Diet, Exercise Government Prescription for Health Care for Elderly. Matt Stearns.
by Stearns, Matt; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 46Family. Publisher: Kansas City Star, 2003ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Aged -- Health and hygiene | Diet therapy | Exercise -- Health aspects | Medical policy | Medicine -- PreventiveDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Medicare is financially strapped. Coverage for ever-more-expensive prescription drugs is somewhere down the road--maybe. And the number of elderly Americans keeps increasing, putting more pressure on the health-care system. While Congress deals with the myriad health-care issues facing the elderly, policy-makers and advocates for the aged are studying ways to contain costs and help older Americans live healthier lives. Their efforts center on that age-old clean-living mantra: Diet and exercise." (KANSAS CITY STAR) This article stresses how a healthier lifestyle for older Americans could "help save hundreds of millions of dollars a year" in managing chronic diseases.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Diet, Exercise Government Prescription for Health Care for Elderly, March 31, 2003; pp. n.p..
"Medicare is financially strapped. Coverage for ever-more-expensive prescription drugs is somewhere down the road--maybe. And the number of elderly Americans keeps increasing, putting more pressure on the health-care system. While Congress deals with the myriad health-care issues facing the elderly, policy-makers and advocates for the aged are studying ways to contain costs and help older Americans live healthier lives. Their efforts center on that age-old clean-living mantra: Diet and exercise." (KANSAS CITY STAR) This article stresses how a healthier lifestyle for older Americans could "help save hundreds of millions of dollars a year" in managing chronic diseases.
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