Best Practices for Promoting Healthy Aging
This article outlines key well-known population health practices at the community level that benefit all members of the community, especially older adults. (Source: Clinics in Geriatric Medicine)
Source: Clinics in Geriatric Medicine - August 28, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Kathryn M. Daniel Source Type: research
Healthy Aging: What Do We Mean, and How Do We Accomplish It?
“It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” This quote, or a variant of it, has been attributed to Adlai Stevenson, Abraham Lincoln, Dr Edward Stieglitz, and others. It is a goal that is central to Geriatric Medicine: the idea of maintaining vitality throughout the life course. But healthy aging is a complex construct, which differs between individuals and between populations and cultures, and also changes over time within an individual. It incorporates concepts that are more traditional to Medicine, such as preventing and treating illness; ideas that are important in Geriatrics, like...
Source: Clinics in Geriatric Medicine - August 28, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Susan M. Friedman Tags: Preface Source Type: research
Getting from Here to There
Successful health behavior change relies on the autonomy of the individual who is driven toward personally meaningful, positive goals. The medical practitioner and health care team can use several techniques to facilitate such change effectively, including motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral restructuring, appreciative inquiry, and positive psychology techniques. Older adults can be supported to make change, and may have greater capacity to maintain those changes due to increased levels of conscientiousness. Positive psychology approaches may be effective in older adults, due to evidence that, as individuals ag...
Source: Clinics in Geriatric Medicine - August 24, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Liana Lianov Source Type: research
How Do Geriatric Principles Inform Healthy Aging?
Healthy aging long has been held as a core belief and priority of geriatrics, yet clinical, scholarly, and advocacy efforts have not kept pace with attention to multimorbidity and end-of-life care. With an aging US population and trends toward higher rates of lifestyle diseases, there is imperative for geriatricians to engage in efforts to promote healthy aging. Lifestyle medicine offers an evidence-based approach to healthy aging at any point in the life span. This emerging branch of medical practice has synergistic principles and frameworks with the field of geriatrics, which should further empower geriatricians to engag...
Source: Clinics in Geriatric Medicine - August 24, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Jennifer D. Muniak, Paul Mulhausen Source Type: research
Preserving Engagement, Nurturing Resilience
Engagement and resilience constitute 2 psychological aspects of healthy aging that are commonly identified by many individuals as more important than health or longevity. Both of them play a crucial role in healthy aging. Social engagement enhances psychological well-being and improves physical and cognitive health outcomes. In times of adversity, resilience buffers the negative effects of stress and promotes return to baseline health and function. Strong resilience helps individuals become more engaged and active engagement promotes resilience. We discuss the role, health outcomes, and practical implications of these 2 ma...
Source: Clinics in Geriatric Medicine - August 19, 2020 Category: Geriatrics Authors: Halina Kusz, Ali Ahmad Source Type: research
