Health promotion and aging : practical applications for health professionals / David Haber, PhD.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Share Health Promotion and Aging: Practical Applications for Health Professionals, Seventh Edition""; ""Chapter 1: Introduction""; ""Healthy People Initiatives""; ""Aging, Health, Social, and Medical Trends""; ""Definitions of Healthy Aging""; ""The Federal Government""; ""Extraordinary Accomplishments""; ""Prevention""; ""Wellness""; ""Antiold and Antiaging""; ""Compression of Morbidity""; ""Health Perspectives and Aging""

""Health Expectancy Versus Life Expectancy""""Physical Versus Emotional Aspects of Aging""; ""Intergenerational Conflict Over Health Care?""; ""Legislation""; ""Medicare""; ""Medicaid""; ""Social Security""; ""Health Care, Medical Care, Quality Care""; ""Health Care Versus Medical Care""; ""Chapter 2: Clinical Preventive Services""; ""Medical Screenings and Prophylaxis: Considerable Controversy""; ""Annual Physical""; ""Accuracy, Reliability, and Effectiveness of Medical Screenings""; ""Cancer Deaths""; ""Lung Cancer""; ""Breast Cancer""; ""Ductal Carcinoma In Situ""

""Mammography Controversies""""Mammography Update""; ""Prostate Cancer""; ""Treatment Options""; ""Colorectal Cancer""; ""Innovative Colorectal Cancer Screenings""; ""Other Cancers""; ""Skin Cancer""; ""Cervical Cancer""; ""Thyroid Cancer""; ""Menopause""; ""Hormone Replacement Therapy""; ""HRT Update""; ""High Blood Pressure""; ""Blood Pressure Threshold""; ""Treatment""; ""Osteoporosis""; ""Treatment""; ""Cholesterol""; ""Statins""; ""Low-Density Lipoprotein""; ""2013 Cholesterol Guidelines""; ""Statin Concerns""; ""Diabetes""; ""Hearing""; ""Vision""; ""Oral Health""; ""Hepatitis C""

""Are Screenings Going to the Dogs (and Cats)?""""Immunizations""; ""Influenza""; ""Pneumonia""; ""Tetanus""; ""Shingles""; ""Aspirin Prophylaxis""; ""The Polypill""; ""Medicare Prevention""; ""A Final Word""; ""Chapter 3: Empowering Older Adults""; ""Empowering Older Clients""; ""Community Health Promotion Programs""; ""Empowering Older Patients""; ""Communication""; ""Personality Characteristics of an Effective Health Educator""; ""How Effectively Do You Communicate?""; ""Cruising the Internet""; ""Case Study in Web Deception: drkoop.com""; ""Websites""; ""Electronic Resources""

""Selected Communication Barriers""""Cross-Cultural Communication""; ""Communication With Older Patients""; ""Jargon""; ""Elderspeak""; ""Health Behavior Change""; ""Assessments and Interventions""; ""Health Risk Appraisals""; ""A Reflective Health Assessment""; ""Stages of Change""; ""Health Contracts""; ""10 Tips for Changing Health Behaviors""; ""Health Behavior Theories""; ""Behavioral and Cognitive Management""; ""Healthy Pleasures""; ""Social Cognitive Theory""; ""Self-Efficacy""; ""Health Locus of Control""; ""Health Belief Model""; ""Other Theories""; ""Theories Versus Concepts""

The seventh edition of this classic text champions healthy aging by demonstrating how to prevent or manage disease and make large-scale improvements toward health and wellness in the older adult population. The text synthesizes state-of-the-art research findings-providing convincing evidence that health promotion truly works-with practical, effective strategies. Encompassing important research results that supplant prior recommendations, this new edition provides updated best practices and strategies to ensure the active participation of older adults in all aspects of life. Completely re.

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