Published March, 2018
By Karin Volkwein-Caplan and Jasmin Tahmaseb McConatha
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Due to a rapdily increasing ageing population, health promotion for the elderly is becoming an increasingly important issue in public policy and planning. This book examines the challenges presented by an ageing global population, our varying expectations of healthy ageing, and the importance of exercise and physical activity for the elderly.

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Published March, 2018
By Mary Ann Ottinger
Publisher: Elsevier (Academic Press Inc)
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Published February, 2018
By Georg Felser
Publisher: Springer
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Er zeigt auf, dass unterschiedliche Lebenserfahrungen und Alterungsprozesse dafur sorgen, dass altere Konsumentinnen und Konsumenten eine besonders vielfaltige Zielgruppe bilden und es dennoch charakteristische Entwicklungen gibt, die das hoehere Lebensalter unweigerlich mit sich bringt.

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Published February, 2018
By Sarah Harper, Asghar Zaidi, Dr Asghar Zaidi, Kenneth Howse, Giovanni Lamura and Jolanta Perek-Bialas
Publisher: Springer (Springer Verlag, Singapore)
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This book provides multinational evidence on active and healthy ageing. The chapters are distinctive in their focus on quantitative analysis of active and healthy ageing based on a first-of-its-kind composite measure, the Active Ageing Index developed during the 2012 European Year for Active Ageing and Solidarity between Generations.

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Published February, 2018
By Raimund Pousset
Publisher: Springer (Springer vs)
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Published February, 2018
By Kenneth F. Ferraro
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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The Gerontological Imagination provides an integrative paradigm of aging that makes it the first book to identify intellectual common ground among scholars studying aging. Ferraro identifies an underlying set of principles that constitute a paradigm for the study of aging: causality, life course analysis, multifaceted change, heterogeneity, accumulation processes, and ageism.

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Published February, 2018
By Andrew Weil, Mikhail Kogan and Dr. Andrew Weil
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Weil Integrative Medicine Library
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Published January, 2018
By Benjamin T. Mast and Brian P. Yochim
Publisher: Hogrefe Publishing
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Published January, 2018
By Pol Maria Rommens and Alexander Hofmann
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
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Hip fractures, proximal humerus fractures, distal radius fractures and fractures of the vertebral column are the most common. With the sharp increase of these fractures and the lacking consensus, Fragility Fractures of the Pelvis will become indispensable for the physicians who take care of elderly patients with this pathology.

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Published January, 2018
By James Chalmers, Stefano Aliberti and Eva Polverino
Publisher: Springer (Springer International Publishing AG)
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This book presents state of the art knowledge and practice in the rapidly developing field of bronchiectasis not due to cystic fibrosis.

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