Geriatrics, Lifestyle Medicine and Healthy Aging

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A Practical Guide

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Susan M. Friedman, USA) Friedman, Susan M. (University of Rochester, New York

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Geriatrics, Lifestyle Medicine and Healthy Aging: A Practical Guide is a book for those interested in promoting healthy aging through lifestyle approaches. The book is divided into three sections covering various aspects of lifestyle medicine for older individuals including general concepts of lifestyle medicine practices; lifestyle “pillars” as applied to older adults; and a broad range of target conditions of importance to older adults, and how a lifestyle medicine approach may impact them. Readers gain an understanding of how lifestyle medicine and geriatrics can work together to provide a holistic approach that fosters healthy aging throughout life.FeaturesResearch-supported analysis of the relevance of lifestyle medicine in geriatric populationsEvidence-based discussion of conditions that impact quality of life in older adults, including sarcopenia, incontinence, bone health, polypharmacy and falls, and how lifestyle medicine can prevent and treat such conditionsEdited by a leading expert in the fields of healthy aging and lifestyle medicine in older adultsAs part of the Lifestyle Medicine Series edited by Dr. James M. Rippe, this book is useful to geriatric medicine clinicians who would like to increase the tools in their practice of caring for older adults; lifestyle medicine clinicians who want to understand how to effectively use lifestyle pillars to care for older adults; and anyone who is interested in their own, or a loved one’s, healthy aging.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-09-29
Mått156 x 234 x 27 mm
Vikt940 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLifestyle Medicine
Antal sidor408
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032638539

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Susan Friedman, MD, MPH, has been a practicing geriatrician for over 30 years, and has spent more than a decade focusing on fostering healthy aging, incorporating geriatrics and lifestyle medicine into her clinical work, teaching, program development, research, and advocacy. She obtained her undergraduate, MD and MPH degrees from Northwestern University, and completed a General Internal Medicine residency and Geriatrics fellowship in the Johns Hopkins University system, based at Hopkins Bayview Hospital. She was on faculty at Johns Hopkins for 5 years before moving to the University of Rochester in 2000.Dr. Friedman is Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, in the Division of Geriatrics. She is the medical director of the university’s lifestyle medicine program based at Highland Hospital. She has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, which have been cited more than 3000 times, and was the lead author of the American Geriatrics Society’s White Paper on Healthy Aging.

Section 1: General Principles1.The Rationale for Lifestyle Medicine in Geriatrics2. Promoting Healthy Aging: A Lifecycle Approach3.The Reality of Aging4.Confronting Ageism with Language and Lifestyle Medicine5. Climate Change, Lifestyle Medicine and Older Adults6.Lifestyle Medicine in a Geriatrics Primary Care PracticeSection 2: Lifestyle Medicine pillars as applied to older adults7. Why Exercise? Sedentarism, Physical Activity, and Exercise Among Older Adults8. Physical Activity and Exercise Recommendations Among Older Adults9. Nutrition Care for the Older Adult10.Malnutrition in Older Adults – a Lifestyle Medicine Approach11.Sleep and Older Adults12.Social Connection – An Essential Lifestyle Pillar for Older Adults13. Stress and Its Impact on Older Adults14.Toxins and Older AdultsSection 3: Target issues15.Sarcopenia16. Unlocking the Mind: Navigating the Landscape of Dementia and Elevating Brain Health in Later Life17.Depression18. Urinary Incontinence in Older Adults: A Lifestyle Medicine Approach19.Resilience20. Palliative Care in Older Adults: A Lifestyle Medicine Approach21. Polypharmacy and Deprescribing22.Caregiver Health23.Reducing Fall Risk with Lifestyle Modifications24. Obesity in Older Adults- Lifestyle Medicine Perspective25. Osteoporosis and Bone Health26. A Lifestyle Medicine Approach to Constipation