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Global Health and Global Aging
Mary Robinson (Edited by), M Robinson (Author), William Novelli (Edited by), Clarence E. Pearson (Edited by), Laurie Norris (Edited by), Robert N. Butler (Foreword by)
9781118424070, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 3 August 2012
400 pages
1 x 1 x 1 cm, 0.454 kg
The book covers the fundamentals of global aging and health and provides real-world models from countries and regions that offer the best practices in current approaches. Global Health and Global Aging presents information about leadership and governance challenges as well as insights about aging in different cultures and countries in all regions of the world.
About the AARP Foundation viii Foreword x Preface xi The Editors xv Contributors xvi PART ONE: THE WORLD AND ITS AGING POPULATION 1. World Policies on Aging and the United Nations 3 2. Population Aging: A Global Overview 15 3. The World Health Organization and Global Aging 31 4. Leadership and Governance Challenges for Global Health and Aging 47 5. Perception of Aging in Different Cultures 58 PART TWO: COUNTRIES WITH HIGH RATES OF LONGEVITY 6. Healthy Aging in Denmark? 71 7. Challenges of Longevity in France: The International Longevity Centre-France Perspective 85 8. Healthy Aging in Finland 96 9. Healthy Aging in Germany 106 10. Healthy Aging from Seventy to Over One Hundred in Germany: Lessons from the Berlin Aging Study 118 11. Challenges of Productive Aging in Japan 128 12. Healthy Aging in the Netherlands 140 13. Aging in Spain: Working Toward Creating New Rights in the Welfare State 149 14. Health and Aging in Sweden 157 15. Aging in the United Kingdom 168 16. Healthy Aging in the United States 177 PART THREE: COUNTRIES FACING RAPID POPULATION AGING IN THE NEXT TWENTY TO THIRTY YEARS 17. Health and Aging in Africa 187 18. Aging of Populations: Is China’s Pattern Unique? 197 19. Health and Aging in India 208 20. Health and Aging in the Eastern Mediterranean Region 215 21. Health and Aging in Russia 226 22. Health and Aging in Latin America and the Caribbean 238 PART FOUR: LEADERS IN RESEARCH AND INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS 23. The Biology of Aging: Current Research and Expected Future Gains 249 24. Exceptional Longevity 257 25. Cities, Sociodiversity, and Strategy 275 26. Creating a Healthy Environment for Aging Populations 281 27. How Government, Business, and Social Sector Partnerships Can Finance Programs for the Aging 292 28. Policies and Practices Affecting Health and Longevity of People with Disabilities: Lessons from the United Kingdom 300 29. Keeping People Active: Continuing Education Programs that Work 313 30. Longevity's Impact on Retirement Security 323 31. Improving Health Care in America: Lessons Learned from the Global Village 337 PART FIVE: EPILOGUE: THE ROAD AHEAD 32. Epilogue: The Road Ahead 351
Robert N. Butler, M.D.
Mary Robinson
Alexandre Sidorenko
Mary Beth Weinberger
Alex Kalache
Derek Yach
Frank E. Eyetsemitan
Bjarne Hastrup
Francoise Forette and Marie-Anne Brieu
Pekka Puska
Ulla Schmidt
Jacqui Smith and Paul B. Baltes
Shigeo Morioka
C.I.J.M. Ross-van Dorp
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Barbro Westerholm
Sally Greengross
Jeanette C. Takamura
Nana Araba Apt
Lincoln Chen and Lingling Zhang
Sharad D. Gokhale
Mohamed H. El-Banouby
Vladimir Kh. Khavinson and Olga N. Mikhailova
Enrique Vega
George M. Martin and Joshua Lederberg
Thomas Perls and Dellara F. Terry
Jaime Lerner
Gloria M. Gutman
A. James Forbes, Jr.
Hector Medora and Angela Hassiotis
Julia Preece and Brian Findsen
C. Robert Henrikson
William D. Novelli
Erik Olsen
Subject Areas: Medicine: general issues [MB]
