[PDF] Aging In Arizona eBook

Author : Presley Reader
Publisher :
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 2017-12-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781945849442

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This book was inspired by all the wonderful aging experts who have appeared on "Aging in Arizona" (960 AM). When we were approaching our 200th episode, we realized many of the same themes were recurring - and so we decided to bring together the expertise under one roof, so to speak, in a book that addresses financial, social, medical and spiritual needs and challenges of getting older. Most the authors of the book have been on the radio show. You will see, as we did, the passion they have for the people they help and the industries they are helping to move forward. Our ultimate goal is to reduce the stress of caregiving and help you capitalize on opportunities to manage what could be the best years of your life!

Author : Nicholas Bishop
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 27,38 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Older people
ISBN :

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"[P]rovides a comprehensive view of the health status, morbidity, and mortality among Arizonans 65 years of age and older. Designed to be a resource for those ... developing and implementing health policy for an increasingly aged populace, this report draws from multiple resources on the health, illness, and mortality of Arizona's older adults. Population estimates and projections were used to examine Arizona's current population composition by age and race/ethnicity as well as to estimate how Arizona's population structure will change over the next 40 years.... [T]he health behaviors and chronic disease burden experienced by Arizona's seniors were examined using the 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).... 2012 Hospital Discharge Data (HDD) was used to summarize emergency room (ER) and inpatient discharges by first-listed diagnosis separated by gender.... [T]he leading causes of death for Arizonans age 65 and older were identified separately by gender in 2012, with recent trends (2002–2012) ... also being analyzed.... In Arizona, the total population is expected to increase about 80 percent from ... 2010 to ... 2050, while the number of Arizonans age 65 and older is expected to increase 174 percent.... As the proportion of Arizonans age 65 and over increases, so will the racial/ethnic diversity.... [T]he findings of this report suggest that ... primary prevention strategies focused on reducing socioeconomic health disparities and increasing the availability and success of physical, intellectual, and social activities will become increasingly important as means of reducing the population health burden of chronic diseases associated with aging. Further developing our capacity to provide health services to older adults also will increase in importance, but the ability to prevent the development of costly chronic diseases and morbidities associated with aging will be the most successful method of reducing the overall costs of maintaining a healthy aging population"--Executive summary.

Author : Carroll L. Estes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 15,69 MB
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429619588

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This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding, with links to concepts of identity, knowledge construction, social networks, social movements, and inequalities. With today’s intensifying concentration of wealth and corporatization, precarity is the fate for growing numbers of the world’s population. Intersectionality as an analytic concept offers a new appreciation of how social advantage and disadvantage accumulate, and how constructions of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender influence aging. The book’s entries offer a bibliographic compendium, crediting the salience of early pioneering theorists and locating these within the cutting-edge of research (social, behavioral, policy, and gene–environment sciences) that currently advances our understandings of human development, trauma, and resilience. Accompanying these foundations are theories of resistance for advancing human rights and the dignity of marginalized populations.