Preventing and Managing Osteoporosis

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Osteoporosis is a silent but crippling disease process that can have devastating consequences for the successful aging of most women and many men. This book will raise awareness and inform health professionals about this often preventable and treatable disease. Written by a team of authors from medicine, nursing, nutrition, exercise physiology, and physical therapy, the book provides an overview of the disease process--discussing its epidemiology, strategies for prevention and treatment, as well as the clinical implications of osteoporosis across disciplines.

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Sarah Hall Gueldner, DSN, is Professor of Nursing and fellow in the Institute of Primary and Preventative Health Care at Binghamton University, in Binghamton, New York, and the Arline H. and Curtis F. Garvin Visiting Professor of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University (2006-2007). Dr. Gueldner earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Tennessee College of Nursing in Memphis, a Master of Nursing degree from Emory University, and a Doctor of Science in Nursing degree from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, where she was named Medical Center Graduate Fellow. She completed postdoctoral study in psychoneuroimmunology at Emory University. Dr. Gueldner held an appointment as Senior Research Scientist at the University of Georgia Gerontology Center from l988-l994 and is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, the National Academies of Practice, the Gerontological Society of America, and the Association of Gerontology in Higher Education. Dr. Gueldner's research centers on health promotion in elderly populations, with secondary work related to the development of a picture tool to measure personal sense of well-being in compromised populations. She served as the principal investigator of a federally funded study that examined the benefits of exercise in nursing home residents and community-dwelling elders and has published the findings of her five-year study profiling the prevalence of osteoporosis in rural women. She has also conducted lifestyle research testing a number of interventions, including exercise, environmental enrichment, mood, life satisfaction, and immunocompetence in elderly populations. Given that smoking places individuals at greater risk for developing osteoporosis, Dr. Gueldner is principal investigator for a randomized, double-blind clinical trial that tests a variety of interventions to support smoking cessation.