Geriatric medicine

This book is focused on geriatric patients in critically ill conditions in the Emergency Room.

Vor dem Hintergrund der demografischen Entwicklung kommt der Versorgung geriatrischer Patienten durch geriatriespezifische Versorgungsangebote eine immer größere Bedeutung zu.

In this comprehensive and accessible guide, long-term care expert Stella Henry helps readers navigate the daunting logistics and powerful emotions of making care decisions for an elderly parent or loved one.

This book has two main purposes: formative case analysis and self-assessment of medicine in old age.

Heart Failure, Second Edition has been updated to provide the latest advancements in heart failure research.

One of the problems geriatricians are confronted with in everyday clinical practice is differentiating disease from the process of old age.

Die psychotherapeutische Behandlung Älterer stellt trotz des demografischen Wandels bisher ein eher randständiges Thema dar.

This book reviews the biology of spontaneous brain repair after stroke and the many forms of therapy being examined.

Early Vascular Aging (EVA): New Directions in Cardiovascular Protection brings together the last decade of research related to the characterization of EVA, as well as the predictive power of pulse wave velocity (PWV).

The major objective of this book is to review in detail health problems occurring with significant frequency in aging adults which are proposed to be treated or ameliorated using nutriceuticals as foods and dietary supplements as well as other complementary and alternative therapies.

Up to the 1990s, the influence of brain function disturbances and causes of dementia in the elderly had mostly been overlooked as a possible explanation for antisocial or unusual behaviour.

It is increasingly recognized that an individual's experience of old age is fundamentally influenced by their earlier life experiences.

After introductory chapters devoted to the safe production and distribution of vaccines, the book addresses the question of adult vaccination in the framework of a life-course approach to vaccination.

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Aging, Biohacking and Technology focuses on a broad range of issues that cover everything from the most basic ways technology and biohacking influence people's everyday lives to concerns about equity, globalization and how we humans produce, consume and are consumed by our technologies.

Cancer and aging are integrally related.

This book focuses on parasite life cycles and host pathology, with limited discussions of parasite morphology, taxonomy, and pharmacological treatments.

This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative phenomena.

This book guides readers through the correct use and consequent diagnostic and therapeutic relevance of 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in a wide spectrum of clinical presentations and different phenotypes of arterial hypertension.

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.

This unique guide provides a much needed overview of dementia care.

A concise and updated guide to the mental health of older people that includes sections on training, guidelines and treatments.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the field of developmental programming of ageing phenotypes.

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.

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.

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 innovative book provides a new conceptual analysis of loneliness - a condition associated with severe health consequences, including increased morbidity and early death.

Informatie over de psychogeriatrische cliënt in een handzaam zakboek: dat is wat dit boekje biedt.

Good counselling skills are often not taught to the professionals who need them most.

Aging is an irreversible natural process; we as humans develop many age-related disadvantages impacting many aspects of our life.

Publishing on the 50th anniversary of the opening of St Christopher's Hospice - widely thought of to be the first modern hospice, combining pain and symptom management with education and training - this edited collection discusses what motivates professionals and volunteers to provide spiritual care.

In 1998, Hallmark unveiled their new "e;One-Hundredth-Birthday"e; cards, and by 2007 annual sales were at 85,000.

Following the success of the previous edition, the second edition of Geriatrics Models of Care is the definitive resource for systems-based practice improvement for the care of older adults.

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

Despite of the enormous efforts of researchers and clinicians to understand the pathophysiology of falls in older adults and establish preventive treatments, there is still a significant gap in our understanding and treating of this challenging syndrome, particularly when we focus in cognitively impaired older adults.

This book offers a thorough examination of frailty, covering its complexity through sections on foundational concepts, pathogenesis research, assessment methods, management strategies, care settings, its relation to other chronic conditions, and societal implications.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

An essential, experience-based, practical guide for anyone looking to improve the care of older patients in the emergency department.

Because aging is accompanied by a steady decline in resistance to infectious diseases, the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases in the elderly is not only much more complex, but also often quite different from that for younger patients.

Die Sicherstellung einer angemessenen vollstationären Betreuung von Hilfe- und Pflegebedürftigen stellt eine Herausforderung im demografischen Wandel dar.

It is increasingly recognized that an individual's experience of old age is fundamentally influenced by their earlier life experiences.

This textbook fosters a deeper understanding of how home healthcare goals for older adults can be achieved through interprofessional collaboration.

The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue of ageing in the 21st century.

Originally published in 1984 and concentrating on the West Midlands area of the UK, this book describes the innovations that were made and all that was involved in bringing about changes in care provision for elderly people.