Successful Aging: Strategies for Healthy Living (Prevention in Practice Library)

This unique and user-friendly guide addresses both professionals and their clients, detailing health maintenance procedures that clients can perform for themselves. In a clear and lively style, the book describes over 40 preventive and promotive strategies for good health in older people, focusing on natural strengths the elderly possess and can develop, without ignoring inevitable limitations. All aspects of health are addressed, from the physical, through the psychosocial, to the spiritual. Each of the strategies is presented as a series of achievable steps and includes cautions where necessary. `Boxes' are interspersed throughout the text to highlight lists of useful information.

David O. Staats

This is a book about how prevention strategies can be used to help older people maximize quality of life. Its purpose is to explain the different domains in which prevention can be effective and to describe preventive strategies in each of them. All types of healing and helping professionals who have sustained contact with older people constitute the audience. Among the best features of this book are formulae for predicting target heart rate for exercise and specific exercise prescriptions for older adults as well as specific dietary recommendations. This is an excellent and useful book that will appeal broadly to those working professionally with older persons. It is affordable and practical. Its breadth ranges from specific diet and exercise recommendations to coming to grips with planning (financial, domicile), psychological, and spiritual issues. Its depth covers items such as reducing the risks of accidents at home and preventing crime. Every medical library should have this book.