Basic Prevention: A Guide to Healthy Aging

Aging is not a disease; it's a normal part of life. BASIC PREVENTION is your guide to aging successfully. It will help you increase the time in your older years when you are independent and enjoying your life. It may decrease the time, if any, in your older years when you must depend on others to help you through the day. Each section of BASIC PREVENTION concludes with "What You Can Do." Find out what you can do to keep your mind sharp, to keep your bones strong, to avoid falls, to understand what cholesterol is, to understand what medicines you should-and should not-take, to understand what your blood pressure tells you, and to learn many other things that will help you age successfully. The second part of BASIC PREVENTION is titled COMMON PROBLEMS. Here you will learn what you need to know about back pain, constipation, dementia, and other health problems that are common among older people. If you are in your 30's, 40's, 50's, or 60's, BASIC PREVENTION can help your older years be healthy ones. If you are in your 70's or 80's, BASIC PREVENTION can make your present years more enjoyable. You have only one body, one life. Let BASIC PREVENTION show you how to take charge now and increase your chances of enjoying your older years..

Francis Salerno, MD, FACP, Associate Chief of Geriatrics at Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network in Allentown, PA developed BASIC PREVENTION: A GUIDE TO AGING SUCCESSFULLY. Dr. Salerno developed Lehigh Valley Hospital's geriatric medicine program, which U.S. News and World Report ranked in 1996, 1997, 2005, and 2007 as one of the best 50 hospitals in the United States for geriatric care. An associate professor of medicine at the Milton S. Hershey Medical School, Dr. Salerno served on the Task Force on Aging of the American College of Physicians. In 1993, the American Geriatric Society named him Clinician of the year. In 1999 he received the Louis Braille Award for his accomplishments and leadership in the field of geriatrics. Henry Acres helped Dr. Salerno develop BASIC PREVENTION: A GUIDE TO AGING SUCCESSFULLY. Formerly a professor of English at Hofstra University and president of the Great Lakes Colleges Association, Acres also served as executive director of shared programs at Cedar Crest and Muhlenberg Colleges in Allentown, PA and vice president of Cedar Crest. He established the 700-member Institute for Learning in Retirement at Cedar Crest College and is on the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley's Lehigh Valley Alliance on Aging steering committee.