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Health Promotion for Older Adults: What Is the Potential? 11th Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy

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  • Linda P. Fried

    (Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine and Public Health; Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health)

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As a greater number of people reach old age, medicine is challenged to develop new approaches to this population. Health promotion, not just treatment of disease but improving the quality of life for older persons, must play a role. What happens to individuals in terms of health status as they get older, and what are the implications for health care needs? Where should we focus to get the biggest benefits in terms of health promotion? Overall, we have learned a tremendous amount over the last 25 years about the components of health as people get older, and what modifies their health. We know, for example, that the health status of older adults is a composite of the chronic diseases that they may have, of how many chronic diseases are present, and of underlying physiological changes of aging, such as a decline in muscle strength, that appear to be an intrinsic part of the aging process. Disability can result from chronic disease. In addition, people are more susceptible to acute illnesses and injuries as they get older.

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  • Linda P. Fried, 2000. "Health Promotion for Older Adults: What Is the Potential? 11th Annual Herbert Lourie Memorial Lecture on Health Policy," Center for Policy Research Policy Briefs 17, Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
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    JEL classification:

    • I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
    • J14 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of the Elderly; Economics of the Handicapped; Non-Labor Market Discrimination

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