Geriatric medicine

This new edition of the popular and market-leading Diabetes in Old Age features up-to-date and comprehensive information about the key aspects of managing older people with diabetes, predominantly type 2 diabetes.

As you age, you may find yourself worrying about your memory.

Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and is becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost-effective care.

This sixth edition of the Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine takes us now into the third decade for this definitive award-winning textbook.

Now fully revised and in its fourth edition, the Oxford Handbook of Oncology has been the essential go-to guide for students and practitioners in oncology for over a decade.

This book describes the issues and challenges that clinicians encountered in the management of older critically ill patients during the Covid-19 pandemic, and offers practical information on how to manage them.

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a major cause of disability affecting about 1% of the population.

A broad and in-depth discussion of the important, but still uninformed, field of behavioral disturbances associated with Parkinson''s disease.

New trends in mental healthcare practice and a rapid increase in the aged population are causing an explosion in the fields of clinical gerontology and geropsychology today.

This new edition of the Oxford Handbook in Geriatric Medicine has been expanded and updated to reflect the substantial changes in clinical practice since the previous edition, including the Francis report and the impact on care for the older patient, the National Dementia Strategy and screening, and the evolution of the role of Geriatricians in other specialities.

Working with the needs of patients with Alzheimer's disease can be a major challenge for primary care physicians, psychiatrists, and other mental-health professionals.

Disaster Public Health and Older People introduces professionals, students and fieldworkers to the science and art of promoting health and well-being among older people in the context of humanitarian emergencies, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income country settings.

As the first generation of gay men enters its autumn years, these men's responses to the physical and emotional tolls of aging promise to be as revolutionary as their advances in AIDS and civil rights activism.

Given medical advances and greater understanding of healthful living habits, people are living longer lives.

Since its beginning, Buddhism has been intimately concerned with confronting and understanding death and dying.

Geriatric psychiatry is a relatively young discipline within the field of North American psychiatry.

With people living longer, dementia is now at the forefront of medical research.

Geriatric psychiatry is a relatively young discipline within the field of North American psychiatry.

Case Studies in Palliative and End-of-Life Care uses a case-based approach to provide students and practitioners with an important learning tool to improve critical thinking skills and encourage discussion toward improving experiences for patients and their families.

A unique, documented case against the legalisation of ''assisted dying'', based mainly on empirical and logical ''slippery slope'' concerns.

Cognitive deficits are part of the normal aging process and are exacerbated by various diseases that affect adults in old age, such as dementia, depression, and stroke.

Osteoarthritis (OA) is among the top 10 of most disabling diseases in the Western world.

A wide variety of ambitions and measures to slow, stop, and reverse phenomena associated with aging have been part of human culture since early civilization.

In what ways do health behaviors and societal mechanisms help or discourage individuals in assuming responsibility for their health?

In the past 25 years, the frontal lobes have dominated human neuroscience research.

Holistic models of cancer and palliative care frequently refer to spirituality as an important element.

Health resources are becoming increasingly constrained.

Demographic and epidemiological changes mean that frail older people have come to be seen as an expensive problem for health care systems.

In the 21st century, people in the developed world are living longer.

Illustrated with abundant clinical material, this book provides essential knowledge and skills for effective mental health practice with older adults.

The Clinical Pocket Guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing is a companion guide to Advanced Practice Palliative Nursing, the first text devoted to advanced practice nursing care of the seriously ill and dying.

This book demonstrates the efficacy of a multidisciplinary intervention strategy for promoting active and healthy ageing, with the assistance of dedicated technological resources.

While the problems of aging are being studied with microscope, computer, and questionnaire as a medical, social, and economic challenge, these essays introduce the humanistic perspective.

Aging is an inevitable part of life and is becoming a worldwide social, economic and health problem.

This collection provides a comprehensive analysis of intervention approaches to dementia caregiving.

This book is an authoritative and well-structured text which is both topic and curriculum oriented, aimed to appeal to a wider multi-professional audience in line with the current NHS workforce training needs in the UK.

Population aging is challenging countries around the globe to adapt their public policy responses to the new world.

Fundamentals of Palliative Care for Student Nurses is a thorough yet accessible introduction and overview of a key area of the nursing programme.

A practical guide to the management of various clinical issues seen in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD), this text emphasizes the need for coordinated care between the various professionals, as well as between professionals and caregivers.

This practical, useful guide is for all clinicians involved in perioperative care of the geriatric patient undergoing surgery with anesthesia.

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This is the third edition of the foremost medical reference on hereditary hearing loss.

This book integrates contemporary knowledge about dementia across cultures, covering major clinical, epidemiological and scientific topics and enriched with personal insights.

The ambition of ageing science to discover the golden fleece of longevity and health is closely connected to the concept of 'successful ageing'.

Elderly Care Medicine Lecture Notes provides all the necessary information, within one short volume, for a sound introduction to the particular characteristics and needs of elderly patients.

The financial burden and the level of specialized care required to look after older adults with dementia has reached the point of a public health crisis.

As an objective of human security, it is important to understand the social system and to make more appropriate policies for people based on the bio-psycho-social viewpoint of health advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO).