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Aging : demographics, health, and health services
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Aging : demographics, health, and health services

Author: Elizabeth Vierck; Kris Hodges
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Statistics.
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth Vierck; Kris Hodges
ISBN: 1573565474 9781573565479
OCLC Number: 49977093
Notes: "An Oryx book."
Description: xviii, 323 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents: Aging in the Twentieth Century -- The meaning of aging -- Size and growth of the older population -- Life expectancy: three decades in 100 years -- Health status, use of health services, and attitudes toward health care providers -- Health risks and practices -- Nutrition -- Chronic conditions and common health problems -- Mental health and illness -- Prescription and over-the-counter drugs -- Long-term care: an overview -- Long-term care: home health care -- Long-term care: nursing home care -- Care at the end of life: hospice care -- Causes, places, and timing of death -- Paying for health care: health care spending, medicare, medicaid, and supplemental insurance.
Responsibility: Elizabeth Vierck and Kris Hodges.
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