Aging Well: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health

In this definitive, prescriptive guide to all aspects of aging, the authors-both top experts on aging at Harvard Medical School-offer a complete and highly accessible reference focused on the physical and emotional issues that affect seniors and their loved ones. Here is invaluable advice on a range of topics, from lifestyle choices to retirement and insurance options to coping with loss and other life concerns. Aging Well addresses such increasingly important subjects as:

* Safety risks associated with growing older

* Alternative medicine and the right questions to ask

* Assisting aging parents and other challenges of the "sandwich generation"

* Mail-order products for seniors

* Healthy-aging research and potential therapies

* How to optimize and strengthen your health if your body is affected by illness or disease

Aging Well contains what you need to know to help you and your loved ones live fuller, healthier lives, whether you're 40, 50, or older-because aging well is living well.

JEANNE WEI, M.D., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Physician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is an experienced gerontologic researcher, teacher of geriatricians and gerontologists, geriatric clinician, and academician. SUE LEVKOFF, Sc.D., is Associate Professor of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Associate Professor in Health and Social Behavior, Harvard School of Public Health. For ten years, she has been Director of the Harvard Upper New England Geriatric Education Center. She is the former President of the National Association of Geriatric Education Centers.