The Challenge of a Lifetime: Aging Well--'Healthy Aging' Movement.... Marsha King.
by King, Marsha; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 41Family. Publisher: The Seattle Times, 2003ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Aging | Health behavior -- Age factors | Health promotion | Healthy Aging movement | Medicine -- Preventive | Older people -- Health and hygiene | Quality of lifeDDC classification: 050 Summary: "At the start of the last century, the average American lived to age 47, typically succumbing to some infectious disease. Today [2003]--thanks to better sanitation and nutrition, antibiotics, vaccines and a decline in smoking--average life expectancy is at an all-time high of 77.2 years. Despite this good news, huge challenges remain. Too many people still get sicker than necessary as they age, and too many die early from chronic diseases and injuries that are largely preventable." (THE SEATTLE TIMES) This article examines the "healthy aging" movement that promotes prevention and is "driven by the conviction that both personal resolve and community support are crucial to changing behavior."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Challenge of a Lifetime: Aging Well--'Healthy Aging' Movement..., Nov. 9, 2003; pp. n.p..
"At the start of the last century, the average American lived to age 47, typically succumbing to some infectious disease. Today [2003]--thanks to better sanitation and nutrition, antibiotics, vaccines and a decline in smoking--average life expectancy is at an all-time high of 77.2 years. Despite this good news, huge challenges remain. Too many people still get sicker than necessary as they age, and too many die early from chronic diseases and injuries that are largely preventable." (THE SEATTLE TIMES) This article examines the "healthy aging" movement that promotes prevention and is "driven by the conviction that both personal resolve and community support are crucial to changing behavior."
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