The Essential Guide to Aging in the Twenty-first Century: Mind, Body, and Behavior,3rd Edition

For more than a decade, The Graying of America has helped thousands of senior citizens find their way through the thickets and thorns of growing old. Now greatly revised and expanded to include information gleaned from studies of the past five years, this third edition has been retitled to stress its ongoing purpose: conveying a wealth of commonsense information for general readers in nontechnical language. Its 588 entries (including 172 new and 150 substantially revised) cover a broad spectrum of topics from adjusting to retirement to grandparenting, sleep disorders to Alzheimer s disease. The Essential Guide to Aging in the Twenty-First Century can help seniors come to grips with their own aging process and help younger adults understand what is happening to older family members.

     For more than a decade, The Graying of America has helped thousands of middle-aged and senior citizens find their way through the thickets and thorns of growing old. Now greatly revised and expanded to include information gleaned from studies of the past five years, this third edition has been retitled to stress its ongoing purpose: conveying a wealth of commonsense information for general readers in nontechnical language.

            The book is a storehouse of concise, useful information on the effects of aging on health, the mind, and behavior. Its 588 entries (including 172 new and 150 substantially revised) cover a broad spectrum of topics-from adjusting to retirement to grandparenting, sleep disorders to Alzheimer’s disease. All are directed to the average reader; all stress successful aging and how to accomplish it.

New entries cover such topics as the incidence and causes of frailty, the cognitive benefits of diversified activity, and findings of the Women’s Health Initiative. There is new information on matters like the effects of untreated hearing impairment on spouses and the impact of insufficient exposure to sunlight on sleep, plus new insight into what to look for in searching for a quality nursing home for a loved one.

Also included are results of recent studies on interventions that help to reduce age-related declines in mental and physical health, among them revelations that reports on age-related declines in memory have been skewed by testing errors. And with memory a concern for seniors fearful of declining mental agility, the book tells how to bypass memory problems-such as how to remember where you parked your car-and how physical exercise and challenging mental games can help reduce the risk of dementia. Other 'how to avoid' entries offer ways to protect against eye fatigue in computer use, hip fractures when falling, and back injuries while lifting heavy objects.

No other book is so specifically geared to the challenges of how to reduce or even eliminate many of the problems associated with growing old. Aging in the Twenty-First Century can help seniors come to grips with their own aging process-and help younger adults understand what is happening to older family members.

For more than a decade, The Graying of America has helped thousands of middle-aged and senior citizens find their way through the thickets and thorns of growing old. Now greatly revised and expanded to include information gleaned from studies of the past five years, this third edition has been retitled to stress its ongoing conveying a wealth of commonsense information for general readers in nontechnical language. The book is a storehouse of concise, useful information on the effects of aging on health, the mind, and behavior. Its 588 entries (including 172 new and 150 substantially revised) cover a broad spectrum of topicsfrom adjusting to retirement to grandparenting, sleep disorders to Alzheimers disease. All are directed to the average reader; all stress successful aging and how to accomplish it. New entries cover such topics as the incidence and causes of frailty, the cognitive benefits of diversified activity, and findings of the Womens Health Initiative. There is new information on matters like the effects of untreated hearing impairment on spouses and the impact of insufficient exposure to sunlight on sleep, plus new insight into what to look for in searching for a quality nursing home for a loved one. Also included are results of recent studies on interventions that help to reduce age-related declines in mental and physical health, among them revelations that reports on age-related declines in memory have been skewed by testing errors. And with memory a concern for seniors fearful of declining mental agility, the book tells how to bypass memory problemssuch as how to remember where you parked your carand how physical exercise and challenging mental games can help reduce the risk of dementia. Other how to avoid entries offer ways to protect against eye fatigue in computer use, hip fractures when falling, and back injuries while lifting heavy objects. No other book is so specifically geared to the challenges of how to reduce or even eliminate many of the problems associated with growing old. Aging in the Twenty-First Century can help seniors come to grips with their own aging processand help younger adults understand what is happening to older family members. Essential The Guide to Aging in the Twenty-First Century......Page 6 Contents......Page 8 Preface......Page 10 Introduction......Page 14 A......Page 20 B......Page 74 C......Page 92 D......Page 139 E......Page 170 F......Page 193 G......Page 215 H......Page 225 I......Page 242 J......Page 254 K......Page 256 L......Page 257 M......Page 277 N......Page 306 O......Page 318 P......Page 325 Q......Page 363 R......Page 364 S......Page 389 T......Page 444 U......Page 461 V......Page 466 W......Page 481 Index of Entries and Cross-References......Page 502 Index of Entries by Broad Topics......Page 526 About the Authors......Page 536 'This third edition of The Graying of America has been retitled, revised, and expanded. In concise, nontechnical language, it offers middle-aged and senior readers useful information on the effects of aging on health, the mind, and behavior'--Provided by publisher.