Effective health behavior in older adults

Effective health behavior in older adults / K. Warner Schaie, Howard Leventhal, Sherry L. Willis, editors.

In what ways do health behaviors and societal mechanisms help or discourage individuals in assuming responsibility for their health? Highly-esteemed and diverse contributors examine the health behaviors of older adults and the ways in which these behaviors are affected by societal trends. The volume...

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Other Authors: Schaie, K. Warner (Klaus Warner), 1928-2023, Leventhal, Howard, PhD, Willis, Sherry L., 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer Pub. Co., ©2002.
Series:Societal impact on aging.
Subjects:
Older people > Health and hygiene.
Health behavior > Age factors.
Aging.
Geriatrics.
Health behavior.
Older people.
Health attitudes.
Social ecology.
elderly.
human ecology.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Healthy Living.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Reference.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Holism.
Social ecology
Older people
Health behavior
Health attitudes
Aging
Geriatrics
Health behavior > Age factors
Older people > Health and hygiene
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Table of Contents:
  • Contributors; Preface; 1 Biosocial Considerations in Chronic Illness Perceptions and Decisions; 2 Linear and Dynamical Thinking about Psychosocial Factors and Cardiovascular Risk; 3 A Cognitive-Affective Analysis of Cancer Behavior in the Elderly: Are You as Healthy as You Feel?; 4 Psychosocial Factors in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease; 5 Ethnicity and Psychosocial Factors in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention; 6 Getting Help to Those Most Likely to Benefit: Patient Characteristics and Treatment Success.
  • Biosocial Considerations in Chronic Illness Perceptions and Decisions / Tom Hickey
  • Linear and Dynamical Thinking about Psychosocial Factors and Cardiovascular Risk / Jerry Suls and René Martin
  • Commentary : Acute and Chronic Psychological Processes in Cardiovascular Disease / Derek W. Johnston
  • A Cognitive-Affective Analysis of Cancer Behavior in the Elderly : Are You as Healthy as You Feel? / Suzanne M. Miller, James C. Knowles, Robert Schnoll, and Joanne Buzaglo
  • Commentary : Beyond the Sociodemographics : From Prediction to Explanation of the Effects of Gender and Social Deprivation in Recovery from Myocardial Infarction / Marie Johnston, Hannah McGee, Elspeth Graham, and Malcolm MacLeod
  • Psychosocial Factors in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease / Lynda H. Powell
  • Ethnicity and Psycosocial Factors in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention / Keith E. Whitfield, Tamara A. Baker, and Dwayne T. Brandon
  • Getting Help to Those Most Likely to Benefit : Patient Characteristics and Treatment Success / John C. Barefoot
  • Exercise Interventions and Aging : Psychological and Physical Health Benefits in Older Adults / James A. Blumenthal and Elizabeth C.D. Gullete
  • Commentary : Challenges to Using Exercise Interventions in Older Adults / Edith A. Burns
  • How Provider Payment Policies Affect the Health-Care-Seeking Behavior of the Elderly / Bruce Stuart
  • Commentary : Third-Party Payors and the Patient-Professional Relationship / Bryan E. Dowd
  • Commentary : Factors Affecting Health-Care-Seeking Behavior of the Elderly / Pearl S. German
  • The Potential for Health Care Organizations to Promote Maintenance and Change in Health Behaviors Among the Elderly / William Rakowski and Melissa A. Clark
  • Commentary : Health Maintenance Organizations for the Elderly Patient? / Elaine Leventhal
  • Commentary : Health Care Organizational Structure, Prevention, and Health Behavior Among the Elderly / Stephen Crystal
  • Afterword : Health Behavior and the Elderly : How Do We Understand Its Determinants and Their Goals? / Howard Leventhal.

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