Author: N/A Publisher: BMJ Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Demographic trends confirm what clinicians already know - they are spending increasing amounts of time dealing with older people. This new ABC provides an introduction to the new and increasing challe...
Author: Barry, Kristen Lawton / Oslin, David W. / Blow, Frederic C. Publisher: Springer Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This manual provides state-of-the-art, practical materials to detect, prevent, and intervene with older adults who are at-risk and problem drinkers. It provides the first systematic, practical approac...
Author: Tuokko, Holly Publisher: Psychology Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This vol. meets a growing need in the areas of geriatric assessment combining data from studies in the area of cognitive aging, changes in cog. functioning, caregivers reports, and ethics. For psychol...
Author: N/A Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Overall this issue is well organized and informative, a welcome addition to research literature available in the field of aging." - Educational Gerontology: Learning Resources
Author: N/A Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this volume, dedicated to M. Powell Lawton, the editors emphasize the need to create new bridges to connect research studies focusing on objective physical environments and other studies mainly add...
Author: N/A Publisher: Springer Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Is the United States prepared for the Baby Boomers to grow old? This book seeks to answer these questions. It also suggests strategies to make sure that the answer to these questions becomes YES. Mu...
Author: Pawelec, G. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Ageing is of perennial interest as a universal feature in all human societies. The genetic background and biochemical bases of ageing processes are currently being revealed in unprecedented detail. It...
Author: Masoro, E.J. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For many years, it has been known that when rats and mice are given a reduced amount of food, their life span is increased and they remain healthy and vigorous at advanced ages. What is the reason for...
Author: McPhee, Stephen J. / Winker, Margaret A. / Rabow, Michael W. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: From one of the world’s leading medical journals comes the definitive evidence-based, full-color guide to end-of-life and palliative care"...represents an important milestone in the evolution of...
Author: McPhee, Stephen J. / Winker, Margaret A. / Rabow, Michael W. Publisher: McGraw-Hill Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From one of the world’s leading medical journals comes the definitive evidence-based, full-color guide to end-of-life and palliative care"...represents an important milestone in the evolution of...
Author: N/A Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book focuses on language and communication issues with older people with mental health problems. Radically revised and updated from the authors earlier book, Communication Disability and the Psyc...
Author: Berman, Jacqueline / Furst, Lisa M. Publisher: Springer Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Late life depression has become increasingly prevalent among older adults. This book presents guidelines to help enable aging and social service programs to establish a mental health education and scr...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This textbook provides a practical and comprehensive account of the management of diarrhoea and constipation in the elderly. These common disorders in the elderly are not only a burden in themselves b...
Author: Rai, Gurcharan S. Publisher: Taylor & Francis Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Conventional medical diagnoses and treatments take on much greater complexity when applied to older patients. This volume provides a comprehensive profile of each issue facing the clinician treating p...
Author: Konstantinidis, G. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Dictionaries are didactic books used as consultation instruments for self-teaching. They are composed by an ordered set of linguistic units which reflects a double structure, the macrostructure which ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Springer Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Enduring Questions in Gerontology provides a comprehensive perspective on the abiding issues in gerontology. Both current and future gerontologists will find this book useful in examining emerging di...
Author: Mattson, Mark P. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Experts in the fields of energy metabolism, aging and oxidative stress provide an integrated view of how mechanisms involved in regulating energy metabolism are linked to fundamental processes of agin...
Author: Qizilbash, Nawab / Schneider, Lon S. / Chui, Helena Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The era of therapeutic nihilism in dementia has ended, with the emergence of agents for symptomatic treatment, those that delay the course of the disease or prevent the onset of dementia, and new meth...
Author: N/A Publisher: Springer Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Improve Service Delivery with New Evidence-Based Guidelines Geared to improve service delivery in the care of older adults, this new and more authoritative approach to practice and management is sup...
Author: Lord, Stephen R. / Sherrington, Catherine / Menz, Hylton B. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Over the past two decades there has been a great deal of international, specialized research activity focused on risk factors and prevention strategies for falls in older people. This book provides he...
Author: Conn, P. Michael Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Handbook is designed as the only comprehensive work available that covers the diversity of aging models currently available. For each animal model, it presents key aspects of biology, nutrition,...
Author: Wang, Eugenia Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Handbook of the Aging Brain brings together diverse scientific disciplines to cover the most recent research findings in an easy-to-read summary. Scientists and clinicians will find a wide spectrum of...
Author: Halter, Jeffrey B. / Ouslander, Joseph G. / Tinetti, Mary Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The most complete, authoritative guide available on the diagnosis and treatment of disorders affecting the elderly -- updated with a new global perspective A Doody's Core Title! "In addition to serv...
