Encyclopedia of Health and Aging: The Complete Guide to Well-Being in Your Later Years - Softcover

Michaels, Evelyne

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ISBN 10: 0761508562 ISBN 13: 9780761508564

Verlag: Prima Publishing,U.S., 1997

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A warm, comprehensive guide to mental and physical health in the winter of one's life covers diet, stress, sex, exercise, backaches, memory loss, arthritis, osteoporosis, surviving the loss of a loved one, loneliness, and much more. Original. IP.

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Evelyne Michaels is an award-winning journalist who has published hundreds of articles on health and medical topics over the past 15 years. She currently edits a newsletter on women's health issues, and writes about health for several magazines.

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Understand and take control of your health and well-being with this easy-to-follow, encouraging and reassuring guide.

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as always been a challenge. But until recently, little attention was paid to the unique needs and concerns of older women and men. Most books on aging have focused on disability, or directed information toward caregivers, as though older people are somehow unable or unwilling to take responsibility for their own health and well-being.

Now there's a book which acknowledges the reality of aging, without overlooking the strength and survivorship of those who grow old. The Encyclopedia of Health and Aging, by author Evelyne Michaels, helps older people take control of their health instead of waiting passively to be cared for by others.

Prepared in cooperation with Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care one of the leading geriatric health facilities in North America the encyclopedia equips older people with vital knowledge about growing older. In this encouraging guide, readers learn:

What they can do to age well, both physica

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Prima Publishing,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0761508562
• ISBN 13: 9780761508564
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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