The 50+ Wellness Program - Softcover

McIlwain, Harris H.; Steinmeyer, Lori F.; Bruce, Debra Fulghum; Fulghum, R. E.; Bruce, Robert G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471506869 ISBN 13: 9780471506867

Publisher: Wiley, 1990

Synopsis

Growing older can be a rewarding and fulfilling experience--if you're prepared to meet your changing physical, emotional and financial needs. A complete, no-nonsense guide to health care and emotional well-being for mature adults, it will help you keep control of your life, suggesting a step-by-step program to help you stay very active and very healthy for many years to come. Shows you how to identify and eliminate risks and explains along the way how to plan a sound, nutritious diet (even for special needs), and how to handle emotional ups and downs that often accompany aging. It even provides tables and charts on everything from cholesterol-level recommendations to disability benefits--with questionnaires that help you hand-tailor the wellness program to meet your specific needs. Features a special section by a medical economics consultant on the financial aspects of health care for the elderly as well as checklists for determining medical risks, keeping track of expenses and more.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Individuals who control their own lifestyles and understand the physical changes that occur with aging will enjoy a healthier, more fulfilling maturity, say the authors of this book. This guide emphasizes the elimination of risk factors along with careful planning of a healthy lifestyle. Using check lists, tables, and diagrams, the book is devoted to health-related subjects such as nutrition and disease, food and drug interactions, the routine medical exam, and common physical problems, with a final chapter on financial planning. Discussions are brief, occasionally repetitious, and often bordering on the superficial. A better choice for wellness in the later years is the Columbia University School of Public Health Complete Guide to Health and Well-Being After 50 ( LJ 4/15/88).
- Karen McNally Bensing, The Benjamin Rose Inst. Lib., Cleveland
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0471506869
• ISBN 13: 9780471506867
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316