Geriatric medicine

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 aims to disseminate and share knowledge about financial exploitation of elders with the purpose of protecting those individuals in our society who are most vulnerable to financial abuse and mistreatment.

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.

There is a growing need for a book on emergency general surgery in the elderly, as adults age 65 and older are the fastest growing segment of the population  worldwide, and their number is expected to double to 89 million between now and 2050.

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

The number of Americans 65 years of age or older is projected to more than double to over 98 million by 2060, making them 24% of the overall population.

This book provides a comprehensive yet concise review of geriatric psychiatry in preparation for the board exam, or for reference during practice.

The book serves as a guide for all clinicians seeking to improve healthcare outcomes by implementing peer support in the treatment and management of medical and mental health conditions.

This book is exclusively devoted to the often-challenging diagnosis, management and treatment of patients with non-neurogenic bladder dysfunction.

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 book describes the issues and challenges that clinicians encountered in the management of older critically ill patients during the Covid-19 pandemic, and offers practical information on how to manage them.

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

This unique book reviews the information available in the literature regarding the new syndrome, frailty, in patients with various renal conditions, such as acute kidney injury, chronic kidney disease, as well as dialysis and transplant patients.

This book focuses on centenarians - people aged 100 and over - one of the fastest growing segments of the population in most developed countries.

This book discusses the pathology of the retina, and reviews current research on the use of cell replacement therapy and short peptides to restore functional activity in retinal neurons.

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 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.

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 addresses the practical aspects of vibration exercise and vibration therapy.

Aging is an inevitable part of life and is becoming a worldwide social, economic and health problem.

This book provides basic knowledge and skills for non-dental healthcare practitioners, helping them recognize the importance of oral health, perform initial oral health assessments, consult dentists when necessary, and offer preventive advice and counseling.

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

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

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 brings together the emerging body of work on age-friendly neighbourhoods in Singapore, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and North America.

This book focuses on evidence-based occupational therapy in the care of older adults in different clinical settings, from home to acute hospital, from intensive care unit to rehabilitation centers and nursing homes.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of a growing phenomenon in migration: retired Americans moving to Latin America.

This book aims to clarify the potential association between frailty and cardiovascular disease in older people.

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.

As the Baby Boomers age, concerns over healthcare systems abilities to accommodate geriatric patients grow increasingly challenging.

This book is designed to present a state-of the-art approach to the assessment and management of anxiety disorders.

Care for older adults in Emergency Departments (EDs) has historically been focused on acute medical conditions with little emphasis on geriatric-specific issues.

This book aims to fill knowledge gap among healthcare workers about Clostridium difficile (also known as C.

This book covers the latest advances in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer care.

This book is an ideal reference guide for clinicians seeking to improve their decision making and treatment outcomes when placing dental implants in medically compromised patients, in whom conditions for osseointegration and soft tissue healing may be unfavorable.

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.

This edited work presents the most current evidence on osteosarcopenia from bench to bedside, which is expected to facilitate the understanding of this syndrome and to develop preventive and therapeutic strategies.

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

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

This book collects and reviews, for the first time, a wide range of advances in the area of human aging biomarkers.

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

This timely volume provides an up-to-date and comprehensive summary about what is known about aging and work and addresses the challenges and opportunities confronting older workers and organizations.

As the population of older adults in the U.

This state-of-the-art review on longevity focuses on centenarians, studied as a model of positive biology.

This comprehensive book presents an evidence-based approach to treating asthma in adults aged 65 and older, a vulnerable subset of patients who are more likely to experience higher morbidity and mortality rates, and often enduring higher financial burdens related to treatment.

This book serves as a comprehensive reference for the basic principles of caring for older adults, directly corresponding to the key competencies for medical student and residents.

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.

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.