The Role of Public Health in Healthy Aging

Individuals in the United States paradoxically long for and dread old age. The alternative to growing old is an outcome few of us would prefer. But aging seems inevitably associated with decline. Independent choices, a hallmark of adulthood, can be lost between one day and the next with a heart attack, a stroke, or a fractured hip. This issue of the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s journal, “Preventing Chronic Disease,” explores the role of public health in healthy aging.

Source: Preventing Chronic Disease (Jul 2005)

Full story: http://www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2005/jul/toc.htm