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Over the next several decades as our elderly population increases, there will be an equally dramatic increase of older people with chronic health problems and disabilities needing long-term healthcare. At the same time, the costs of providing that healthcare will continue to rise. Soon these demographic and health-economic trends will clash in what could well prove to be the most serious societal problem in modern history: widespread shortages of increasingly costly healthcare for the growing elderly population. This book looks at ways in which the whole community can network and become involved in the health and well being of its older citizens, as well as offering healthcare institutions themselves the opportunity to reorient their approach toward providing whole-person care that is cost effective and satisfying for patients and health professionals alike. The research and combined wisdom of internationally renowned leaders in medicine, healthcare policy, religion, government, the media, hundreds of professional healthcare and religious workers as well as lay members from various religious communities are presented in this book. It examines one of the most serious issues in today

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Harold G. Koenig, MD, is board certified in general psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, and geriatric medicine. He is on the faculty at Duke as professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and associate professor of medicine. Dr. Koenig is Director of Duke s Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health and has published extensively in the fields of mental health, geriatrics, and religion, with over 350 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and close to 40 books in print or in preparation. He is also a registered nurse.Douglas M. Lawson, PhD, is a fund-raising consultant to such organizations as the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, Special Olympics, and hundreds of other nonprofit organizations. He is the author of Volunteering: 101 Ways You Can Improve the World and Your Life (1998) and Give to Live: How Giving Can Change Your Life (1999).Malcolm McConnell is the author or coauthor of twenty-five books, many on medical or scientific subjects.

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