Students and practitioners will find Public Health for an Aging Society an invaluable resource both in the workplace and the classroom.

The role of public health in the planning, coordination, and delivery of health promotion and disease prevention services to older people living outside of inst

As the first of the nation's 78 million baby boomers begin reaching age 65 in 2011, they will face a health care workforce that is too small and woefully unprep

It is not news that each of us grows old. What is relatively new, however, is that the average age of the American population is increasing. More and better inf

Family caregiving affects millions of Americans every day, in all walks of life. At least 17.7 million individuals in the United States are caregivers of an old