Morbidity Prevention in Aging. The Role of Salutogenesis Amidst Crises

Table of Contents

1. Morbidity prevention in aging: an introduction
Section I: Age-friendly Environments and Healthy Aging
2. Preventive morbidity in aging: policy guide for the Integrated Model of Positive Aging Amidst Climate Threats
3. Frailty and active ageing in place: a review of the supportive role of social networks
4. From Disruption to Appraisal in Transitional Built Environments: Perceived Safety Accessibility Responsiveness Framework for Psychosocial Adaptation
5. Neighborhood social networks for active aging: a typology and theoretical positioning
Section II: Reorienting Health Services for Healthy Aging
6. Disease prevention during climate change: a salutogenic perspective on pro-health behavior
7. Preventive healthcare during climate change: impacts and the way forward
8. Social work’s role in lifespan health promotion during the climate crisis: a call to action
9. Impacts of wildfires on older adults’ health: implications for morbidity prevention during climate change
10. Preventing falls among older adults during crises
Section III: Role of Health-Promoting Activities in Adaptive Aging
11. Assessment of health promotion services available to older adults and the interventions of social workers in sustaining them in Nigeria
12. Unexpected joy and inspired fellowship following war: Shared experience through intergenerational musical communitas
13. Maladaptive aging through the lens of the climate-driven suicidal continuum and strategies for risk reduction
14. Climate change and aging: disease prevention, impacts, and policy
15. Volunteering during crises: sustaining opportunities and impact on healthy aging
Section IV: Healthy Aging in Vulnerable Groups and Contexts
16. Growing up in poverty and with multimorbidity in America, Britain, China, Europe, and Indonesia
17. Impacts of wildfires on older adults’ volunteering engagement: considerations for future wildfire resiliency planning
18. Salutogenic approaches to ageing in low-resource settings: insights from Ghana as a case study
19. A scoping review of mental health and health care interventions for people living with HIV in Asia: implications for healthy ageing during crises

Authors

Nestor Asiamah Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research, School of Health and Social Care, University or Essex, UK.

Nestor Asiamah, PhD, FHEA, is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) and Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research in the School of Health and Social Care at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. He also lectures at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences and Berlin School of Business and Innovation in Germany. As the Executive Director and Founding Fellow at the Africa Centre for Epidemiology, he leads several international research groups. Nestor reviews for top journals like The Lancet and serves as an academic editor for journals such as Social Sciences & Humanities Open, BMC Public Health, and PLoS ONE. He is a Medical Research Council grant reviewer and has consulted for the NHS in the UK. Nestor convenes the International Sustainable Ageing Research Group (ISARG), a global network dedicated to healthy aging research and advocacy, and mentors doctoral and postdoctoral researchers worldwide.

Hafiz T.A. Khan Professor, Public Health and Statistics, University of West London, USA.

Hafiz T.A. Khan, PhD MSc, FHEA, FRSPH, CStat is a Professor of Public Health and Statistics at the University of West London (UWL). Before joining UWL, he was a Reader in Statistics at Birmingham City University, UK. With over 30 years of experience, he transitioned from statistician to specializing in public health. He teaches modules on Public Health, Demography and Aging Society, statistics, and quantitative methods, and provides statistical consultancy services within the university. His research focuses on healthy aging, co-morbidity in later life, and long-term care for the elderly. He supervises PhD students in public health, demography, and gerontology. Professor Khan has co-authored two books, "Research Methods for Business and Social Science" (Sage, 2007 and 2014). He is a Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, and a member of the academic advisory panel of the UK Commonwealth Scholarship Commission.

Whitney Nesser Professor and Gerontology Program Director, Department of Applied Clinical and Educational Sciences, Indiana State University, USA.

Whitney Nesser, PhD, MBA, MCHES is a Professor and Gerontology Program Director in the Department of Applied Clinical and Educational Sciences at Indiana State University. Her primary focus is on research and teaching about quality of life, aging, and intergenerationology. Her PhD is in Health Education and Promotion from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Evelyn Alvarez Environmental Health Scientist and Professor, California State University, Los Angeles, USA. Dr. Evelyn Alvarez, PhD, MPH, is an environmental health professor and geospatial scientist at California State University, Los Angeles specializing in web-based and smartphone environmental community science applications and wearable technology to promote environmental justice and build healthy communities. Her research also investigates the nexus between sustainable aging and green spaces, and resilience-building strategies in response to pandemics and climate change. She earned her PhD in environmental health science from UCLA, focusing on hospital environments, copper antimicrobial surfaces, and hospital-acquired infections, and her MPH in environmental health sciences from Columbia University. Dr. Alvarez's research interests include underrepresented narratives in climate change and sustainable living. Her mentees received the 2020 APHA Student Champions for Climate Justice award for an environmental justice project on campus. She has contributed significantly to advancing environmental health and justice through her innovative research and mentorship.