Contents -- Contributors -- Preface to Series -- Preface to Volume 6 -- Chapter 1 Chinese Medicine has a Lot to Offer Ping-Chung Leung -- 1.1 Food as Medicine -- 1.2 Health Claims and Efforts to Regulate Claims -- 1.2.1 European Union -- 1.2.2 United States -- 1.2.3 China -- 1.3 How Should Health Claims be Justified? -- 1.4 Self-Help Exercise to Maintain Health -- 1.5 Discussion -- References -- 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 -- 2.1 History -- 2.1.1 The Christian churches were responsible for ideational aspects - scientists (only) for material aspects -- 2.1.2 Limitations of scientific explanations based on historic definitions and ontologies -- 2.2 The Given Situation -- 2.2.1 A medicine for bodies without soul and a medicine for souls without bodies -- 2.2.2 (New) Public Health (PH) -- 2.2.3 The debate about reproducible but unexplained phenomena -- 2.3 Some Remarks on the Philosophy of Einstein -- 2.4 Application of the Proposal of Einstein on the Extended View -- 2.4.1 Compatibility of different monistic ontologies -- 2.4.2 Compatibility of the levels of argumentation -- 2.4.3 Compatibility of different meanings of the term evolution -- 2.4.4 Open aspects -- 2.4.5 Further information -- 2.5 Remarks on the Chinese Medical Model -- References -- Chapter 3 The Hong Kong Cadenza Philosophy Ruby Yu and Jean Woo -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Principles -- 3.3 Project Vision -- 3.4 Four Major Components of the CADENZA Project -- 3.4.1 Public education -- 3.4.1.1 CADENZA 18-district program -- 3.4.1.2 CADENZA TV series -- 3.4.1.3 CADENZA press conference -- 3.4.1.4 CADENZA Symposium -- 3.4.1.5 Other activities -- 3.4.2 Training -- 3.4.3 Community projects -- 3.4.3.1 Jockey club CADENZA hub.

3.4.3.2 Chronic disease self-management program (CDSMP) -- 3.4.3.3 Elder-friendly employment practice -- 3.4.3.4 Health-social partnership transitional care model for post-discharged elderly -- 3.4.3.5 Transitional care for stroke patients -- 3.4.3.6 Elder at PEACE -- 3.4.2 Leadership training -- 3.5 Achievements and Impacts -- 3.5.1 Public education -- 3.5.2 Training -- 3.5.3 Community projects -- 3.5.4 Leadership training -- 3.6 Future Plans -- 3.7 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 4 Longevity, Life Satisfaction, Money and Aging David Schnaiter -- 4.1 The Demographic Shift and the Search for its Reasons -- 4.2 Necessary Expansions -- 4.3 Money and Life Satisfaction -- 4.4 Other Determinants of Life Satisfaction -- 4.5 Subjective Health and Aging -- 4.6 The Satisfaction Paradox of the Old -- 4.7 Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5 Understanding Between Generations: A Practicable Way to Help Create a Society Fit for All Ages Christa Erhart, Susanne Schinagl and Peter Erhart -- 5.1 Short Description of the Workshop with Children and Operating Instruction -- 5.1.1 Activity room 1: Classroom -- 5.1.2 Activity room 2: Outdoor activities -- 5.1.3 Activity room 3: Daily living -- 5.1.4 Activity room 4: Hearing and mishearing -- 5.1.5 Activity room 5: Public transport -- 5.1.6 Activity room 6: Children conference -- References -- 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 -- References -- Chapter 7 Promoting the Elderly Health in Hong Kong: Strategies and Actions Wai Man Chan -- 7.1 Aging of the Population -- 7.2 The Aging Phenomenon -- 7.3 Policy on Elderly Care -- 7.4 Active Aging -- 7.5 Health Promotion -- 7.6 Elderly Health Service -- 7.7 Health Assessment -- 7.8 Follow-Up Care -- 7.9 Measuring Health Outcomes.

7.10 Visiting Health Teams (VHTS) -- 7.11 Responding to Change -- 7.12 Expert Advice and Resource Support -- 7.13 Elder Academy -- 7.14 Carer Training and Neighbourhood Active Aging Project -- 7.15 From Research to Program -- 7.16 Media Publicity -- 7.17 Health Education Resource Materials -- 7.18 Future -- References -- Chapter 8 Integrative Medicine and Anti-Aging in Japan Kazuhiko Atsumi -- 8.1 History of Medicine -- 8.2 Anti-Aging -- 8.3 Integrative Medicine -- 8.4 Traditional Medicine -- 8.4.1 Chinese medicine -- 8.4.2 Kampo -- 8.4.3 Ayurveda -- 8.5 Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) -- 8.5.1 Yoga -- 8.5.2 Acupuncture -- 8.5.3 Qigong -- 8.5.4 Naturopathy -- 8.5.5 Manual therapy -- 8.5.6 Hot spring therapy -- 8.6 Scientific Approach to CAM/TM -- 8.7 The Model of Integrative Anti-Aging Clinic -- 8.8 Regional Model for Integrative Medical Center -- 8.9 Future Medicine -- 8.10 Summary -- Chapter 9 Medical Resonance Therapy Music Dr. Ernest HM, Ma -- 9.1 Acupuncture and Music Therapy -- 9.2 Specific Acupoints and Meridians -- 9.3 Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10 Neuroscience and Meditation Tatia M.C. Lee, Nerissa S.P. Ho, Jing Yin, Chack-Fan Lee Chetwyn C.H. Chan and Kwok-Fai So -- 10.1 Neuroplasticity -- 10.2 Structural Anatomical Changes of the Brain -- 10.3 Functional Changes in the Brain -- 10.3.1 Attention -- 10.3.1.1 Regulation of the default mode network (DMN) -- 10.3.1.2 Sustained attention -- 10.3.2 Positive emotion -- 10.4 Potential Therapeutic Value of Meditation -- 10.5 Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Chapter 11 Shaolin Mind-Body Exercise as a Neuropsychological Intervention Agnes Suiyin Chan and Sophia Laiman Sze -- 11.1 Exercises Improve the Cognitive Functions -- 11.2 The Shaolin Mind-Body Exercise -- References.

Chapter 12 Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy as a Tool for Quality Control of Traditional Chinese Herbal Medicines Lukas Bittner, Stefan Schönbichler and Christian Huck -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Applications -- 12.3 Perspective -- 12.4 Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Index.