The Structure of Healthy Life Determinants Lessons from the Japanese Aging Cohort Studies /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hoshi, Tanji (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Kodama, Sayuri (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: International Perspectives on Aging, 18
• Subjects: Aging.; Geriatrics.; Medical research.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.; Quality of Life Research.

This book is the first one to examine the cause and effect of elderly people's healthy life expectancy, providing models that are easy to understand. The novel point is the success achieved in constructing a single structural model of cause and effect of healthy life expectancy. In the final mo...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Population aging trend of the world
• 3. SES, physical health, and long-term care needs
• 4. SES, comorbidity, activity limitations, and healthy life expectancy
• 5. SES, mental health, and need for long-term care
• 6. SES, social interaction, and health status
• 7. SES, dietary and lifestyle habits, and three health-related dimensions
• 8. SES, dietary and lifestyle habits, three health-related dimensions, and healthy survival days
• 9. SES, dietary quality, emotional well-being, and a five-year subjective health in middle-age
• 10. Causal relationships among three health-related dimensions
• 11. SES, environmental condition, three health-related dimensions, and healthy life expectancy
• Afterword
• Index.