Product Description: Named a 2013 Doody's Core Title! The new edition has the balance of breadth and depth and should appeal to practitioners, academics and students alike. The second edition of Public Health and Aging is a must-read book in the developing field of public health and aging...read more

Product Description: Designated a Doody's Core Title! Public health and aging is a developing field, standing between clinical geriatrics and the demography and epidemiology of aging. It has heretofore lacked a unified treatment or single framework. this text provides such a framework and offers a first synthesis of a burgeoning literature in geriatrics, gerontology, occupational therapy, epidemiology, demography, neuropsychology, rehabilitation medicine, social work, and public policy...read more

Product Description: Columbia Univ., New York, NY. Bulk of material was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Mental Health and Aging (Volume 5, Number 1, 1999). Provides overview of conceptual and practical issues in measurement of quality of life in persons with Alzheimer's Disease...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)