The growing number of older adults in the United States poses a significant challenge to families, healthcare systems, mental health services, and many other caregiving groups.
Current Challenges and Management of Disease in the Elderly Population is a comprehensive insight into the diseases and their management in elderly population during ageing.
The third edition of Hospice and Palliative Care is the essential guide to the hospice and palliative care movement both within the United States and around the world.
Medical Education in Geriatrics: Strategies for Teaching the Care of Older Adults provides an overview of evidence-based strategies for teaching geriatrics in medical education.
Detailed Review of Nutritional Therapies Used to Combat Elderly Health IssuesThe combination of the aging baby-boomer generation and their increased longevity has been fortunately met with increased research and greater understanding of health promotion and disease prevention in the elderly.
Written by leading international experts, this book helps students and practitioners to better understand and cater for the needs of our ageing population.
In recent years, a tremendous amount of effort has been focused on better understanding the fundamentals of Alzheimer's disease (AD) to facilitate early and accurate diagnosis and appropriately targeted therapeutic treatments.
Despite the modern trend towards empowering patients and giving them more choice, the nuts and bolts of medical practice largely remain a mystery - a closed box.
Multi-disciplinary in its approach, this book details key psychiatric conditions, their assessment and management in line with modern developments, including the latest developments in healthcare policy.
Use of the arts in palliative care settings is a powerful and effective way of addressing the practical, psychological, social and spiritual issues faced by service users in end-of-life care.
Narcolepsy serves as a prototype of how the interaction of high quality clinical research and groundbreaking basic science can collaborate to defne the cause of a disease and change forever how we evaluate and treat it.
Osteoporosis currently affects 25 million people in the United States, and as the baby boomers enter their fifties, this bone-weakening disease is poised to strike millions more.
This textbook presents real-world cases and discussions that introduce the various psychiatric syndromes found in the aging population before delving into the core concepts covered by geriatric psychiatry curricula.
Bernard Sablonnière développe dans ce livre une véritable « science de la vieillesse » : il explique pour nous les mécanismes du vieillissement cellulaire, de la peau, des organes, des os, du cerveau ; il montre le rôle conjoint de la génétique, de la biologie, de l’environnement et du mode de vie, en particulier de l’alimentation.
Presented in this volume is a discussion of current literature and theoretical issues relating to three aspects of late-life age-related cognitive change.
The growing number of older adults in the United States poses a significant challenge to families, healthcare systems, mental health services, and many other caregiving groups.
The Manual of Geriatric Anesthesia is a practical guide for physicians, residents, and students interested in the care of the elderly patient undergoing surgery.
Building upon the strengths of the popular reference, Cancer in the Elderly, this guide outlines novel approaches in the identification and management of cancer in geriatric populations by world-renowned experts on the topic.
'Wonderful, thoughtful, practical' - Cariad Lloyd, Griefcast'Encouraging and inspiring' - Dr Kathryn Mannix, author of Amazon bestseller With the End in MindWe all know how this ends is a new approach to death and dying, showing how exploring our mortality really can change our lives.
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.
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.
Critical care medicine is a dynamic and exciting arena where complex pathophysiologic states require extensive knowledge and up-to-date clinical information.
The increasing demand for innovative techniques arises from the lack of safe, effective, and patient-friendly therapies for neurodegenerative disorders.
Evidence-Informed Approaches for Managing Dementia Transitions provides evidence-informed approaches and future directions for supporting a higher quality of life for people living with dementia.
Covering epidemiology, evidence-based risk assessment and falls-prevention strategies, this book will be invaluable to all involved with health care of the elderly.
Psycho-Oncology is a comprehensive handbook that provides best practice models for the management of psychological, cognitive, and social outcomes of adults living with cancer and their families.
Wisdom Mind is a scientifically tested mindfulness program for older adults - those who are cognitively healthy, as well as those who may be experiencing what is referred to as subjective cognitive decline.
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.
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).
Since the efforts of Dame Cicely Saunders and the founders of the modern hospice movement, compassion has become a fundamental part of palliative care.
