The Second Fifty Years: Promoting Health and Preventing Disability

by Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention and Institute of Medicine

Taking its title from the second 50 years of the human life span of about 100 years, this book presents wide-ranging and practical recommendations for health care providers, policymakers, and other sectors of society. These recommendations range from setting new national policies to changing the way elderly patients are interviewed in the doctor's office and from what exercises older persons should do to how city planners should design our urban...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309046815
• ISBN13: 9780309046817
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"