Exercise for Aging Adults
Exercise for Aging Adults

Author: Gail M. Sullivan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-08-10

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 3319160958

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This book translates the new findings in exercise research for the elderly for busy practitioners, trainees, students and administrators. This book provides practical strategies that can be implemented immediately in the common settings in which practitioners care for adults. The format includes key points and case examples which showcase the strong evidence supporting exercise by older adults as a key tool to enhance health, prevent serious outcomes, such as hospitalization and functional loss, and as part of the treatment plan for diseases that are common in older adults. Written by experts in the field of exercise in older persons, this book is a guide to maintaining quality of life and functional independence from frail to healthy aging adults. Strategies and exercises are discussed for specific care settings and illustrated via links to video examples, to ensure readers can immediately apply described techniques. Exercise for Aging Adults: A Guide for Practitioners is a useful tool for physicians, residents in training, medical students, physical therapists, gerontology advance practice nurse practitioners, assisted living facility administrators, directors of recreation, and long-term care directors.

Exercise for Older Adults
Exercise for Older Adults

Author: Cedric X. Bryant

Publisher: Healthy Learning

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13:

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Exercise for Older Adults: ACE's Guide for Fitness Professionals offers the essential information fitness professionals need to provide older adults with safe and effective fitness programming, from the physiology of aging to the techniques and tools for motivating and communicating with older adults. Personal trainers, activity directors, health educators and fitness facility managers are among those who will benefit from this valuable resource.

Exercise and Physical Activity for Older Adults
Exercise and Physical Activity for Older Adults

Author: Danielle R. Bouchard

Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 149257290X

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"This book discusses the physical benefits of exercise and physical activity when aging without major diseases, making this book unique in the sense of its primary prevention focus"--

ACSM's Exercise for Older Adults
ACSM's Exercise for Older Adults

Author: Wojtek J. Chodzko-Zajko

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1609136470

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"ACSM's Exercise for Older Adults is a new book designed to help health and fitness professionals guide their older clients to appropriate exercise programs"--Provided by publisher.

Functional Fitness for Older Adults
Functional Fitness for Older Adults

Author: Patricia A. Brill

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780736046565

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Older adults are liable to resist exercise, yet remaining active is crucial in enabling them to retain or regain a reasonable quality of life. This text is an illustrated guide for activity professionals working with mature adults over the age of 65, especially those who have reduced quality of life.

Exercise
Exercise

Author: National Institute on Aging

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13:

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One of the healthiest things you can do for yourself. Exercise!

Physical Activity Instruction of Older Adults, 2E
Physical Activity Instruction of Older Adults, 2E

Author: Rose, Debra J.

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1450431062

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Physical Activity Instruction of Older Adults, Second Edition, is the most comprehensive text available for current and future fitness professionals who want to design and implement effective, safe, and fun physical activity programs for older adults with diverse functional capabilities.

Senior Fitness
Senior Fitness

Author: Ruth E. Heidrich

Publisher: Lantern Books

Published: 2005-03

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1590562070

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The senior years don't have to be filled with aches and pains. At age seventy, Ruth Heidrich has the bone mass density of a woman in her early thirties and a resting heart rate of forty-four. Since being diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of forty-seven, she has won more than nine hundred athletic trophies and medals and has been cancer-free for more than twenty years. In Senior Fitness, the "other" Dr. Ruth shows how to maintain and even increase physical and sexual fitness at any age--and dramatically reduce the risk of prostate cancer, varicose veins, osteoporosis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, Alzheimer's, and a host of other ailments and diseases. Full of detailed medical information, this inspiring handbook is the ideal resource for all those seeking to make life after fifty full of fun and dynamism.

Bending the Aging Curve
Bending the Aging Curve

Author: Joseph F. Signorile

Publisher: Human Kinetics

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 0736074457

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Table of Contents: The aging curves Testing Training principles Body composition Flexibility Bone, falls, and fractures Muscular strength, power, and endurance training Cardiovascular training Periodized training.

Pathy's Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine
Pathy's Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine

Author: Alan J. Sinclair

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2012-03-13

Total Pages: 3453

ISBN-13: 1119954142

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This new edition of the comprehensive and renowned textbook Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine offers a fully revised and updated review of geriatric medicine. It covers the full spectrum of the subject, features 41 new chapters, and provides up-to-date, evidence-based, and practical information about the varied medical problems of ageing citizens. The three editors, from UK, USA and France, have ensured that updated chapters provide a global perspective of geriatric medicine, as well as reflect the changes in treatment options and medical conditions which have emerged since publication of the 4th edition in 2006. The book includes expanded sections on acute stroke, dementia, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory diseases, and features a new section on end-of-life care. In the tradition of previous editions, this all-encompassing text continues to be a must-have text for all clinicians who deal with older people, particularly geriatric medical specialists, gerontologists, researchers, and general practitioners. This title is also available as a mobile App from MedHand Mobile Libraries. Buy it now from Google Play or the MedHand Store. Praise for the 4th edition: "...an excellent reference for learners at all clinical and preclinical levels and a useful contribution to the geriatric medical literature." —Journal of the American Medical Association, November 2006 5th edition selected for 2012 Edition of Doody's Core TitlesTM