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Record Nr.

UNINA9910619470503321

Autore

Byeon Haewon

Titolo

Prevention and Management of Frailty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

ISBN

3-0365-5372-X

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (284 p.)

Soggetti

Public health & preventive medicine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

It is important to prevent and manage the frailty of the elderly because their muscle strength and physical activity decrease in old age, making them prone to falling, depression, and social isolation. In the end, they need to be admitted to a hospital or a nursing home. When successful aging fails and motor ability declines due to illness, malnutrition, or reduced activity, frailty eventually occurs. Once frailty occurs, people with frailty do not have the power to exercise or the power to move. The functions of the heart and muscles are deteriorated more rapidly when they are not used. Consequently, frailty goes through a vicious cycle. As one’s physical fitness is deteriorated, the person has less power to exercise, poorer cognitive functions, and inferior nutrition intake. Consequently, the whole body of the person deteriorates. Therefore, in addition to observational studies to identify risk factors for preventing aging, various intervention studies have been conducted to develop exercise programs and apply them to communities, hospitals, and nursing homes for helping the elderly maintain healthy lives.  Until now, most aging studies have focused on physical frailty. However, social frailty and cognitive frailty affect senile health negatively just as much as physical frailty. Nevertheless, little is known about social frailty and cognitive frailty. This special issue includes original experimental studies, reviews, systematic reviews, and meta-analysis studies on the prevention of senescence (physical senescence, cognitive senescence, social senescence), high-risk group detection,



differentiation, and intervention.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809843303321

Autore

Cox Robert W. <1926->

Titolo

Universal foreigner : the individual and the world / / Robert W. Cox, York University, Canada

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Jersey : , : World Scientific, , [2013]

�2013

ISBN

981-4452-71-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 379 pages)

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

320.092

Soggetti

Political scientists - Canada

International organization

International cooperation

World politics - 1945-1989

World politics - 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; About the Author; Chapter 1 The Individual and the World; St. Augustine; Giambattista Vico; Teilhard de Chardin; Chapter 2 The Canadian Context; Chapter 3 Geneva; Chapter 4 Morse; Part I: The Middle East; Part II: Asia; The ILO and America's contradictions; Chapter 5 1968; The Soviet bloc; Latin America; The Soviet bloc again; Reflections; Chapter 6 Ambivalence; Tolstoy and history; ILO or Academia; The strange politics of international organization; Chapter 7 Transition; The US/ILO Crisis: Part one; Asia: The Cultural Revolution and the war in Vietnam; The US/ILO Crisis: Part two

Chapter 8 Thought and Reality Social forces in the making of history; Methods of analysis; Chapter 9 The 1970's; Corporatism in America; The multinational corporation; Global governance; The new international economic order; ILO again; Quebec nationalism; Chapter 10 The Emergence of China; Historical materialism; The Soviet Union; China in 1984; China and the world; Chapter 11 Civilizations and World



Order; Consciousness and civilization; Harold Innis on civilizations; What are civilizations?; Comparison of civilizations: Synchronic and diachronic dimensions; Civilizations and global governance

Chapter 12 Synthesis Invitations to Lecture: Clarifying a Perspective on the World; Configurations of Power; A Plural World or Catastrophic Confrontation?; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The book shows one individual's (the author) experience of the world, through contacts with government officials and scholars in the Middle East and Asia, Europe and Latin America during the post-Second World War years up to the later 1960's; and then that individual's reflections and study during the succeeding decades, up to and including the first decade of the 21st century, concerning the future of the world and the critical choices that confront the world both in inter-state relations and in maintaining the security of the biosphere.