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9780078050596

Annual Editions: Aging 10/11

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    9780078050596

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    0078050596

  • Edition: 23rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2010-03-03
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
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Summary

Annual Editions is a series of over 65 volumes, each designed to provide convenient, inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers, and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. The Annual Editions volumes have a number of common organizational features designed to make them particularly useful in the classroom: a general introduction; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; and a brief overview for each section. Each volume also offers an online Instructor's Resource Guide with testing materials. Using Annual Editions in the Classroom is the general instructor's guide for our popular Annual Editions series and is available in print (0073301906) or online. Visit www.mhcls.com for more details..

Table of Contents

Preface
Correlation Guide
Topic Guide
Internet References
The Phenomenon of Aging
Unit Overview
Elderly Americans
You Can Stop "Normal" Aging
Living Longer: Diet and Exercise
Secrets to Longevity
Will You Live to Be 100?
Faulty Fountains of Youth
The Quality of Later Life
Unit Overview
Failure to Thrive: Interventions to Improve Quality of Life in the Older Adult
Overweight and Mortality among Baby Boomers-Now We’re Getting Personal
Lifetime Achievements, Harvard Health Letter, July 2006
We Can Control How We Age
Societal Attitudes toward Old Age
Unit Overview
Society Fears the Aging Process
A Healthy Mind, a Longer Life
Research: Oldest Americans Happiest
The Under-Reported Impact of Age Discrimination and Its Threat to Business Vitality
Problems and Potentials of Aging
Unit Overview
Alzheimer’s-The Case for Prevention
Brain Cancer: Could Adult Stem Cells Be the Cause-and the Cure?
Trust and Betrayal in the Golden Years
The Extent and Frequency of Abuse in the Lives of Older Women and Their Relationship with Health Outcomes
Retirement: American Dream or Dilemma?
Unit Overview
Retire Right, Consumer Reports, February 2008
Money for Life
Keep Pace with Older Workers
Color Me Confident
Work/Retirement Choices and Lifestyle Patterns of Older Americans
The Experience of Dying
Unit Overview
Development of Hospice and Palliative Care in the United States
The Grieving Process
End-of-Life Preferences: A Theory-Driven Inventory
Mind Frames towards Dying and Factors Motivating Their Adoption by Terminally Ill Elders
Living Environment in Later Life
Unit Overview
Oh, Lord, Don’t Put Me in a Nursing Home
Where to Live as We Age
Finding a Good Home
Declaration of Independents: Home Is Where You Want to Live Forever. Here’s How
Social Policies, Programs, and Services for Older Americans
Unit Overview
Dignified Retirement: Lessons from Abroad
Social Security’s 70th Anniversary: Surviving 20 Years of Reform
The Corporate Beneficiaries of the Medicare Drug Benefit
Coverage for All
Riding into the Sunset: The Geezer Threat
The New Face of Health Care
As Good as It Gets
Population Aging, Entitlement Growth, and the Economy, Prepared
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