Extending Life Enhancing Life

Author : Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,Committee on a National Research Agenda on Aging
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309043991

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Extending Life, Enhancing Life by Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,Committee on a National Research Agenda on Aging Pdf

Americans are living longer than ever before. For many, though, these extra years have become a bitter gift, marred by dementia, disability, and loss of independence. Extending Life, Enhancing Life sets the course toward practical solutions to these problems by specifying 15 research priorities in five key areas of investigation: Basic biomedicine-To understand the fundamental processes of aging. Clinical-To intervene against common disabilities and maladies of older persons. Behavioral and social-To build on past successes with behavioral and social interventions. Health services delivery-To seek answers to the troubling issues of insufficient delivery of health care in the face of increasing health care costs. Biomedical ethics-To clarify underlying ethical guidelines about life and death decisions. Most important, the volume firmly establishes the connection between research and its beneficial results for the quality of life for older persons.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Economic, Governance, and International Studies
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780309152013

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Grand Challenges of Our Aging Society by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Center for Economic, Governance, and International Studies Pdf

Aging populations are generating both challenges and opportunities for societies around the globe. Increases in longevity and improvements in health raise many questions. What steps can be taken to optimize physical and cognitive health and productivity across the life span? How will older people finance their retirement and health care? What will be the macroeconomic implications of an aging population? How will communities be shaped by the shift in age structure? What global interconnections will affect how each society handles the aging of its population? To address these questions, the National Academies organized a symposium, summarized in the present volume, to determine how best to contribute to an evidence-based dialogue on population aging that will shape policies and programs. Presentations in the fields of biology, public health, medicine, informatics, macroeconomics, finance, urban planning, and engineering approached the challenges of aging from many different angles. The presenters reviewed the current state of knowledge in their respective fields, identifying areas of consensus and controversy and delineating the priority questions for further research and policy development.

Author : Robert L. Schalock,Kenneth D. Keith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : People with mental disabilities
ISBN : 0996506845

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Cross-cultural Quality of Life by Robert L. Schalock,Kenneth D. Keith Pdf

Studio della qualità della vita in diverse culture nel campo delle disabilità cognitive.

Author : David M. Romney,Roy I. Brown,Prem S. Fry
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401101714

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Improving the Quality of Life by David M. Romney,Roy I. Brown,Prem S. Fry Pdf

The book is unique in two distinct ways. First, it focuses on improving quality of life in contrast to other books that have tended to focus more on its conceptualization and assessment. Second, it deals with improving quality of life in a variety of disabled populations, not just one, and includes chapters on people with chronic mental or physical conditions and those without disabilities at all (i.e. so-called normal people). The book outlines some of the challenges and controversies in the quality-of-life domain and attempts to synthesize the key issue and to draw generalizable conclusions. The book is mainly for university students and faculty and practitioners from various disciplines working in the field. It will also interest those members of the general public who wish to improve their own quality of life or that of their relatives or friends.

Author : Michael Marmot
Publisher : Olschki
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8822262514

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Fair Society, Healthy Lives by Michael Marmot Pdf

Author : Chris Hackler
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791419991

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Health Care for an Aging Population by Chris Hackler Pdf

Pivoting on Daniel Callahan's proposal to withhold publicly funded life-prolonging medical care from the very old in his 1989 Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society, 14 essays consider the health-care crisis looming early in the next century as the baby boomers reach retirement age. They discuss the role of the aged in society, what the old and young deserve of each other, the source of medical cost increases, implications of rationing according to age, and proposals for a system that will address both immediate problems and long-term conditions. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
ISBN : PSU:000020390945

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Aging Research by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging Pdf

Author : Timothy J Owens
Publisher : Gulf Professional Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0762300337

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Self and Identity Through the Life Course in Cross-Cultural Perspective by Timothy J Owens Pdf

This volume represents a new name and a new focus for its predecessor, Current Perspectives on Aging and the Life Cycle (volumes 1-4). We begin our new series, now titled Advances in Life Course Research, with volume 5. Its statement of purpose is the publication of theoretical analyses, reviews, policy analyses and positions, and theory-based empirical papers on issues involving all aspects of the human life course. It adopts a broad conception of the life course, and invites and welcomes contributions from all disciplines and fields of study interested in understanding, describing, and predicting the antecedents of and consequences for the course that human lives take from birth to death, within and across time and cultures (construed in its broadest sense), regardless of methodology, theoretical orientation, or disciplinary affiliation.

