Public health and aging
Subtitle: an introduction to maximizing education and well being
By: Steven M. Albert.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
Subjects: Community health services for older people; Preventive health services for older people; Older people -- Medical care; Public health
Description: "This text provides a framework and a first synthesis of a burgeoning literature in geriatrics, gerontology, occupational therapy, epidemiology, demography, neuropsychology, rehabilitation medicine, social work, and public policy." "Key concepts and tools that define the field of public health and aging such as cohort analysis, the lifetable, age-sex pyramids, and risk stratification are presented. A synthesis of the most productive measures of healthy aging, also of "successful aging" and frailty; sample studies; and clinical trials that address the question of age, health, and healthy old age are also included."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.