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 which affect older women and discrimination against
older women in health care. This informative book assists health
care professionals in the provision of services to older women,
helping these professionals become catalysts for enabling older
women to "overcome adversity" and continue to lead healthy,
productive lives.Many of the most common diseases and age-related
changes that affect older women are not "curable." In a society
which stresses "cure" as the appropriate role for health care
professionals, what are these professionals to do with the legions
of older women for whom "cures" may not be possible? How can they
assist older women in preventing or slowing the occurrences of
diseases and age-related changes? When prevention or cure is not
possible, how can they assist older women in living productive,
meaningful lives?By addressing specific conditions and diseases,
Women and Healthy Aging gives readers focused information on
current treatment options, preventative strategies, and suggestions
for productive living which are disease- or condition-specific and
target older women. Some of the topics covered include menopause,
osteoporosis, arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, cancer,
Alzheimer's disease, and sensory loss. Practitioners, educators,
and students in the fields of nursing, social work, physical
therapy, occupational therapy, gerontology, human services, and
medicine will find this book an illuminating source of valuable
information and insights into the aging process for women.
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