A Guide to Aging and Well-Being for Healthcare Professionals: Psychological Perspectives

Norman M. Brier (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA)

A Guide to Aging and Well-Being for Healthcare Professionals: Psychological Perspectives
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
28 January 2020
Pages
138
ISBN
9780367430627

A Guide to Aging and Well-Being for Healthcare Professionals: Psychological Perspectives

Norman M. Brier (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA)

This book provides practical evidence-based strategies that will help clinicians across a broad range of disciplines to address and discuss the main issues an aging person is likely to face and overcome if they are to maintain a sense of well-being as they age.

Based on an extensive body of research, the relevant up-to-date knowledge for each topic is concisely presented, followed by practical, concrete, evidence-based suggestions as to how a healthcare provider might acknowledge and create a partnership with their clients to help the person increase their sense of well-being. Each chapter contains a list of key terms, a summary, and case examples that illustrate in realistic and humanistic ways how a person might present the concern being addressed and intervene.

The specific challenges associated with aging that are addressed include: anxiety attached to an increasing awareness of mortality; retirement; the increasing number of losses of significant others; regrets; memory loss; the arrival of old-old age and feelings of loneliness, mattering insufficiently, and a loss of purpose; and finally, dealing with imminent death.

This book is suitable for all health professionals who provide clinical services or advice to older adults including physicians (i.e. particularly in the specialties of internal medicine, family medicine, geriatrics, and geriatric psychiatry), nurses, social workers, psychologists, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and audiologists.

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