Health Promotion and Aging: Practical Applications for Health Professionals

This acclaimed text promotes healthy aging by demonstrating how health practitioners, program developers, and policymakers can prevent or manage disease and make large-scale improvements toward health and wellness in the older adult population. The eighth edition encompasses major new research that substantially updates previous recommendations. It provides important new content on Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and the ACA; clinical preventive services; global aging; sexual health; saving for retirement; long-term care alternatives; and much more.

Accessible and comprehensive, this text is supported by abundant tables, figures, and illustrations. It describes practical strategies--including model community and government initiatives--that have proven markedly successful, as well as health-promotion tools, resource lists, assessment tools, and checklists. New trends such as green burials, LGBT aging, yoga, and dancing exercise regimens are also covered. Additionally, each chapter features key terms, learning objectives, summary, and thought-provoking questions. An improved instructor package includes upgraded PowerPoints, a new test bank, sample syllabi, chapter summaries, discussion questions, chapter exams, and more. Purchase includes access to the ebook for use on most mobile devices or computers.

New to the Eighth Edition:

• Updated research findings, demographics, figures, and statistics regarding health/social/medicaltrends/exercise/weight management
• New content on global aging, sexual health, and substance abuse
• New information on medical screening recommendations, cancer treatments, complementary and alternative medicine, and more
• New findings regarding mental health and older adults
• Significant updates to Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and the ACA
• Expanded section on global health and older adults
• Upgraded instructor support package

Key Features:

• Provides an interdisciplinary view of how practitioners, program developers, and policymakers can improve health and wellness in older adults
• Describes successful community and government model programs and initiatives
• Delivers health-promoting tools, resource lists, checklists, and assessment tools
• Offers key terms, learning objectives, critical-thinking questions and reflection boxes
• Includes a robust instructor package

David Haber, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Gerontology Department at Western Oregon University, Monmouth, Oregon. Prior to his current affiliation he worked at several institutes of higher education.

For a decade he was the John and Janice Fisher distinguished professor of wellness and gerontology at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. For the decade prior to that, Dr. Haber was a professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Before that he served as the director of the Center for Healthy Aging, at Creighton University's multidisciplinary shopping mall-based geriatric center in Omaha, Nebraska.

His early academic and research career included positions at the University of the District of Columbia; the University of South Florida, Tampa; and the University of Southern California, where he also received his PhD in sociology from the Andrus Gerontology Center.

Dr. Haber is a fellow in the Gerontological Society of America, and he is recognized for two Best Practice Awards from the National Council on Aging, the Distinguished Teacher Award from the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education, and the Molly Mettler Award for Leadership in Health Promotion from the National Council on Aging.

The third edition of this book, Health Promotion and Aging, was selected for the 2004 Book of the Year Award by theAmerican Journal of Nursing in two categories: Gerontologic Nursing, and Community and Public Health. Dr. Haber also authored Health Care for an Aging Society.

Dr. Haber has authored 87 academic publications and has been project director or principal investigator of 20 research or demonstration grants related to health and aging. Typically, these applied projects involved gerontology and health professional students leading community health promotion ventures with older adults. Dr. Haber's current interest in life is cat therapy with frail elders.