Self Care in Later Life
Research, Program, and Policy Issues
Marcia G. Ory, PhD, MPH
Gordon H. DeFriese,
This volume is uncontestably the most comprehensive and authoritative work on the subject of self-care available to date. It should set the stage for a new policy perspective on building a health care system that incorporates self-care at its core."--Lowell S. Levin, Yale School of Public Health
Practitioners and researchers who work with older adults are challenged to find ways to strengthen an elderly person's capacity to cope wiht age-related changes that threaten independence.
This volume assesses the efficacy of self-care in maintaining autonomy. It applies a broad definition of self-care that includes a range of behaviors undertaken by individuals, families, and communities to enhance health, prevent disease, limit illness, and restore health.
- Contributors
- The Patterns of Self-Care Among Older Adults in Western Industrialized Societies, Thomas R. Konrad
- Dynamics and Processes of Self-Care in Old Age, Eleanor Palo Stoller
- The Research Basis for the Design and Implementation of Self-Care Programs, Thomas Prohaska
- Evaluating Psychosocial Interventions for Promoting Self-Care Behaviors Among Older Adults, William Rakowski
- Enhancing Self-Care Research: Exploring the Theoretical Underpinnings of Self-Care, Elaine A. Leventhal, Howard Leventhal, and Chantal Robitaille
- The Role of Social Science Research in Understanding Technology Use Among Older Adults, Laura N. Gitlin
- Self-Care in Minority and Ethnic Populations: The Experience of Older Black Americans, Lucille Davis and May L. Wykle
- International Perspectives on Self-Care Research, Kathryn Dean
Foreword by Richard S. Schweiker
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Nature, Extent, and Modifiability of Self-Care Behaviors in Later Life, Marcia G. Ory, Gordon H. DeFriese, and Alfred P. Duncker
Afterword: Toward a Research Agenda for Addressing the Potential of Self-Care in Later Life, Gordon H. DeFriese, Marcia G. Ory, and Donald M. Vickery
Appendix: Self-Care in Later Life--An Annotated Bibliography of Research Findings and Policy Issues, Alison Woomert
Index
- Release Date: March 1, 1998
- Hardback
- 267 Pages
- Trim Size: 6.4in x 9.3in
- ISBN: 9780826111869
- eBook ISBN: 9780826196958
