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Healthy Aging, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine
- 1st Edition, Volume 36-4 - October 12, 2020
- Editor: Susan M. Friedman
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 5 7 2 0 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 7 5 7 2 1 - 8
This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Dr. Susan Friedman, is devoted to Healthy Aging. Articles in this issue include: Healthy Aging Across the Stages of Old… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Dr. Susan Friedman, is devoted to Healthy Aging. Articles in this issue include: Healthy Aging Across the Stages of Old Age, How Geriatric Principles Inform Healthy Aging, Multimorbidity, Function and Cognition in Aging, Preserving Cognition, Preventing Dementia, Preserving Engagement, Nurturing Resilience, The Frailty Cycle: Reducing frailty to promote healthy aging, Addressing Obesity to Promote Healthy Aging, Lifestyle (Medicine) and Healthy Aging, Nutrition and Healthy Aging, Physical Activity and Healthy Aging, Mindfulness, Stress, and Aging, The Role of Prevention in Healthy Aging, Best Practices for Promoting Healthy Aging, Getting from Here to There: Motivational Interviewing and Other Techniques to Promote Healthy Aging, and more.
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Clinics in Geriatric Medicine
- Preface
- Healthy Aging Across the Stages of Old Age
- Key points
- Definitions
- Models of healthy aging
- Dilemmas, solutions, and opportunities
- Goals of healthy aging across the stages of old age
- Moving forward
- How Do Geriatric Principles Inform Healthy Aging?
- Key points
- Healthy aging as a core objective for geriatric medicine
- Conceptual and content overlap between geriatrics and lifestyle medicine
- Low-tech, high-touch approach
- Appreciation of environmental and structural forces on outcomes
- Focus on person-centered treatment and functional optimization
- Multimorbidity, Function, and Cognition in Aging
- Key points
- Defining comorbidity and multimorbidity
- Mechanism of disease and disability
- Effects of multimorbidity on outcomes
- Preserving Cognition, Preventing Dementia
- Key points
- Introduction
- Early life risk: education
- Midlife risk factors
- Late-life risk factors
- Summary of Lancet Commission
- Others
- Summary
- Preserving Engagement, Nurturing Resilience
- Key points
- Introduction
- Engagement
- Resilience
- Summary
- Reducing Frailty to Promote Healthy Aging
- Key points
- Introduction
- Definition
- Components of frailty
- Epidemiology
- The cycle of life
- Progression of frailty (frailty spectrum)
- Pathophysiology of frailty
- The frailty framework
- Risk factors for frailty
- Clinical assessment/screening tools
- Screening tools for frailty
- Complications of frailty
- Tips to reduce frailty and promote healthy aging
- Summary
- Addressing Obesity to Promote Healthy Aging
- Key points
- Introduction
- Epidemiology of obesity in older adults
- Changes in body composition
- Consequences of obesity
- Obesity paradox
- Benefits of weight loss in older adults
- Risks of weight loss
- Importance of treating obesity to promote health aging
- Lifestyle (Medicine) and Healthy Aging
- Key points
- Introduction
- The impact of lifestyle on health
- Trends in health and longevity
- What is lifestyle medicine?
- What is healthy aging?
- Evidence that lifestyle contributes to healthy aging
- Lifestyle and chronic disease
- Lifestyle and disability
- Lifestyle and cognitive decline
- Lifestyle and engagement
- Lifestyle, sarcopenia, and frailty
- Summary
- Nutrition and Healthy Aging
- Key points
- Nutrition and aging
- Framework and overview of dietary and nutrient needs of older adults
- Body composition
- Physiologic changes
- Psychological and social factors
- Comorbidity and polypharmacy
- Intake
- Energy
- Macronutrients: what is the optimal energy source?
- Fat
- Carbohydrates
- Fiber
- Protein
- Fluid
- Salt
- Micronutrients
- Dietary assessment
- Food insecurity and health: screen, intervene, and advocate for change
- Dietary recommendations that support healthy aging
- Physical Activity and Healthy Aging
- Key points
- Introduction
- Changes to the musculoskeletal system with age
- Benefits of exercise for healthy aging
- Types of exercise
- Summary
- Mindfulness, Stress, and Aging
- Key points
- Introduction
- Content
- Summary
- The Role of Prevention in Healthy Aging
- Key points
- Introduction
- Opportunities in “Welcome to Medicare” and “Annual Wellness Visits”
- Targeting impactful outcomes
- Population health management: a model for prevention
- Summary
- Best Practices for Promoting Healthy Aging
- Key points
- Blue zones
- Experience corps
- The age-friendly movement
- Getting from Here to There: Motivational Interviewing and Other Techniques to Promote Healthy Aging
- Key points
- Introduction
- Essential elements of effective health coaching
- Matching interventions to change readiness
- Health motives of older adults and their capacity to make change
- Multiple levels of influence on health behaviors
- Health behavior change tools
- The role of memory and health literacy in behavior change
- The role of the provider-patient relationship in the change process
- Motivational interviewing
- Appreciative inquiry
- Cognitive behavioral techniques
- The 5 A’s technique
- Positive psychology techniques for health behavior coaching
- Research needs
- Discussion
- No. of pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 36-4
- Published: October 12, 2020
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323757201
- eBook ISBN: 9780323757218
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Susan M. Friedman
Affiliations and expertise
University of Rochester, School of Medicine and Dentistry