The Second Fifty Years

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.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Summary
• Introduction
• Disability Classification
• High Blood Pressure
• Medications
• Risk Factors for Infection in the Elderly
• Osteoporosis
• Preventing Disability Related to Sensory Loss in the Older Adult
• Oral Health Problems in the 'Second Fifty'
• Screening for Cancer
• Nutrition
• Cigarette Smoking
• Depression
• Physical Inactivity
• Social Isolation Among Older Individuals: The Relationship to Mortality and Morbidity
• Falls in Older Persons: Risk Factors and Prevention
• Appendix A: Can Philosophy Cure What Ails the Medical Model?
• Appendix B: Looking for Order: Health Promotion, Disablity Classification System of the World Health Organization
• Index
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