Women and healthy aging : living productively in spite of it all / J. Dianne Garner, Alice A. Young, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Garner, J. Dianne.

Young, Alice Adam.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Older women--Diseases.

Older women.

Adjustment (Psychology) in old age.

Older women--Health and hygiene.

Older women--Mental health.

Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age.

Older women--Medical care--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (250 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1993, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores what is known about healthy living among older women, emphasizing overcoming illness and adversity. Women and Healthy Aging focuses on common age-related changes and illnesses that frequently occur among women in the later years. It describes these diseases and changes, provides treatment options, highlights preventative measures, and offers suggestions for continued productive living as women age. Since some of the barriers to effective diagnoses, treatments, and implementation of productive living strategies are institutional, two chapters explore public health policies wh

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Editors; Introduction; Adaptations; Healthy Older Women-In Spite of It All; After Menopause; Menopause; Osteoporosis and Older Women: Productive Lifestyle Strategies; Living Productively with Arthritis; The Older Woman with Diabetes Mellitus; Heart Disease and Older Women; Women, Aging, and Cancer; Alzheimer's Disease and Older Women; Living Productively with Sensory Loss; Discrimination Against Older Women in Health Care; Public Policy, Health Care and Older Women; Women and Healthy Aging: Conclusion; At Eighty

Index

Notes:

First publisbed 1993 by The Haworth Press, Inc.

Women and healthy aging : living productively in spite of it all has also been published as Journal of women & aging, volume 5, numbers 3/4, 1993.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 1, 2014).

ISBN:

1-56023-049-5

1-315-82061-7

1-317-82339-7

1-317-82340-0

9781315820613

OCLC:

958100581