Oral Health in Healthy Aging

The Survey on Knowledge of Shiraz District Health Volunteers Over Healthy Life Style in Aging

Objectives: The education promotion of elderly health is an Important preference of health that should be planned for it. Several problems of elderly are supposed to be due to life style so the community education of healthy life style should be considered. The appropriate approach to achieve those objectives is to use of female health volunteers for transformation of this education to families...

Retarding aging - Healthy aging

dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and DHEA sulfate (DHEASS) (adrenopause). Hence, there have been several reports of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to delay or prevent some of the consequences of aging. However, HRT is not without sideeffects. We should use “aging” synonymously with “senescence” rather than merely to describe the actual age of the person.2 The desire for ageless bodies covers th...

World Health Day 1994: oral health for a healthy life.

Feasibility of setting up a health promotion and disease prevention center with a healthy aging approach

Introduction: In spite of the global trend towards increased screening efforts, there remain instances where uncertainty surrounds the cost-effectiveness of this approach. In such cases, a comprehensive assessment that considers cost-effectiveness, feasibility, and factors related to epidemiology, socio-culture, and community becomes indispensable. This assessment offers crucial insights to gui...

Ethics in an aging society: challenges for oral health care.

Health and aging are deeply meaningful and complex realities. The demographic reality of the Canadian population in the 21st century requires an in-depth understanding of the health care goals of older people, an analysis of the attitudes toward older people that affect societal decision making and the educational and policy changes required to effect positive change. Viewing these issues throu...