Table of Contents

Series editor's preface
Foreword

Part One: Promoting the Health of Older People

Part Two: Principles to Practice

Practical health promotion
what have we learned so far?
Inequalities in health-related behaviour
Inter-generational health promotion and active citizenship
Lifeskills
from adaption to transcendence
The ageless self
exploring holism

Part Three: Practical Issues in Health Promotion with Older People

Health and productive ageing, including work, volunteering and purposive ageing
Health promotion and sexuality in later life
Developing an innovative fall-prevention strategy in a primary care setting
Understanding and working with grief and loss
Health promoting residential settings
Health and the older traveller
issues for health promotion
Index.

About the Author

Anthony Chiva is Head of Education and Training at the Pre-Retirement Association of Great Britain and Nothern Ireland and Staff Tutor in the School of Educational Studies, University of Surrey.

David Stears is Director of the Centre for Health Education and Research and Principal Lecturer in Health Promotion at Canterbury Christ Church University College, Kent.