| Description |
1 online resource (250 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Editors; Introduction; Adaptations; Healthy Older Women-In Spite of It All; After Menopause; Menopause; Osteoporosis and Older Women: Productive Lifestyle Strategies; Living Productively with Arthritis; The Older Woman with Diabetes Mellitus; Heart Disease and Older Women; Women, Aging, and Cancer; Alzheimer's Disease and Older Women; Living Productively with Sensory Loss; Discrimination Against Older Women in Health Care; Public Policy, Health Care and Older Women; Women and Healthy Aging: Conclusion; At Eighty |
| Summary |
This book explores what is known about healthy living among older women, emphasizing overcoming illness and adversity. Women and Healthy Aging focuses on common age-related changes and illnesses that frequently occur among women in the later years. It describes these diseases and changes, provides treatment options, highlights preventative measures, and offers suggestions for continued productive living as women age. Since some of the barriers to effective diagnoses, treatments, and implementation of productive living strategies are institutional, two chapters explore public health policies wh |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Older women -- Diseases.
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Adjustment (Psychology) in old age.
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Older women -- Health and hygiene
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Older women -- Mental health
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Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age.
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Older women -- Medical care -- United States
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Women -- Health and hygiene.
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Quality of life.
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Women's health services.
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Women's Health
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Aging -- physiology
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Quality of Life
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Women's Health Services
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quality of life.
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Women's health services
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Women -- Health and hygiene
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Quality of life
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Adjustment (Psychology) in old age
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Older women -- Diseases
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Older women -- Health and hygiene
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Self-actualization (Psychology) in old age
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Young, Alice A
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| ISBN |
9781317823407 |
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1317823400 |
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