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UNINA9910454151003321 |
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Effective health behavior in older adults [[electronic resource] /] / K. Warner Schaie, Howard Leventhal, Sherry L. Willis, editors |
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New York, : Springer Pub. Co., c2002 |
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1-281-81143-2 |
9786611811433 |
0-8261-9743-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Collana |
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Societal impact on aging series ; ; 2002 |
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LeventhalHoward, PhD. |
SchaieK. Warner <1928-> (Klaus Warner) |
WillisSherry L. <1947-> |
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Aging |
Geriatrics |
Health behavior - Age factors |
Older people - Health and hygiene |
Electronic books. |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Contents; Contributors; Preface; 1 Biosocial Considerations in Chronic Illness Perceptions and Decisions; 2 Linear and Dynamical Thinking about Psychosocial Factors and Cardiovascular Risk; 3 A Cognitive-Affective Analysis of Cancer Behavior in the Elderly: Are You as Healthy as You Feel?; 4 Psychosocial Factors in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease; 5 Ethnicity and Psychosocial Factors in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention; 6 Getting Help to Those Most Likely to Benefit: Patient Characteristics and Treatment Success |
7 Exercise Interventions and Aging: Psychological and Physical Health Benefits in Older Adults8 How Provider Payment Policies Affect the Health-Care-Seeking Behavior of the Elderly; 9 The Potential for Health Care Organizations to Promote Maintenance and Change in Health Behaviors Among the Elderly; Afterword: Health Behavior and the Elderly: How Do We Understand Its Determinants and Their Goals?; |
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Author Index; Subject Index |
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In what ways do health behaviors and societal mechanisms help or discourage individuals in assuming responsibility for their health? Highly-esteemed and diverse contributors examine the health behaviors of older adults and the ways in which these behaviors are affected by societal trends. The volume begins with a discussion of the personal attributes affecting health behaviors and responsible health care choices in older adults. Additional topics explored include: Psychosocial factors in the prevention of cardiovascular disease; behavioral interventions such as the role of exercise in preventi |
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UNINA9910783638703321 |
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Autore |
Hill Jonathan <1958, > |
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Actions of architecture : architects and creative users / / Jonathan Hill |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
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1-134-43704-8 |
0-203-41067-X |
1-134-43705-6 |
1-280-05607-X |
0-203-32721-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (213 p.) |
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Architects - Public relations |
Architects and patrons |
Communication in architectural design |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-217) and index. |
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The reader/viewer/user's guide -- The role of the user -- The passive user -- From the reactive user to the creative user -- The creative user -- Montage after shock -- The montage of fragments -- The montage of gaps -- The institute of illegal architects -- Weather architecture (Berlin1929-1930, Barcelona 1986-, Barcelona 1999-) -- White on |
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white -- Electromagnetic weather -- The subject is matter -- Turning a wall in to a window. |
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Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this book considers the relations between the architect and the user, which it compares to the relations between the artist and viewer and the author and reader. The book's thesis is informed by the text 'The Death of the Author', in which Roland Barthes argues for a writer aware of the creativity of the reader. Actions of Architecture begins with a critique of strategies that define the user as passive and predictable, such as contemplation and functionalism. Subsequently it considers how an awareness of |
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