Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Integrated Care and Fall Prevention in Active and Healthy Aging
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Integrated Care and Fall Prevention in Active and Healthy Aging

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2021-06-25
  • -
  • Publisher: IGI Global

In today’s world, healthy aging and a fulfilling lifestyle are important to older members of society, with many opting to remain as independent and mobile as possible for as long as possible. However, elderly individuals tend to have a variety of functional limitations that can increase the likelihood of debilitating falls and injuries. Assessments of functionality are very often only performed following an accident, which implies a hindsight bias because results do not necessarily reflect pre-accidental performance capacities. Furthermore, these belated measures do little to reduce the likelihood of new falls. As such, it is imperative that personalized preventative approaches are taken t...

Physical and Cognitive Frailty in the Elderly: An Interdisciplinary Approach
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 140
Active and Healthy Aging and Quality of Life: Interventions and Outlook for the Future
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 609

Active and Healthy Aging and Quality of Life: Interventions and Outlook for the Future

The continuous growth of older adult populations, as a consequence of demographic changes, is a huge challenge. To prevent costly and negative impacts effects on the population as a whole, it is crucial that societies increase their knowledge of promoting good health among older adults, to promote good health and a better quality of life in their later years. Active aging is the process of optimizing opportunities for health, participation, and security in order to enhance quality of life as people age. An active and healthy life has remained one of the most important aspirations for all people, both young and older adults alike. This ambition has become a genuine possibility for many due to...

Intrinsic capacity and resilience vs frailty: On the way to healthy aging
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160
Aging-friendly environments and healthy aging
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Aging-friendly environments and healthy aging

None

Social Indicators of Well-Being
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 462

Social Indicators of Well-Being

This is a study about perceptions of well-being. Its purpose is to investigate how these perceptions are organized in the minds of different groups of American adults, to find valid and efficient ways of measuring these percep tions, to suggest ways these measurement methods could be implemented to yield a series of social indicators, and to provide some initial readings on these indicators; i.e., some information about the levels of well-being perceived by Americans. The findings are based on data from more than five thousand Americans and include results from four separate representative samplings of the American population. One of the ways our research is unusual is that it includes a maj...