Geriatric medicine

This clinically focused book provides the essential modalities for managing pain in older patients.

Whether you're coping with a loved one who has received a terminal diagnosis, has a long-term illness or disability, or suffers with dementia, caregiving is challenging and crucial.

In this new color handbook, the authors deal systematically with those skin conditions that are particular to or more common in the elderly covering testing, diagnosis and treatment options.

This book highlights international efforts to better understand the role of individual differences in healthy aging by exploring new directions, methods, and questions within the field.

This book explores medical nonadherence to treatment and management of psychiatric disorders across the lifespan.

This book highlights the importance of investigating for ADHD in adults with attention difficulties, poor memory and executive function impairments.

This book presents a concise description and qualitative exploration of a new residential option for older adults: senior cohousing.

This handbook presents global research on health expectancies, a measure of population health that examines the interaction between quantity and quality of life.

This book provides a comprehensive and practical overview of the knowledge required for the assessment and management of the older adult with arthritis and other rheumatological conditions.

The new and updated edition of this book explains the key steps in planning and executing diagnostic test accuracy studies in dementia, serving as an introduction to the topic with clear explanations of difficulties and pitfalls.

Supported by the latest scientific data, this book serves as a guide to the clinical assessment of women's health during the second half of life (post-reproductive years), including approaches to the management of the most frequent age-related diseases and disorders and the most recent advances in treatment.

Geriatric patients have unique responses to treatment and disease, often harboring co-morbidities that can impact evaluation, treatment, and prognosis, which can require specialized expertise or experience.

Acetabular fractures in older adults are increasing in frequency and present unique challenges to the surgeons charged with their treatment.

This book describes the role of trace elements in health and longevity, pursuing a biogerontological approach.

This book is designed to guide all physicians in long-term care, in-, and outpatient settings who work with elders with co-current dementia and medical comorbidities.

This book is a clinical manual that covers the whole spectrum of swallowing and its disorders.

This updated and expanded second edition of Resilience in Aging offers a comprehensive description of the current state of knowledge with regard to resilience from physiological (including genetic), psychological (including cognitive and creative), cultural, and economic perspectives.

This book is a practical resource that will support the delivery of holistic mental health interventions in the primary and community care setting for older people.

Death Across Cultures: Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures, explores death practices and beliefs, before and after death, around the non-Western world.

The increase in average life expectancy observed over recent decades has brought new challenges to nephrology practice.

This textbook focuses on the criminality and victimization of the elderly population.

This manual takes a multidisciplinary approach to neurological disorders in the elderly.

This textbook presents real-world cases and discussions that introduce the various mental health syndromes found in the aging population before delving into the core concepts covered by geriatric psychiatry curricula.

Thanks to an increasing life expectancy of our populations the number of elderly persons is steadily growing and will continue to do so.

This book documents the state of the art in the field of ambient assisted living (AAL), highlighting the impressive potential of novel methodologies and technologies to enhance well-being and promote active ageing.

This book covers all aspects of the specialized field of gerontorheumatology, providing a complete overview of rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases and related conditions in the elderly.

This expanded, updated third edition summarizes the pragmatic diagnostic accuracy studies of neurological signs and cognitive and non-cognitive screening instruments undertaken in the author's clinic in the context of day-to-day practice involving patients with cognitive disorders including dementia.

This book provides an overall introduction to the medical management of dementia with chapters dedicated to specific topics such as pain, epilepsy, vascular risk factors in dementia and review of medication, which are often not addressed in books on the subject, and thereby filling a gap in the field.

This book focuses on the  circumstances  that lead to the marked increasedvulnerability of seniors and are most challenging to clinicians including thepresence of multiple chronic medical conditions, variable losses ofphysiological function, and heterogeneity among individuals.

This volume highlights the socioeconomic concerns related to medical care for homeless patients and places them at the interface of common psychiatric and medical problems clinicians encounter.

This book discusses all important aspects of emergency medicine in older people, identifying the particular care needs of this population, which all too often remain unmet.

This book summarizes evidence on frailty and ageing, how this may impact patient outcomes and how frailty can be assessed, managed and incorporated in the decision-making process for older patients with cancer.

The present book intends to provide an update on immunosenescence and how deficiencies in the immune system contribute to a higher susceptibility to infections, decline in organ function, reduced vaccination responses, age-related disease and the ageing process itself, negatively affecting longevity.

This book critically explores the world of older prisoners to provide a more nuanced understanding of imprisonment at old age.

The global burden of geriatric hip fractures is enormous.

Though mental health recommendations for the elderly is rapidly evolving, the few current textbooks on this subject are either too voluminous or complex for regular review by clinicians, and most do not contain the latest information available in the field.

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 assembles many of the great leaders of the senior living and care industry to discuss their paths to and views on leadership.

Alzheimer's disease is the most prevalent form of dementia.

This book provides a comprehensive and practical guide to orthostatic hypotension (OH) for doctors and nurses involved in the care of older adults, together with a state-of-the-art update on OH, covering its epidemiology, pathophysiology, assessment, diagnosis, causes, prevention, management, and relevance for geriatric practice.

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This book presents state of the art knowledge and practice in the rapidly developing field of bronchiectasis not due to cystic fibrosis.

In this book, leading authors in the field discuss the habitats of tomorrow.

This multi-chapter book focuses on one of the hottest topics in ageing research - the role of hormones in health and longevity, offering a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of their mechanistic roles in health, ageing and longevity.

This book is addressed to physicians and other health professionals involved in the assessment and care planning of patients at the end of life.

This brief, accessible book covers all aspects of transient global amnesia (TGA).

The second edition of this well-received book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description of the diagnosis and management of dysphagia, including oral, pharyngeal, and esophageal dysfunction.

This book compares the wellbeing of older Russian adults in the EU, USA, China, Japan, and Russia.

This book explains how to promote and prolong "e;healthy ageing,"e; which constitutes maintaining daily functioning and well-being until the end of life.