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The Second Fifty Years: Promoting Health and Preventing Disability (1992)
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Front Matter
i-viii
Contents
ix-xii
Summary
1-10
Introduction
11-21
Disability Classification
22-32
High Blood Pressure
33-52
Medications
53-64
Risk Factors for Infection in the Elderly
65-75
Osteoporosis
76-100
Preventing Disability Related to Sensory Loss in the Older Adult
101-118
Oral Health Problems in the 'Second Fifty'
119-135
Screening for Cancer
136-156
Nutrition
157-192
Cigarette Smoking
193-201
Depression
202-223
Physical Inactivity
224-242
Social Isolation Among Older Individuals: The Relationship to Mortality and Morbidity
243-262
Falls in Older Persons: Risk Factors and Prevention
263-290
Appendix A: Can Philosophy Cure What Ails the Medical Model?
291-310
Appendix B: Looking for Order: Health Promotion, Disablity Classification System of the World Health Organization
311-320
Index
321-332

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