Description
Renowned specialists on aging explore the meaning of prevention and provide practical information about programs and services for the elderly. Interesting chapters focus on the prevention of long-term care institutionalization, alternative health delivery systems, informal support networks, and the prevention of domestic neglect and abuse of elderly adults.
Table of Contents
ContentsPreface
- Introduction
- Social Policies and Programs for the Elderly as Mechanisms of Prevention
- The Status of Preventive Care for the Aged: A Meta-Analysis
- Healthy Aging Through Knowledge and Self-Care
- Targeting Community Services to High-Risk Elders: Toward Preventing Long-Term Care Institutionalization
- Prevention of Unnecessary Geriatric Deaths: Differential Rate of Morbidity/Mortality on Admission to Long Term Care Facilities
- An Alternative Health Delivery System for the Chronically Ill Elderly
- Health, Prevention, and Television: Images of the Elderly and Perceptions of Social Reality
- Older Women and Informal Supports: Impact on Prevention
- Opportunities for Prevention of Domestic Neglect and Abuse of the Elderly
