Healthy Ageing in the Clinical Setting: Current Concepts and Future Prospects
It is necessary to define ‘health’ in order to know how to deal with disease. This is particularly important when we deal with real patients in clinical settings, and even more so when the patient is elderly. Here, an attempt is made to define health in a
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Jonathan Sholl Suresh I. S. Rattan Editors
Explaining Health Across the Sciences
Healthy Ageing and Longevity Volume 12
Series Editor Suresh I. S. Rattan, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Rapidly changing demographics worldwide towards increased proportion of the elderly in the population and increased life-expectancy have brought the issues, such as “why we grow old”, “how we grow old”, “how long can we live”, “how to maintain health”, “how to prevent and treat diseases in old age”, “what are the future perspectives for healthy ageing and longevity” and so on, in the centre stage of scientific, social, political, and economic arena. Although the descriptive aspects of ageing are now well established at the level of species, populations, individuals, and within an individual at the tissue, cell and molecular levels, the implications of such detailed understanding with respect to the aim of achieving healthy ageing and longevity are ever-changing and challenging issues. This continuing success of gerontology, and especially of biogerontology, is attracting the attention of both the well established academicians and the younger generation of students and researchers in biology, medicine, bioinformatics, bioeconomy, sports science, and nutritional sciences, along with sociologists, psychologists, politicians, public health experts, and health-care industry including cosmeceutical-, food-, and lifestyle-industry. Books in this series will cover the topics related to the issues of healthy ageing and longevity. This series will provide not only the exhaustive reviews of the established body of knowledge, but also will give a critical evaluation of the ongoing research and development with respect to theoretical and evidence-based practical and ethical aspects of interventions towards maintaining, recovering and enhancing health and longevity.
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/13277
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Editors Jonathan Sholl Philosophy and History of Ideas Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark
Suresh I. S. Rattan Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics Aarhus University Aarhus, Denmark
ISSN 2199-9007 ISSN 2199-9015 (electronic) Healthy Ageing and Longevity ISBN 978-3-030-52662-7 ISBN 978-3-030-52663-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52663-4 © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not im
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