Healthwise for Life: A Self-Care Guide for People Age 50 and Better

by Molly Mettler, Donald W. Kemper, Katy E. Magee (Editor)

Book Description Now in its 7th edition, Healthwise for Life helps adults age 50 and older improve their self-care skills, lower their health care costs, and stay healthy as they age. Healthwise for Life topics can help people make quick decisions about when to call a doctor and what home treatments are best. This self-care guide provides decision-focused, action-oriented information on more than 200 common health topics important to older adults. Over 90 unique Go-to-Web search codes take readers to decision-focused, action-oriented topics and tools from the online Healthwise Knowledgebase. From the Publisher Since 1975, Healthwise has distributed more than 30 million self-care guides throughout the world. Healthwise is a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health decisions. Nearly 90 million times a year, people turn to Healthwise information to learn how to do more for themselves, ask for the care they need, and say no to the care they don t need.

408 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1998