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"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...
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Presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts on health and aging. Captures the research in the field in terms of new findings as well as conceptual developments guiding research, practice, and policy, while also covering the biological, psychological, social, and economic aspects of health and aging and impacts within the health-care system. Focuses heavily on geriatrics with respect to geriatric syndromes and common diseases of aging....