questions about our changing bodies and life issues. From advice about caring for hair, nails, and skin to tips on dealing with an uncertain health care system to words of support for caregivers, Aging Well is a definitive reference on today′s aging issues.

You′ll read about people who have met the challenges associated with aging and find the authors′ recommendations, with lists of resources, for dealing with the physical and emotional issues that arise. Whether you′re 40, 50, or older, or care for someone who is, Aging Well is a guide you′ll turn to often for the information you and your loved ones need to live longer, healthier lives.

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this definitive, prescriptive guide to all aspects of aging, the authors–both top experts on aging at Harvard Medical School–offer a complete and highly accessible reference focused on the physical and emotional issues that affect seniors and their loved ones. Here is invaluable advice on a range of topics, from lifestyle choices to retirement and insurance options to coping with loss and other life concerns. Aging Well addresses such increasingly important subjects as:

∗ Safety risks associated with growing older

∗ Alternative medicine and the right questions to ask

∗ Assisting aging parents and other challenges of the "sandwich generation"

∗ Mail–order products for seniors

∗ Healthy–aging research and potential therapies

∗ How to optimize and strengthen your health if your body is affected by illness or disease

Aging Well contains what you need to know to help you and your loved ones live fuller, healthier lives, whether you′re 40, 50, or older–because aging well is living well.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 047132678X
• ISBN 13: 9780471326786
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 374
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible