Self Care in Later Life

Research, Program, and Policy Issues
Herausgeber: Ory, Marcia G; Defriese, Gordon H

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume is uncontestably the most comprehensive and authoritative work on the subject of self-care available to date. It should set the stage for a new policy perspective on building a health care system that incorporates self-care at its core."--Lowell S. Levin, Yale School of Public Health Practitioners and researchers who work with older adults are challenged to find ways to strengthen an elderly person's capacity to cope wiht age-related changes that threaten independence. This volume assesses the efficacy of self-care in maintaining autonomy. It applies a broad definition of self-care that includes a range of behaviors undertaken by individuals, families, and communities to enhance health, prevent disease, limit illness, and restore health.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 267
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 610g
• ISBN-13: 9780826111869
• ISBN-10: 0826111866
• Artikelnr.: 24544425

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors
Foreword by Richard S. Schweiker
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Nature, Extent, and Modifiability of Self-Care Behaviors
in Later Life, Marcia G. Ory, Gordon H. DeFriese, and Alfred P. Duncker
1. The Patterns of Self-Care Among Older Adults in Western Industrialized
Societies, Thomas R. Konrad
2. Dynamics and Processes of Self-Care in Old Age, Eleanor Palo Stoller
3. The Research Basis for the Design and Implementation of Self-Care Programs,
Thomas Prohaska
4. Evaluating Psychosocial Interventions for Promoting Self-Care Behaviors
Among Older Adults, William Rakowski
5. Enhancing Self-Care Research: Exploring the Theoretical Underpinnings of
Self-Care, Elaine A. Leventhal, Howard Leventhal, and Chantal Robitaille
6. The Role of Social Science Research in Understanding Technology Use Among
Older Adults, Laura N. Gitlin
7. Self-Care in Minority and Ethnic Populations: The Experience of Older Black
Americans, Lucille Davis and May L. Wykle
8. International Perspectives on Self-Care Research, Kathryn Dean
Afterword: Toward a Research Agenda for Addressing the Potential of
Self-Care in Later Life, Gordon H. DeFriese, Marcia G. Ory, and Donald M.
Vickery
Appendix: Self-Care in Later Life--An Annotated Bibliography of Research
Findings and Policy Issues, Alison Woomert
Index