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Health Education Research, Vol. 17, No. 1, 139-140, February 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

BOOK REVIEW

Promoting Health in Old Age—Critical Issues in Self Health Care

Miriam Bernard Open University Press, Buckingham, 2000 196 pp. ISBN 0-335-19247-5 (pb)

Stephen Weeks

South Leeds Community Unit Day Hospital

Bernard is Head of the School of Social Relations and Professor of Social Gerontology at Keele University. Those bald facts establish her suitability to produce this important volume in the Open Universities expanding Rethinking Ageing series. What makes this book particularly noteworthy is that she has produced it herself—quite a remarkable achievement.

In the Preface the point is made that this is `a synthesis of both practical experience and academic endeavour' and equally pertinent is . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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