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Book SynopsisMany current public health actions and policies aimed at older people revolve around the often prevailing view that failing health is a consequence of ageing. It is now clear that it is possible to postpone or even prevent much of the age-related decline in health that was once thought inevitable. Future policies must recognise this changing paradigm, and, using a multi-disciplinary approach, integrate fully the changing needs of older people into all areas of public policy including health, nutrition, social support, housing, and economic security.
Derived from the 47th Annual Symposium of the Society for the Study of Human Biology in November 2005, Ageing Well: Nutrition, Health, and Social Interventions highlights important health and social factors affecting quality of life in older age, and reviews possible interventions aimed at the prevention or amelioration of problems that reduce the potential for ageing well. Covering a wide range of topics, contributors
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“…include factors leading to a deterioration of vision, social interactions of the elderly, the loss of cognitive function, social inequalities of health, interactions of demographics with family support, and three finals chapters that focus on economic issues. … sections on methods, results, discussion, conclusions, … discussion of the anorexia of aging particularly interesting. …”
—Roy J. Shephard, in the Journal of Applied Physiology, Nutrition & Metabolism, 2007
Table of ContentsIntroduction, Nutritional Concerns in Old Age, Regular Exercise—the Best Investment For Our Old Age, Major Eye Diseases of Later Life: Cataract and Age-Related Macular Degeneration, Reminiscence in Everyday Talk Between Older People and Their Carers: Implications for the Quality of Life of Older People in Care Homes, Retention of Cognitive Function in Old Age: Why Initial Intelligence is Important, Health Inequalities in Old Age in Britain, Demographic Change, Family Support, and Ageing Well: Developed Country Perspectives, Energy Efficiency and the Health of Older People, Ageing, Health, and Welfare: An Economic Perspective, Methodological Issues in Assessing the Cost Effectiveness of Interventions to Improve the Health of Older People, Minimum Income for Healthy Living: Physical Activity, Anti-ageing, Autonomy, Responding to Increasing Human Longevity: Policy, Practice, and Research, Index
