Ageing, Healthy, and in Control: An Alternative Approach to Maintaining the Health of Older People |
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... completely can accept and adapt to their shrinking world by finding satisfaction in contemplative , or low - activity lives . GENDER DIFFERENCES There are also gender - based assumptions concerning the needs of men and women , many ...
... completely can accept and adapt to their shrinking world by finding satisfaction in contemplative , or low - activity lives . GENDER DIFFERENCES There are also gender - based assumptions concerning the needs of men and women , many ...
Page 139
... completely harmless , nothing more than a placebo . Perhaps the explanation is that remedies work in alliance with the body's own homeostatic system , rather than trying to over - ride them . After all , inoculation works on the same ...
... completely harmless , nothing more than a placebo . Perhaps the explanation is that remedies work in alliance with the body's own homeostatic system , rather than trying to over - ride them . After all , inoculation works on the same ...
Page 148
... completely curing , long - standing pain which has withstood the treatment of other medical intervention . For older people , osteopathy is certainly preferable to increasing doses of pain killers . Pain should be considered a warning ...
... completely curing , long - standing pain which has withstood the treatment of other medical intervention . For older people , osteopathy is certainly preferable to increasing doses of pain killers . Pain should be considered a warning ...
Contents
reasserting personal control | 64 |
combating loneliness | 82 |
Diet and nutrition | 98 |
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