Addressing the caregiving crisis.
Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: This issue of Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD) focuses on a set of concerns that is likely to challenge the public’s creative spirit and resourcefulness for the next 30 years. Public health is the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental health. What we are beginning to see is that success in any one of these areas raises new challenges and presents new problems for us to solve in the other areas. For example, advances in science, better nutrition, and improvements in health care have allowed people around the world to live to unprecedented ages. But this blessing of long life presents us with a new set of formidable challenges: soaring rates of dementia and untreated mental health problems among the elderly, a growing burden of chronic illnesses that affects our communities, disturbing problems of elder
Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
Author: Rosalynn Carter
Language: English
Topic: Nursing care and research
Subfield: Research and Theory
Field: Nursing
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1762501185