Author : Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,Committee on Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral Research to Improve the Public's Health
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309071758

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Promoting Health by Institute of Medicine,Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,Committee on Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral Research to Improve the Public's Health Pdf

At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Americans enjoyed better overall health than at any other time in the nation's history. Rapid advancements in medical technologies, breakthroughs in understanding the genetic underpinnings of health and ill health, improvements in the effectiveness and variety of pharmaceuticals, and other developments in biomedical research have helped develop cures for many illnesses and improve the lives of those with chronic diseases. By itself, however, biomedical research cannot address the most significant challenges to improving public health. Approximately half of all causes of mortality in the United States are linked to social and behavioral factors such as smoking, diet, alcohol use, sedentary lifestyle, and accidents. Yet less than five percent of the money spent annually on U.S. health care is devoted to reducing the risks of these preventable conditions. Behavioral and social interventions offer great promise, but as yet their potential has been relatively poorly tapped. Promoting Health identifies those promising areas of social science and behavioral research that may address public health needs. It includes 12 papersâ€"commissioned from some of the nation's leading expertsâ€"that review these issues in detail, and serves to assess whether the knowledge base of social and behavioral interventions has been useful, or could be useful, in the development of broader public health interventions.

Author : Alain Fayolle
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1847205372

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Handbook of Research in Entrepreneurship Education: A general perspective by Alain Fayolle Pdf

This authoritative and comprehensive Handbook showcases the nature and benefits of a new wave in entrepreneurship education emerging as a result of revised academicprograms developed to reflect new forms of entrepreneurship. The new paradigm of entrepreneurship education is explored, whilst traditional schooling in the field becomes the subject of reflection and revision. Distinctive material on the specific content of entrepreneurship education is also provided.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PURD:32754076286354

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To Extend the Older Americans Volunteer Programs by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Human Resources Pdf

Author : Michael Friebe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031081910

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Novel Innovation Design for the Future of Health by Michael Friebe Pdf

This book highlights the reasons for an urgently needed revision of the current global healthcare setup, discusses the needed mindset for a future of health, and provides a comprehensive development toolset for disruption (and for the needed incremental innovations towards disruption). Today’s biomedical and health innovation related research in universities encourages activities that lead to incremental innovations with a relatively low risk of failure. The healthcare industry on the other hand provides tools and devices for established healthcare providers to improve the diagnosis and therapy/ treatment of the patients’ health problems. The patient is not in the center of healthcare provision however, and prevention and prediction are not core goals. The current health setup needs to be challenged and disrupted. Disruptions are coming from technologies or processes that lead to a significant (>10x) reduction in cost or price/ performance and that also come with new business models. The need for change, effects of exponential technologies, and the needed shift to prevention and to homecare for health democratization and patient empowerment will be discussed in detail in the first parts of the book. The subsequent sections address several innovation methods with a focus on a novel meta methodology named Purpose Launchpad Health. This is followed by a comprehensive discussion on health entrepreneurship activities and needs. The final section of the book addresses how to train students to become entrepreneurial health innovators, presenting successful curricula and examples of health incubation and accelerator setups. All of the innovation tools presented and used in this book are summarized in the final chapter to help the reader get started planning an entrepreneurial venture. Written by experts from academia and industry, the book covers important basics and best practices, as well as recent developments. Chapters are concise and enriched with key messages, learning objectives and real innovation examples to bridge theory and practice. This book aims to serve as a teaching base for health innovation design and to prepare for health-related entrepreneurial ventures. Readers with medical, biomedical, biotechnology, and health economics backgrounds - and anyone who wants to become a future oriented health innovator or who believes in disruptive approaches - will find this book a useful resource and teaching tool for developing validated products/ services and processes for the future of health.

Author : AHRQ Task Force on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UCBK:C069484810

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Improving the Health and Health Care of Older Americans by AHRQ Task Force on Aging Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 860 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000091037584

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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1994: Nondepartmental witnesses by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119594682

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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1994 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Pdf