Healthy Aging: a Complete Guide to Clinical Management

This book highlights both biomedical and psychosocial interventions, including lifestyle changes that promote healthy aging. The text begins with an introduction to the principles of disease prevention and health promotion with an emphasis on the impact of age on life expectancy, disease and disability. Written by experts who have an interest in healthy aging, the text highlights steps that patients and their healthcare providers can take to promote healthy aging. There is an emphasis on maintaining function and preventing disability with increasing age. Common biomedical interventions including exercise, nutrition, sleep and cancer prevention are addressed in detail. The text then shifts to address the psychosocial determinant of healthy aging including, housing, relationships, intimacy, work and spirituality. The text then outlines steps that healthcare systems and public policy agencies should adopt to promote healthy aging, both for those who are older now and for those who will be older in the future. Healthy Aging is an important resource for those working with older patients, including geriatricians, family medicine physicians, nurses, gerontologists, students, public health administrators, and all other medical professionals.

Intro; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; Contributors; 1: Healthy Aging: Definition and Scope; Age; Old Age; Age-Related Changes; Human Demographics; Healthy Aging; Why Healthy Aging Is Important; The Scope of This Book; Summary; References; 2: Disease, Disability, and Frailty with Increasing Age; Changes in the Demographics of Aging; Burden of Diseases and Comorbidities with Aging; Dementia; Obesity; Diabetes; COPD; Cancer; Depression; Cardiovascular Disease; Disability; Clinical Challenges of Multiple Comorbidities; Frailty Definition, Epidemiology, and Consequences

Frailty Definition and PhenotypesEpidemiology of Frailty; Consequences and Burden of Frailty; Conclusion; References; 3: The Principles of Disease and Disability Prevention and Health Promotion with Increasing Age; Introduction; Disease and Disability Prevention; Health Promotion; Shared Decision-Making; References; 4: The Interface Between Healthy Aging, Longevity, Disease, and Disability; Defining Healthy Aging; The Fries Model Versus the Gruenberg Model; The Connection Between Healthy Aging and Longevity; The Connection Between Chronic Disease, Function, Engagement, and Quality of Life

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