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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790684503321

Titolo

Health, wellbeing, competence and aging / / editors, Ping-Chung Leung, Jean Woo, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Walter Kofler, Medical University of Innsbruck and president of  International Academy of Science H&E, Austria

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

�2013

ISBN

981-4425-67-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 224 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits

Collana

Annals of traditional Chinese medicine ; ; volume 6

Disciplina

613.2

Soggetti

Medicine, Chinese

Aging

Mental health

Quality of life

Health promotion

Longevity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Preface to Series; Preface to Volume 6; Chapter 1 Chinese Medicine has a Lot to Offer Ping-Chung Leung; 1.1 Food as Medicine; 1.2 Health Claims and Efforts to Regulate Claims; 1.2.1 European Union; 1.2.2 United States; 1.2.3 China; 1.3 How Should Health Claims be Justified?; 1.4 Self-Help Exercise to Maintain Health; 1.5 Discussion; References; Chapter 2 Extended View of a Bio-Psycho-Socio-Eco-Cultural Model and the Self-Understanding of Western Medicine and New Public Health Walter Kofler; 2.1 History

2.1.1 The Christian churches were responsible for ideational aspects - scientists (only) for material aspects2.1.2 Limitations of scientific explanations based on historic definitions and ontologies; 2.2 The Given Situation; 2.2.1 A medicine for bodies without soul and a medicine for souls without bodies; 2.2.2 (New) Public Health (PH); 2.2.3 The debate about reproducible but unexplained phenomena; 2.3 Some Remarks on the Philosophy of Einstein; 2.4 Application of the Proposal



of Einstein on the Extended View; 2.4.1 Compatibility of different monistic ontologies

2.4.2 Compatibility of the levels of argumentation2.4.3 Compatibility of different meanings of the term evolution; 2.4.4 Open aspects; 2.4.5 Further information; 2.5 Remarks on the Chinese Medical Model; References; Chapter 3 The Hong Kong Cadenza Philosophy Ruby Yu and Jean Woo; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The Principles; 3.3 Project Vision; 3.4 Four Major Components of the CADENZA Project; 3.4.1 Public education; 3.4.1.1 CADENZA 18-district program; 3.4.1.2 CADENZA TV series; 3.4.1.3 CADENZA press conference; 3.4.1.4 CADENZA Symposium; 3.4.1.5 Other activities; 3.4.2 Training

3.4.3 Community projects3.4.3.1 Jockey club CADENZA hub; 3.4.3.2 Chronic disease self-management program (CDSMP); 3.4.3.3 Elder-friendly employment practice; 3.4.3.4 Health-social partnership transitional care model for post-discharged elderly; 3.4.3.5 Transitional care for stroke patients; 3.4.3.6 Elder at PEACE; 3.4.2 Leadership training; 3.5 Achievements and Impacts; 3.5.1 Public education; 3.5.2 Training; 3.5.3 Community projects; 3.5.4 Leadership training; 3.6 Future Plans; 3.7 Conclusion; References; Chapter 4 Longevity, Life Satisfaction, Money and Aging David Schnaiter

4.1 The Demographic Shift and the Search for its Reasons4.2 Necessary Expansions; 4.3 Money and Life Satisfaction; 4.4 Other Determinants of Life Satisfaction; 4.5 Subjective Health and Aging; 4.6 The Satisfaction Paradox of the Old; 4.7 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5 Understanding Between Generations: A Practicable Way to Help Create a Society Fit for All Ages Christa Erhart, Susanne Schinagl and Peter Erhart; 5.1 Short Description of the Workshop with Children and Operating Instruction; 5.1.1 Activity room 1: Classroom; 5.1.2 Activity room 2: Outdoor activities

5.1.3 Activity room 3: Daily living

Sommario/riassunto

The fear of death may translate into the desire for longevity. However, longevity is a true blessing only if it is coupled with good health. Healthiness, in today's expectation, is not simply a disease free state. Rather, it is very much a state of wellbeing and competence, both physically and socially. While Oriental medicine emphasizes on the promotion of physiological balance and internal balance as an integral requirement for longevity, other cultures also have various sophisticated concepts and orientations. This book successfully collates all the different views and approaches from Austr