The Active Aging Toolkit
Author : Phil Page
Publisher :
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Exercise for older people
ISBN :
World Report on Ageing and Health
Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9241565047
Book Description
The WHO World report on ageing and health is not for the book shelf it is a living breathing testament to all older people who have fought for their voice to be heard at all levels of government across disciplines and sectors. - Mr Bjarne Hastrup President International Federation on Ageing and CEO DaneAge This report outlines a framework for action to foster Healthy Ageing built around the new concept of functional ability. This will require a transformation of health systems away from disease based curative models and towards the provision of older-person-centred and integrated care. It will require the development sometimes from nothing of comprehensive systems of long term care. It will require a coordinated response from many other sectors and multiple levels of government. And it will need to draw on better ways of measuring and monitoring the health and functioning of older populations. These actions are likely to be a sound investment in society's future. A future that gives older people the freedom to live lives that previous generations might never have imagined. The World report on ageing and health responds to these challenges by recommending equally profound changes in the way health policies for ageing populations are formulated and services are provided. As the foundation for its recommendations the report looks at what the latest evidence has to say about the ageing process noting that many common perceptions and assumptions about older people are based on outdated stereotypes. The report's recommendations are anchored in the evidence comprehensive and forward-looking yet eminently practical. Throughout examples of experiences from different countries are used to illustrate how specific problems can be addressed through innovation solutions. Topics explored range from strategies to deliver comprehensive and person-centred services to older populations to policies that enable older people to live in comfort and safety to ways to correct the problems and injustices inherent in current systems for long-term care.
Promoting physical activity for older people: a toolkit for action
Author : World Health Organization
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 20,66 MB
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9240076646
Book Description
This ACTIVE toolkit provides evidence-based guidance on the key approaches to promote and enable older people to be physically active, regardless of who they are, where they live, or their intrinsic capacities (for example their visual or cognitive abilities) or whether they live with chronic conditions (for example, diabetes, hypertension, and arthritis). It is designed to support all countries at national and subnational levels (particularly low- and middle-income countries with limited resources) to ensure that environments and settings support older people to be active, and that they provide physical activity services and programmes tailored to the needs, preferences and goals of all older people.
The Cambridge Handbook of Successful Aging
Author : Rocío Fernández-Ballesteros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 969 pages
File Size : 15,12 MB
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1108641431
Book Description
Recent studies show that more people than ever before are reaching old age in better health and enjoying that health for a longer time. This Handbook outlines the latest discoveries in the study of aging from bio-medicine, psychology, and socio-demography. It treats the study of aging as a multidisciplinary scientific subject, since it requires the interplay of broad disciplines, while offering high motivation, positive attitudes, and behaviors for aging well, and lifestyle changes that will help people to stay healthier across life span and in old age. Written by leading scholars from various academic disciplines, the chapters delve into the most topical aspects of aging today - including biological mechanisms of aging, aging with health, active and productive aging, aging with satisfaction, aging with respect, and aging with dignity. Aimed at health professionals as well as general readers, this Cambridge Handbook offers a new, positive approach to later life.
Age-Friendly Health Systems
Author : Terry Fulmer
Publisher : Institute for Healthcare Improvement (Ihi)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,60 MB
Release : 2022-02
Category : Older people
ISBN : 9781544527505
Book Description
According to the US Census Bureau, the US population aged 65+ years is expected to nearly double over the next 30 years, from 43.1 million in 2012 to an estimated 83.7 million in 2050. These demographic advances, however extraordinary, have left our health systems behind as they struggle to reliably provide evidence-based practice to every older adult at every care interaction. Age-Friendly Health Systems is an initiative of The John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), in partnership with the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA), designed Age-Friendly Health Systems to meet this challenge head on. Age-Friendly Health Systems aim to: Follow an essential set of evidence-based practices; Cause no harm; and Align with What Matters to the older adult and their family caregivers.
