A practical guide to providing home-based mental health services, Providing Home Care for Older Adults teaches readers how to handle the unique aspects of home-based care and apply and adapt evidence-based assessment and treatment within the home-based setting.
Reduced production of DHEA associated with the diseases that accompany aging has led to its use as a nutritional supplement for antiaging, metabolic support, and other purposes.
Interdisziplinäre Dimensionen des Total Pain in der Palliativen Geriatrie Im Zentrum von Total Pain stehen die spirituellen, existenziellen und sozialen Herausforderungen, vor denen Menschen am Lebensende oder mit schweren, fortschreitenden Erkrankungen stehen.
This book offers comprehensive information on the new and rapidly evolving science of identifying and targeting senescent cells, and on the exciting prospect of new diagnostic and therapeutic opportunities for stopping, and even reversing, the progression of disease and the deterioration of the human body due to ageing.
The rapidity of scientific progress over the last few years guarantees the utility of this new collection of state-of-the-art reviews on the immunology of aging, which is the result of extensive collaboration of more than sixty of the greatest thinkers and scholars in the field, in cooperation with a number of junior colleagues.
Die Interpersonelle Psychotherapie (IPT) ist ein wirksames psychotherapeutisches Verfahren zur Depressionsbehandlung im ambulanten und stationären Setting.
Over the past two decades there has been a marked change in global age demographics, with the number of over-60s increasing by 82% and the number of centenarians by 715%.
Nach dem erfolgreichen Werk "Seniorenspielbuch - Reaktivierung Dementer in Pflege und Betreuung" widmet sich Ursula Stöhr diesmal dem wichtigen Thema Ressourcen in der Pflege.
Medication costs and common drug-related problems, such as misapplication of therapy, medication misuse, and adverse effects, can often be avoided or reduced.
This volume provides insight into the pivotal roles of stem cells, exosomes and other microvesicles in biofunction and molecular mechanisms and their therapeutic potential in translational nanomedicine.
This book describes geriatrics practice models that are used to guide the care of older adults, allowing seniors to remain at home, prevent functional disability and preserve quality of life.
This book discusses in detail the pathological aspects associated with alterations in the gut microbiota and the pathogenesis of different disorders related to dysbiosis.
In the 7 years since the first edition of Clinical Manual of Geriatric Psychopharmacology was published, dozens of new drugs have been released, and older medications have been marketed in different formulations.
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.
This book provides an overview of recent advances in the study of aging and aging related diseases, discussing the topics at individual, organ, tissue, cell, and molecular levels.
Geared toward sleep specialists, neurologists, geriatricians, and psychiatrists, Geriatric Sleep Medicine presents the most current medical research for the diagnosis and management of sleep disorders in the older patient.
Physical Activity and the Aging Brain: Effects of Exercise on Neurological Function is a complete guide to the manifold effects of exercise and physical activity on the aging brain.
Enzymes in RNA Science and Biotechnology, Volume 691 in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, including chapters on Reverse transcriptase Part I (discovery, preparation, general utilization, MarathonRT for routine RT-PCR and for cDNA synthesis on challenging RNA templates Structured RNAs, repeat RNAs and more, Engineering TNA Polymerases Through Iterative Cycles of Directed Evolution, Reverse transcriptase Part II (RNA structure mapping and determination), RNA G-quadruplex (rG4) structure detection using RTS and SHALiPE assays, tRNA Structure-seq in vivo and in droplets, Capture the in vivo intact RNA structurome by CAP-STRUCTURE-seq, and more.
First published in 1976, You and Your Aging Parent is a classic--the first book to shed light on the challenging relationship between adult children and their aging parents, illuminating the emotional, health, and financial difficulties that elderly parents and their children face during the senior years.
This book integrates contemporary knowledge about dementia across cultures, covering major clinical, epidemiological and scientific topics and enriched with personal insights.
Written by international experts, this book presents chapters that cover common geriatric conditions including dementia, depression, delirium, falls, polypharmacy, incontinence, immobility, and medication-related issues, as well as neurological, cardiovascular, and endocrine diseases associated with old age.
The first edition of Parkinson's Disease and Nonmotor Dysfunction was published in 2005 to provide a source of detailed information that could be readily accessed by the practicing physician.
Reingard Lange beleuchtet vier Bereiche der sozialen Vernetzung bei Menschen mit beginnender Demenz: im engsten sozialen Umfeld, zusammen mit Profis bzw.
The Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences, Sixth Edition provides a comprehensive summary and evaluation of recent research on the social aspects of aging.
