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 management
• New content on global aging, sexual health, and substance abuse
• New information on medical screening recommendations, cancer treatments, complementary and alternative medicine, and more
• New findings regarding mental health and older adults
• Significant updates to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and the ACA
• Expanded section on global health and older adults
• Upgraded instructor support package

Key Features

• Provides an interdisciplinary view of how practitioners, program developers, and policymakers can improve health and wellness in older adults
• Describes successful community and government model programs and initiatives
• Delivers health-promoting tools, resource lists, checklists, and assessment tools
• Offers key terms, learning objectives, critical-thinking questions and reflection boxes
• Includes a robust instructor package

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Book Details

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Edition: Eighth Edition
• Publication Date: August 14, 2019
• Language: English