Successful Aging and Adaptation With Chronic Diseases (Springer Series on Life Styles and Issues in Aging)
Contributors: Leonard W. Poon (Editor); Sarah Hall Gueldner (Editor); Betsy M. Sprouse (Editor)
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780826119759
Subjects: Care of the elderly; Geriatric medicine; Older people; Gerontology; Geriatrics; Health Services For Older Adults; Consumer Health; Medical care; Medical; General; Chronic diseases; Health and hygiene
First sentence: The concept of successful aging was proposed by John Rowe and Robert Kahn (1987) to separate the effects of disease from the aging process itself.