Geriatric medicine

In the 1960s and 1970s doctors were increasingly trained to apply science to the eradication of disease, the accent being on the treatment of disease rather than the true welfare of the patient.

This book is a series of twelve profound conversations with some of the foremost elder changemakers in the fields of aging and longevity, and it captures the essence of their wisdom and perspectives.

Originally published in 1983, this cross-national study had three aims.

This volume provides a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary overview of the aging lung, written by the main researchers in the field.

Human Ageing: A Unique Experience explores the biology of human ageing focusing on the individual.

If modernisation means mass longevity, it raises hopes that everyone may enjoy a full span of years.

This innovative and comprehensive reference book provides the most up-to-date information pertaining to the translational research field of oxidative stress and aging.

Be Fit for Life: A Guide to Successful Aging is a self-help book for anyone interested in living a happier and healthier life.

The book deals with basic cellular and molecular mechanisms associated with aging.

This encyclopedia brings together key established and emerging research findings in geropsychology.

This book describes the recent advancement of basic research on the biology of aging and longevity studies in various organisms, as well as the neurobiology of aging and neurodegeneration mechanisms.

This book discusses the intersections between culture, context, and aging.

This book offers an essential overview of aspiration pneumonia, and focuses on four major aspects: epidemiology, pathophysiology, new preventive strategies, and trending topics.

This book focuses on the nutrients and nutraceuticals that promote active and healthy ageing - recently defined by the WHO as the process of development and maintenance of functional capacity that allows well-being at an advanced stage of life.

This book highlights recent advances in our understanding of sarcopenia and frailty in CKD.

This first-of-its-kind work on elder abuse and mistreatment provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the subject.

This book examines the basic cellular and molecular mechanisms associated with aging.

This book sheds new light on health issues that concern both aging patients and their caregivers, and provides practical and in-depth insights.

This book describes the nature of aging, age-related disorders, and the molecular principles of emerging strategies for anti-aging interventions, while also discussing the discovery of targets for geroprotective drugs.

The lives of urban Chinese daughters have changed.

This book highlights different aspects of the problem of elder abuse and neglect in India, and discusses its forms as well as means of prevention, intervention and management.

This book provides multinational evidence on active and healthy ageing.

This book presents a comprehensive approach to treating dysphagia that has been successfully applied in actual rehabilitation settings.

This book addresses why and how the aging process is accelerated under diabetes, providing valuable and comprehensive information for the management of various types of diabetes- and aging-related disorders.

This volume highlights a range of issues underpinning elder care in India, with particular focus on the challenges that India faces in caring for the elderly.

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.

This book presents a collection of articles on various aspects of current research on aging.

This volume intends to re-establish social gerontology as a discipline that has pragmatic links to policy and practice.

Este libro busca ser un aporte al estudio del envejecimiento como proceso que abarca la vida entera y en el que se conjugan múltiples y disímiles influencias.

This essential illustrates to psychotherapists and counselors the importance of spirituality for strengthening personal resilience.

Conceptos tales como gestión del riesgo, detección y superación del evento adverso, atención humanizada, autonomía del paciente y calidad en el cuidado, hacen del presente texto una lectura obligada para enfermeras, estudiantes del área asistencial, médicos hospitalarios, geriatras, personal administrativo y de auditoría en salud y, en general, a todo aquel profesional que en su ejercicio diario tenga la mente puesta en la atención del anciano enfermo.

El envejecimiento poblacional desafía al sistema de salud, especialmente cuando se trata de la atención de personas frágiles con múltiples necesidades.

This book examines the social aspects of healthy ageing for older individuals.

This book brings together state-of-the-art research on successful aging in Asian populations and highlights how the factors that contribute to successful aging differ from those in the West.

The collective, inclusive, and intersectional framework used in this book speaks to the significance of understanding aging across diverse cultures from multiple perspectives, but still as a shared human experience.

This book approaches the concept of adjustment to aging and endeavors to build reader understanding of this construct through a critical review and discussion.

In comparison to Husserl and Heidegger, Max Scheler's philosophy of time as first presented here, is considerably wider in scope.

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The fact that there are special problems in the care of the elderly in the community is ample justification for writing a separate volume on the subject.

The older population, defined as those 65 years and older, has been steadily increasing as a percentage of the total population since 1900.

The master tool of logic is the syllogism.

Coronary artery bypass surgery in the elderly: Too often or too seldom?

Although this monograph "e;Dependency o r interdependency in old age"e; is not the first publication o f the European Social Sciences Research C- mittee (ESSRC) o f the International Association o f Gerontology, I a m happy, as former chairman o f the Committee (1964-1975), to introduce this book to the readers, together with the present chairman.

The aim of these short notes is to provide the newcomer to the speciality of geriatrics with a wide though not exhaustive differential diagnosis of most of the commonly encountered symptoms in the elderly, and to draw particular attention tothe common and important disorders.

Events in anyone day of the aged consist of the functions of daily living modified or enhanced for each individual according to his or her capability.

Most patients in developed nations with medical problems requiring hospital care are elderly.

The year was 1943.