Healthy Aging
Author : Patrick P. Coll
Publisher : Springer
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2019-03-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 3030062007
Book Description
This book weaves all of these factors together to engage in and promote medical, biomedical and psychosocial interventions, including lifestyle changes, for healthier aging outcomes. The text begins with an introduction to age-related changes that increase in disease and disability commonly associated with old age. Written by experts in healthy aging, the text approaches the principles of disease and disability prevention via specific health issues. Each chapter highlights the challenge of not just increasing life expectancy but also deceasing disease burden and disability in old age. The text then shifts into the whole-person implications for clinicians working with older patients, including the social and cultural considerations that are necessary for improved outcomes as Baby Boomers age and healthcare systems worldwide adjust. Healthy Aging is an important resource for those working with older patients, including geriatricians, family medicine physicians, nurses, gerontologists, students, public health administrators, and all other medical professionals.
Aging Well in Communities
Author : Linda V. Peek
Publisher :
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 29,69 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Boomers overwhelmingly want to age in place. Yet few communities are prepared to meet the needs of older residents, or to engage these residents in civic life. In response, the Center for Civic Partnerships created Aging Well in Communities: A Toolkit for Planning, Engagement & Action. This toolkit includes: a community planning overview, which presents key elements of a healthy aging planning process; step-by-step guides for three important data-gathering activities: 1. resident surveys 2. public forums 3. focus groups; case studies that show how seven communities are addressing the needs of an aging population; and a resource list of web sites and organizations offering valuable information on aging-related issues.
Ebersole & Hess' Toward Healthy Aging E-Book
Author : Theris A. Touhy
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 47,70 MB
Release : 2019-08-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0323597904
Book Description
Ensure you thoroughly understand the intricate details of providing effective care for adults as they age. Ebersole & Hess’ Toward Healthy Aging, 10th Edition is the only comprehensive gerontological nursing text that effectively communicates how to provide holistic care, promote healthy lives, and address end-of-life issues and concerns. Grounded in the core competencies recommended by the AACN in collaboration with the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing, the tenth edition has been extensively revised and updated with shorter, more streamlined chapters and pedagogical features to facilitate learning. It covers the areas of safety and ethical considerations, genetics, communication with the patient and caregiver, promoting health in persons with conditions commonly occurring in later-life world-wide addressing loss and palliative care and much more. Special sections provide an honest look at the universal experience of aging and the nurse’s role in the reduction of health disparities and inequities as a member of the global community. Plus, it contains a variety of new learning features that focus on applying research and thinking critically in when providing care to aging adults across the care continuum.
The Aging Gracefully Pathway
Author : Cheryl Townsend Winter
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781494876784
Book Description
Did you know that gum disease has been linked to serious systemic aging diseases like diabetes, heart disease and stroke, cancer, and even Alzheimer's Disease? When author and periodontist Cheryl Townsend Winter, DDS, MSD, MBA, heard this research and she realized the potential impact of gum disease on aging, she took note. And she decided she would enter her sixties actively pursuing a long and healthy life, maybe even to the full life potential of the human body of 120 years. Adding aging-specific research to her years of experience in the health sciences field, Winter hunted down the enemies of aging and the practical ways to combat them. The Aging Gracefully Pathway is her easy-to-read guide that explains the aging process basics—covering the outer body, the brain, and the internal functions—and offers concrete steps toward better aging. Learn how healthy eating, exercise, and sleep can help you experience the good life well past sixty. It's never too late to start a good habit. And sometimes it's as easy as adding a little more spice to your diet—like cinnamon, which is antibacterial, antifungal, and reduces blood sugar levels, among other things. Offering practical everyday advice that makes biologic sense, The Aging Gracefully Pathway shares expert tips with readers on how to tap into their personal power to change the face of aging.
Building Evidence for Active Ageing Policies
Author : Asghar Zaidi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 2018-02-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9811060177
Book Description
This book provides multinational evidence on active and healthy ageing. It generates authoritative new knowledge for mutual learning and policymaking in addressing challenges linked with population ageing. The authors discuss how to achieve better active ageing outcomes through appropriate policies including addressing life course determinants of active and healthy ageing. The chapters are distinctive in their focus on quantitative analysis of active and healthy ageing based on a first-of-its-kind composite measure, the Active Ageing Index developed during the 2012 European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations. Contributors include researchers, civil service representatives, policymakers and other stakeholders from national, regional and European organisations. This edited volume provides a multidisciplinary resource for academics and policy makers in various areas of the social sciences, especially those studying population ageing and its consequences, economists, sociologists, social policy analysts and public health experts.