Author: Halter, Jeffrey B. / Ouslander, Joseph G. / Tinetti, Mary ; Studenski, Stephanie ; H Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The most complete, authoritative guide available on the diagnosis and treatment of disorders affecting the elderly -- updated with a new global perspective A Doody's Core Title! "In addition to serv...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The significance of hormone action in psychiatry has been long studied, but only very recently has this study included the psychiatric effects of hormones on the aging process. This pioneering clinica...
Author: Chew-Graham,Carolyn A. / Baldwin,Robert / Burns,Alistair Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Depression is one of the most common mental health problems facing older people, and it is often unrecognised and usually under-treated. Integrated Management of Depression in the Elderly provides an ...
Author: Wade, Sian Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Intermediate care has become a buzzword within health and social care over the last few years. Seen as the panacea for a number of woes, particularly for older people, intermediate care has been held ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: There is a growing body of scientific knowledge regarding development during the middle years which has so far been relegated to discipline-specific texts and journals (e.g., clinical psychology and e...
Author: N/A Publisher: Springer Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Our elderly population is the fastest-growing segment of society, and pain, particularly chronic pain, is one of the most common problems this group faces. In Managing Pain in the Older Adult, Dr. Jan...
Author: Higgs, Paul Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As populations throughout the world grow older, the health of older people becomes more and more important for policy makers and the public alike. This book reflects on how our understanding and exper...
Author: Mattson, Mark P. Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The lipids of cellular membranes not only serve roles in controlling the structure and fluidity of the membrane, but are increasingly recognized for their roles as signalling molecules and modifiers o...
Author: N/A Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The effect of aging on brain function has become a topic of great interest in psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, and gerontology over the past decade. Current research has fundamentally changed how...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Older People and Mental Health Nursing provides an evidence-based guide to caring for the growing number of older people with mental health issues. It focuses on the knowledge and key skills which pra...
Author: Mindszenthy, Bart J. / Gordon, Michael Publisher: Dundurn Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Parenting Your Parents shows, through case studies, that you are not alone and offers advice to help you along this difficult but rewarding journey.
Description: A guide for doctors to quickly choose the right drugs in the right dose for the most important clinical problems in the elderlyPrescribing medications for elderly patients is complex - this book gives...
Author: N/A Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The fourth edition of the highly acclaimed Principles and Practice of Geriatric Medicine provides an account of the fundamental changes associated with ageing, which are essential to our understanding...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sleep disorders cause considerable morbidity and distress in the aging population. By highlighting the clinical diagnosis and management of sleep disorders, this volume provides a valuable resource fo...
Author: N/A Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The past few years have witnessed widespread acceptance of the notion that few elderly individuals are willing to stand by silently in the process of growing, and to relinquish whatever actual control...
Author: Costa, Paul Publisher: Elsevier S&T Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Recent Events in the Psychology of Aging documents the successful integration of aging into the mainstream of psychology. Leading psychologists present overviews of the key issues and research finding...
Author: Resnick, Barbara Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The purpose of restorative care nursing is to take an active role in helping older adults maintain their highest level of function, thus preventing excess disability. This book was written to help
Author: Schulz, Richard Publisher: Springer Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A COMPREHENSIVE RESOURCE ON GERONTOLOGY AND GERIATRICS Since its inception in 1987, The Encyclopedia of Aging has proven to be the definitive resource for scholars and students across the burgeoning ...
Author: Gruman, Gerald Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Dr. Gruman's book examines the quest for longevity and immortality up to the year 1800. He presents multicultural perspectives and attitudes as depicted in Islamic and Chinese societies as well as
Author: N/A Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This volume of the Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics helps readers see the local problem and concern of aging as a global epidemic affecting all areas of the health care workplace.
Author: N/A Publisher: Springer Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This volume addresses the extraordinary need to educate personnel at all levels in gerontology and geriatric medicine and in the design and delivery of health and social services. The historical devel...
Author: N/A Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Enduring Questions in Gerontology provides a comprehensive perspective on the abiding issues in gerontology. Both current and future gerontologists will find this book useful in examining em
Author: N/A Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Health care and human service professionals often experience anxiety about potential adverse legal repercussions for actions taken or not taken in the course of caring for patients or clients.
Author: N/A Publisher: Springer Publishing Company Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Improve Service Delivery with New Evidence-Based Guidelines Geared to improve service delivery in the care of older adults, this new and more authoritative approach to practice and
Author: Publishing, Springer Publisher: Springer Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A virtual Who's Who in the field of cognitive psychotherapy! Tracing the history and derivation of cognitive psychotherapy, the authors discuss its recent developments as an evolving and integrative ...
