Health Promotion and Aging, Eighth Edition: Practical Applications for Health Professionals

This acclaimed text promotes healthy aging by demonstrating how health practitioners, program developers, and policymakers can prevent or manage disease and make large-scale improvements toward health and wellness in the older adult population. The eighth edition encompasses major new research that substantially updates previous recommendations. It provides important new content on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the ACA; clinical preventive services; global aging; sexual health; saving for retirement; long-term care alternatives; and much more.New to the Eighth Edition:Updated research findings, demographics, figures, and statistics regarding health/social/medicaltrends/exercise/weight managementNew content on global aging, sexual health, and substance abuseNew information on medical screening recommendations, cancer treatments, complementary and alternative medicine, and moreNew findings regarding mental health and older adultsSignificant updates to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and the ACAExpanded section on global health and older adultsUpgraded instructor support packageKey Features:Provides an interdisciplinary view of how practitioners, program developers, and policymakers can improve health and wellness in older adultsDescribes successful community and government model programs and initiativesDelivers health-promoting tools, resource lists, checklists, and assessment toolsOffers key terms, learning objectives, critical-thinking questions and reflection boxesIncludes a robust instructor packageBook detailsPage Numbers Source ISBN:0826184928Publisher:Springer Publishing Company; 8 edition (August 14, 2019)Publication Date:August 14, 2019Language:EnglishASIN:B07R8CHC7D