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This book offers a data-driven analysis of aging, exploring demographic trends and their impact on decision-making in healthcare. It explores the clinical, economic and environmental factors influencing multimorbidity, frailty, and disability to stratify disease progression and prognosis for a more personalized approach to care. The book also examines behavioral and psychological determinants, outlining trajectories for active and healthy aging. It addresses the challenges and opportunities of the Silver Economy, focusing on work, participation, retirement, and welfare strategies that adapt to an aging population. Finally, the book advocates for mainstreaming aging into health policy, proposing innovative institutional mechanisms for more sustainable, future-oriented healthcare
systems.Featuring case studies, practical strategies and insights, and policy frameworks to improve quality of life and demands of tomorrow s aging population, this book is essential reading for professional and practitioners as well as researchers, scholars, academics and policy makers in healthcare, public policy, and economics.
List of contents
Chapter 1. New horizons for health and care: from digital innovation and ageing to integrated Systems. Organizational challenges and opportunities.- Chapter 2. Innovative and Sustainable Accounting Practices for the Management And Prevention of Chronic Diseases.- Chapter 3. A Multimodal Data Collection Approach in a Health Promotion Event: The Futuro Remoto Living Lab Experience.- Chapter 4. Interprofessional Health Workforce Development in the Context of an Ageing Population.- Chapter 5. Managing vaccine hesitancy among adults and elderly people.- Chapter 6. Telemedicine as a Response to the Shortage of Skilled Personnel in Home Care: An Integration Server for Remote Consultations as a Practical Model for Elderly Care.- Chapter 7. Digital Social Innovation for Active Aging: TrentinoSalute+, a Case Study of Participatory Health Promotion.- Chapter 8. Falls prevention: a multidimensional and intersectoral approach. The AGE-IT approach .- Chapter 9. Motivational Interviewing to Promote Self-Care Change: A Framework for Healthy Ageing in Clinical Practice.- Chapter 10. Health tourism: beyond the current model of thermal spa services.- Chapter 11. Designing for Longevity: Intersectoral Approach for Healthy Ageing through the Built Environment.- Chapter 12. Digital Work and Aging: An Empirical Study on Age-Dependent Effects of Work-From-Home, Gender, and Work-life Balance on Self-Reported Mental Well-being.
About the author
Alessandra Ricciardelli is an Associate Professor in Organization Studies at the Department of Economics, Statistics and Entrepreneurship, Universitas Mercatorum in Rome, Italy. Her main research interests include human resource management, organizational behaviour, change management, and organizational welfare.
Lorenzo Mercurio is Full Professor in Organization Studies at the Department of Public Health, University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy. His main research interests include healthcare organization design, healthcare management, business models in healthcare, innovation implementation, and organization models for healthcare.
