Health promotion and disease prevention in the older adult
Subtitle: interventions and recommendations
By: Elizabeth A. Swanson, Toni Tripp-Reimer, and Kathleen Buckwalter, editors.
Contributors: Swanson, Elizabeth A.; Tripp-Reimer, Toni, 1946-; Buckwalter, Kathleen Coen.
Series: Advances in gerontological nursing
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
Subjects: Geriatric nursing -- United States; Older people -- Health and hygiene -- United States; Older people -- Medical care -- United States; Health promotion -- United States; Preventive health services for older people -- United States; Health Promotion -- Aged; Patient Education -- Aged; Hygiene -- Aged; Preventive Medicine -- Aged; Health Services for the Aged -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Exercise interventions / Jean F. Wyman; title: Nutrition / Ronni Chernoff; title: Arthritis self-management / Kate Lorig; title: Oral health / Ronald L. Ettinger; title: Smoking cessation among older clients / Kathleen A. O'Connell; title: Reducing falls among older adults residing in the community / Dorothy I. Baker; title: Urinary continence : prevention focused research / Mary H. Palmer; title: Prevention of cancer in the elderly / Robert B. Wallace; title: Premature coronary heart disease : a family affair / Diane M. Becker, Raphael Yook; title: Immunizations / Jurgis Karuza; title: Interventions with elderly African American diabetics / Barbara Holder; title: Health promotion for older adults in a managed care environment / Barbara A. Given, Charles W. Given; title: The public health paradigm and aging research / Robert L. Kane.