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| Aging: Geroscience as the New Public Health Frontier, 2nd Edition |
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Doody's Core Title (2025 Edition)
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(Health Sciences - Public Health)
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ISBN: 978-1-62182-431-2,
246 pages,
Hard Cover
ISBN-10: 1-62182-431-4 |
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| Copyright: |
2024 |
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2nd |
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| Editor: |
Kirkland, James L.; Olshansky, S. Jay; Martin, George M. |
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Specialties:
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Geriatrics
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, Community Health
, Geriatrics |
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| Publisher: |
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press |
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| Series Title: |
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine |
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| List Price: |
$79.00 |
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At A Glance
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Aging represents a growing challenge for modern human populations, but in many ways our longer lives also represent an opportunity. People are living longer, but diseases associated with aging place an enormous burden on health systems, caregivers, and wider society. It is critical to elucidate the fundamental biology involved so that we can develop treatments for aging itself in addition to the fatal and disabling diseases and disorders associated with it. We must also understand the socioeconomic effects of life span and health span extension and adapt institutions accordingly. Written and edited by experts in the field, this new volume from Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine examines recent progress in our understanding of the biology of aging, strategies that may extend health span, and the societal implications. The contributors examine the underlying molecular mechanisms that lead to aging and consider the process from an evolutionary perspective. They also explore how life span may be extended, resistance to aging-associated conditions such as Alzheimer?s disease may be enhanced, and how society would benefit from increased health span. In addition, the authors discuss funding mechanisms for aging research and the way in which the field should develop as a discipline. This volume is thus an important reference for scientists and clinicians involved in geroscience and geriatric medicine, as well as those interested in the broader policy picture.
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Reviewer:
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Margaret Griffin,
BA,MPH,MD
(Retired)
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Are the author's objectives met? |
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Rate the worthiness of those objectives. |
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Is this written at an appropriate level? |
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Is there significant duplication? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) |
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Are there significant omissions? (1=significant, 5=insignificant) |
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Rate the authority of the authors. |
5 |
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Are there sufficient illustrations? |
5 |
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Rate the pedagogic value of the illustrations. |
3 |
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Rate the print quality of the illustrations. |
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Are there sufficient references? |
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Rate the currency of the references. |
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Rate the pertinence of the references. |
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Rate the helpfulness of the index. |
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If important in this specialty, rate the physical appearance of the book |
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Is this a worthwhile contribution to the field? |
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If this is a 2nd or later edition, is this new edition needed? |
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Reviewer:
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Margaret Griffin,
BA,MPH,MD
(Retired)
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Description
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| This second edition book summarizes current scientific data proven relative to the current understanding of the aging process. It documents the expansion of the average human life span in the 21st century. It is a comprehensive guide to new scientific, medical, and public health information necessary to address the aging phenomena of Western societies all around the world. |
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Purpose
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| This book attempts to justify a new scientific field of study called geroscience. It claims that if geroscience programs are funded and expanded, it will lead to future ways of managing chronic illnesses and improving the quality of life of aging populations. The book hopes that geroscience will both change and improve health science systems' management of chronic illnesses; redefine the science of aging. |
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Audience
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| This book is written for scientists, medical professionals, and public health policy makers working with aging Western populations throughout the world. It offers a framework to intervene and comprehensively offer older individuals' better access to appropriate health care, while also showing that health care costs are becoming inaccessible to many older individuals. The leading authors have spent their entire scientific careers studying the field of aging. They have contributed an enormous amount of scientific information to expanding the current understanding of the aging process. |
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Features
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| This book aptly covers the science of aging and numerous theories of the aging process are comprehensively explained. It not only offers ways of trying to improve medical care for the elderly, but also looks at government and public health policies that will aid societies coping with the escalating cost of health care for older adults. Chapters in this book are dedicated to the evolution of the concept of geroscience, the health and economics of geroscience interventions, influence of aging on wealth management, and funding channels for geroscience. These chapters offer helpful information relevant to these topics. At least half of the book highlights multiple aging theories that are current at this time. Attempts are made on an international scale to try to project the economic impact of healthy longevity. Comments are also introduced to review the influence of aging science on global wealth. Funding channels for financing the new field of geroscience are discussed. Graphs and tables are very well illustrated and understandable. The concept of geroscience is the most comprehensible and appropriate for 21st century issues related to aging and chronic diseases. |
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Assessment
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| I strongly support this new concept of geroscience. As a retired geriatrician, who spent over 35 years in the field of internal medicine, I can truly relate to the need to better understand the aging process. Because of public health improvements in the 19th and 20th century, individuals are living on average 20 years longer into what is now called "old age". With this extended life span, society is facing substantial increase in health care costs treating disease processes that accompany the aging process. All medical professionals are well aware of the chronic disease burden older individuals face by living many years older than previously projected life expectancies. Any advancement in improving the burden of chronic diseases in old age will make a tremendous difference on quality of life, financial burdens, and overall society's ability to understand the current life extensions in old age. |
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