| Successful Aging: Strategies for Healthy Living Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Bloom, Martin (Author), Klein, Waldo C. (Author) |
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ISBN: 030645663X ISBN-13: 9780306456633 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1997 Annotation: A user-friendly guide for both professionals and their clients, "Successful Aging" details over 40 preventive, protective, and promotive strategies for good health, effective procedures that clients can perform for themselves. The authors focus on the natural strengths older persons possess or can develop, without ignoring the limitations of aging. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Life Stages - Later Years - Medical | Geriatrics - Medical | Public Health |
| Dewey: 362.198 |
| LCCN: 97029189 |
| Series: Prevention in Practice Library (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 8.95" (0.80 lbs) 212 pages |
| Themes: - Generational Orientation - Elderly/Aged |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: There is a near-universal folk saying that everyone wishes to live a good long life, but no one wishes for old age. More contemporarily, the rock and roll band, Little Feat, sang, "You know that you're over the hill when your mind's making promises your body can't fill. " This book is about the good long life. It is a book about primary prevention strategies in the aging process; it is not about preventing that process. It is not about being old. Instead, it is about the things that individuals - and the helping professionals who provide them with counsel and assistance - can do to prevent the preventable problems of advancing age, and to better manage those changes in functioning that cannot be prevented. In short, it is about extending all our capacities to the fullest so that we can better keep all those promises that we make to ourselves and others. Aging is a life-long process. We focus here on the changes that are taking place in our selves and in our society as we age. In particular, we focus on what we can do to affect these changes by the choices we make and how we live. This book offers primary prevention strategies for mature and older adults, with the recognition that mature adulthood starts as soon as we are old enough to truly appreciate our active role in our own aging processes. |