Ping-Chung Leung Jean Woo - Health, Wellbeing, Competence and Aging

ANNALS OF TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE

Series Editors:Ping-Chung Leung
(The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

Charlie Changli Xue
(RMIT University, Australia)

Published

Volume 1Chinese Medicine Modern Practice
Edited by Ping-Chung Leung & Charlie Changli Xue
ISBN: 978-981-256-018-6
Publication date: February 2005 252 pp.

Volume 2Current Review of Chinese Medicine: Quality Control of Herbs and Herbal Material
Edited by Ping-Chung Leung, Harry Fong & Charlie Changli Xue
ISBN: 978-981-256-707-9
Publication date: May 2006 308 pp.

Volume 3Alternative Treatment for Cancer
Edited by Ping-Chung Leung & Harry Fong
ISBN: 978-981-270-929-5
Publication date: November 2007 384 pp.

Volume 4Healthy Aging
Edited by Ping-Chung Leung
ISBN: 978-981-431-771-9
Publication date: October 2010 284 pp.

Volume 5Evidence-Based Acupuncture
Edited by Tang-Yi Liu & Ping-Chung Leung
ISBN: 978-981-432-417-5
Publication date: January 2013 Approx: 204 pp.

Ping-Chung Leung
Jean Woo

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Walter Kofler

Medical University of Innsbruck and President of International Academy of Science H&E, Austria

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Health, wellbeing, competence, and aging / edited by Ping-Chung Leung.

p. ; cm. -- (Annals of traditional Chinese medicine ; vol. 6)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-9814425667 (hardcover : alk. paper)

I. Leung, Ping-Chung, 1941 editor of compilation. II. Series: Annals of traditional Chinese

medicine ; v. 6.

[DNLM: 1. Medicine, Chinese Traditional. 2. Aging. 3. Health Promotion. 4. Mental

Competency. 5. Quality of Life. WB 55.C4]

RA776.75

613.2--dc23

2013017693

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Editorial Board of the Annals of Tradictional Chinese Medicine

Special Advisors:
Ke-Ji Chen (China)
Seung-Hoon Choi (Philippines)
David Eisenberg (USA)
Shi-Long Lai (Hong Kong)
Shichen Zhang (Hong Kong)
Xiaorui Zhang (Switzerland)

Chief Editors:
Ping-Chung Leung (Hong Kong)
Harry H.-S. Fong (USA)
Charlie Changli Xue (Australia)

Executive Editors:
William King-Fai Cheng (Hong Kong)
Sim-Kim Cheng (Singapore)
Chye-Tee Goh (Singapore)

Contents

Ping-Chung Leung

Chapter 2 Extended View of a Bio-Psycho-Socio-Eco-Cultural
Model and the Self-Understanding of Western
Medicine and New Public Health
Walter Kofler

Ruby Yu and Jean Woo

David Schnaiter

Chapter 5 Understanding Between Generations: A Practicable
Way to Help Create a Society Fit for All Ages
Christa Erhart, Susanne Schinagl
and Peter Erhart

5.1Short Description of the Workshop
with Children and Operating Instruction

Chapter 6 The Life as a Struggle for Immortality: History
of Ideas in Russian Gerontology
(With Immunoneuroendocrine Bias)
Leonid P. Churilov and Yury I. Stroev

Chapter 7 Promoting the Elderly Health in Hong Kong:
Strategies and Actions
Wai Man Chan

7.14Carer Training and Neighbourhood Active
Aging Project

Kazuhiko Atsumi

Dr. Ernest HM, Ma

Tatia M.C. Lee, Nerissa S.P. Ho, Jing Yin,
Chack-Fan Lee Chetwyn C.H. Chan and Kwok-Fai So

10.2Structural Anatomical
Changes of the Brain

Chapter 11 Shaolin Mind-Body Exercise as a
Neuropsychological Intervention
Agnes Suiyin Chan and Sophia Laiman Sze

Chapter 12 Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy as a Tool
for Quality Control of Traditional Chinese
Herbal Medicines
Lukas Bittner, Stefan Schnbichler and Christian Huck

Contributors

Kazuhiko Atsumi

The University of Tokyo

1-6-2 Mukogaoka, Bunkyo-ku

Tokyo, 113-0023, Japan

Lukas Bittner

Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Radiochemistry

CCB-Center for Chemistry and Biomedicine

Leopold-Franzens University

Innrain 80-82, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Agnes Suiyin Chan

Department of Psychology

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Shatin, NT, Hong Kong

Chetwyn C. H. Chan

Laboratory of Neuropsychology

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Wai Man Chan

Rm 3502 Hopewell Centre

183 Queens Rd East, Wanchai, Hong Kong

Leonid P. Churilov

198332 St. Petersburg

Leninskiy Prosp. Bld. 100-2, ap. 662 Russia

Christa Erhart

A-5020 Saalachstr 96, Austria

Peter Erhart

A-5020 Saalachstr 96, Austria

Dr. Ernest HM

Tai Po Hospital, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong

Nerissa S. P. Ho

Laboratory of Neuropsychology

The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Christian Huck

Institute of Analytical Chemistry and Radiochemistry

CCB-Center for Chemistry and Biomedicine

Leopold-Franzens University

Innrain 80-82, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria