[Book Description]

『Functional Performance in Older Adults, 2nd Edition』 serves as the ideal resource for rehabilitation professionals who are working or preparing to work with older adults. This book describes the normal aging process and also shows how health and social factors can impede an aging individual's abilities.

Review these key features:
Emphasizes intervention stragegies that will maintain the older person's ability to perform the activities that give his or her life meaning
Addresses self-care, work, and leisure from the perspective of aging-topics rarely addressed in gernotology textbooks
Coverage is from a multidisciplinary perspective and is equally balanced between theoretical and applied information
Chapters new to the second edition include theories of aging, sexuality, driving, wellness, and community-based care


[Contents]

PARTⅠ. NORMAL AGING

SECTION 1. INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW
1. Growing Old in the United States
2. Biological Theories of Aging: Implications for Functional Performance
3. The Psychosocial Meaning of Activity

SECTION 2. THE AGING PROCESS
4. Mobility
5. Cardiopulmonary Development
6. Sensory and Sensory Integrative Development
7. Cognitive Development

SECTION 3. ACTIVITIES OF OLDER ADULTS
8. Self-Care
9. Work and Retirement
10. Leisure
11. Sexuality in Late Adulthood
12. Assessment of Functional Performance

PARTⅡ. INTERRUPTIONS IN FUNCTIONAL PERFORMANCE

SECTION 4. FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO DYSFUNCTION IN OLDER ADULTS
13. Falls
14. Dementia
15. Depression

SECTION 5. INTERVENTION STRATEGIES
16. Wellness
17. Community-Based Services
18. Home Health Care
19. Rehabilitation
20. Activities as Agents for Intervention and Rehabilitation in Long-Term Care

SECTION 6. SPECIAL TOPICS
21. Technology
22. Driving and Older Adults
23. Families and Professionals: Therapeutic Considerations
24. The End of Life

Glossary
Index