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

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.