The Second Fifty Years: Promoting Health and Preventing Disability

Institute of Medicine

doi:10.17226/1578

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The Second Fifty Years

Promoting Health and Preventing Disability

(1992)

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Taking its title from the second 50 years of the human life span of about 100 years, this book presents wide-ranging and practical recommendations for health care providers, policymakers, and other sectors of society. These recommendations range from setting new national policies to changing the way elderly patients are interviewed in the doctor's office and from what exercises older persons should do to how city planners should design our urban environment.

The bulk of this volume presents the latest research on 13 major health threats to the elderly, covering prevalence, impact on the older person's life, cost, and intervention.

In addition, the authors provide a detailed analysis of why older people often do not receive the benefit of prevention programs.

Contributor(s): Institute of Medicine; Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Topics

Health and Medicine — Aging

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Institute of Medicine. 1992. The Second Fifty Years: Promoting Health and Preventing Disability. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/1578.

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344 pages | 6 x 9 | Paperback
ISBN: 978-0-309-04681-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/1578

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-xii
Summary	1-10
Introduction	11-21
Disability Classification	22-32
High Blood Pressure	33-52
Medications	53-64
Risk Factors for Infection in the Elderly	65-75
Osteoporosis	76-100
Preventing Disability Related to Sensory Loss in the Older Adult	101-118
Oral Health Problems in the 'Second Fifty'	119-135
Screening for Cancer	136-156
Nutrition	157-192
Cigarette Smoking	193-201
Depression	202-223
Physical Inactivity	224-242
Social Isolation Among Older Individuals: The Relationship to Mortality and Morbidity	243-262
Falls in Older Persons: Risk Factors and Prevention	263-290
Appendix A: Can Philosophy Cure What Ails the Medical Model?	291-310
Appendix B: Looking for Order: Health Promotion, Disablity Classification System of the World Health Organization	311-320
Index	321-332

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