Promoting the Health of Older People

by Chiva, Anthony Chiva, David Stears

Overview

Health promotion makes an important contribution to the knowledge and understanding of the health and well-being of older people. This work focuses on a range of issues which underpin older people's health and identifies ways health can be promoted. It reviews lifestyles, psychological well-being, a creative look at citizenship, grief, sexuality and travel health. Other specific areas include accident prevention, residential homes and productive ageing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335204380
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Publication date:	07/01/2001
Series:	Rethinking Aging Series
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

Table of Contents

Series editor's preface - Foreword - Part One: Promoting the Health of Older People - Part Two: Principles to Practice - Practical health promotion: what have we learned so far? - Inequalities in health-related behaviour - Inter-generational health promotion and active citizenship - Lifeskills: from adaption to transcendence - The ageless self: exploring holism - Part Three: Practical Issues in Health Promotion with Older People - Health and productive ageing, including work, volunteering and purposive ageing - Health promotion and sexuality in later life - Developing an innovative fall-prevention strategy in a primary care setting - Understanding and working with grief and loss - Health promoting residential settings - Health and the older traveller: issues for health promotion - Index.