TY - BOOK ID - 77943926 TI - Health, wellbeing, competence and aging AU - Leung, Ping-Chung AU - Woo, Jean AU - Kofler, Walter PY - 2013 SN - 9814425672 9789814425674 9789814425667 PB - New Jersey : World Scientific, DB - UniCat KW - Medicine, Chinese. KW - Aging. KW - Health promotion. KW - Quality of life. KW - Life, Quality of KW - Economic history KW - Human ecology KW - Life KW - Social history KW - Basic needs KW - Human comfort KW - Social accounting KW - Work-life balance KW - Health promotion programs KW - Health promotion services KW - Promotion of health KW - Wellness programs KW - Preventive health services KW - Health education KW - Age KW - Ageing KW - Senescence KW - Developmental biology KW - Gerontology KW - Longevity KW - Age factors in disease KW - Chinese medicine KW - TCM (Medicine) KW - Traditional Chinese medicine KW - Traditional medicine KW - Physiological effect KW - Mental health. KW - Longevity. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77943926 AB - The fear of death may translate into the desire for longevity. However, longevity is a true blessing only if it is coupled with good health. Healthiness, in today's expectation, is not simply a disease free state. Rather, it is very much a state of wellbeing and competence, both physically and socially. While Oriental medicine emphasizes on the promotion of physiological balance and internal balance as an integral requirement for longevity, other cultures also have various sophisticated concepts and orientations. This book successfully collates all the different views and approaches from Austr ER -