International bestselling authors of YOU: The Owner's Manual and YOU: On a Diet give you all the tools and know-how to stay young and defy the ageing process.
Dieses Praxisbuch zeigt Physiotherapeuten, wie die Behandlung älterer Menschen zielgerichtet auf die Selbstständigkeit gelingt, sodass eine Förderung auf der Aktivitäts- und Partizipationsebene erfolgt.
Riveting in their emotional clarity and utterly jargon free, these 30 stories from real life penetrate how we grieve and how we can help those who grieve- whether the griever is oneself, someone we care about, or a client or patient.
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.
This handbook presents global research on health expectancies, a measure of population health that examines the interaction between quantity and quality of life.
This fully updated and revised new edition provides a comprehensive, state-of-the art review of this field, and will serve as a valuable resource for clinicians, surgeons and researchers with an interest in prostate cancer.
Improve Service Delivery with New Evidence-Based GuidelinesGeared to improve service delivery in the care of older adults, this new and more authoritative approach to practice and management is supported by the latest evidence-based guidelines from the leading experts in the field.
Originally published in 1984, the overall purpose of this book was to provide ideas and suggestions about the usefulness of applied psychology in dealing with some of the problems of the elderly.
The Handbook of Models for Human Aging is designed as the only comprehensive work available that covers the diversity of aging models currently available.
The Neurobiology of Aging and Alzheimer Disease in Down Syndrome provides a multidisciplinary approach to the understanding of aging and Alzheimer disease in Down syndrome that is synergistic and focused on efforts to understand the neurobiology as it pertains to interventions that will slow or prevent disease.
Das Buch widmet sich im theoretischen Teil den Erkenntnissen namhafter Vertreter unterschiedlicher Demenzpflegetheorien und diskutiert dabei praxisnah die Kernaussagen im Einklang mit den Botschaften des neuen Expertenstandards „Beziehungsgestaltung in der Pflege von Menschen mit Demenz“.
Against the background of Socrates' insight that the unexamined life is not worth living, Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old investigates the often overlooked inside dimensions of aging.
Palliative care is an essential element of our health care system and becoming increasingly significant amidst an aging society and organizations struggling to provide both compassionate and cost effective care.
The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry is an indispensable resource for psychiatric clinicians and trainees charged with assessing, diagnosing, and treating mental disorders in our nation's burgeoning population of older adults, as well as the nurses and other professionals who provide critically important care day to day.
This book is a quick-reference guide to osteoporosis that equips the reader with easy-to-follow guidelines for lifelong maintenance of skeletal structure and function, with an emphasis on the diagnosis, therapy and prevention of osteoporosis.
Nicole Adam führt im Rahmen eines Literaturreviews eine Recherche in Datenbanken und Suchmaschinen durch, die zeigt, dass Pflegepersonen zum Teil Wissensdefizite im Bereich der Symptome, der Schmerzeinschätzung und der Kommunikation bei Bewohnern und Bewohnerinnen mit Demenz haben.
This book illustrates the imperative for late-life depression prevention, introducing a broad range of approaches to prevention and provides detailed examples of clinical applications of late-life depression prevention - all with consideration of medical and scientific, social, economic and global health perspectives.
Het geriatrie formularium biedt een algemeen overzicht van de veranderingen die optreden bij het ouder worden en behandelt veel voorkomende problemen bij geriatrische patieënten.
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.
A dementia diagnosis can be terrifying and debilitating, but this unique book can provide caregivers-whether they are family members or professionals-with practical and simple tools to effectively address behavior and communication issues that may occur when providing care to those with dementia.
This book aims to provide an up-to-date review of the literature in each of the major areas relating to the management of older lung cancer patients, and makes recommendations for best practice and future research.
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.
In Johann Sebastian Bachs Musik werden Grenzgänge hörbar, die unser Leben begleiten: In seiner Kirchenmusik wird die Grenze zwischen Weltlichem und Göttlichem an vielen Themen durchgespielt, und in der „Kunst der Fuge“ glaubt man den Tod zu hören, wenn eine Stimme nach der anderen verklingt.
El envejecimiento poblacional desafía al sistema de salud, especialmente cuando se trata de la atención de personas frágiles con múltiples necesidades.
This book explores the transdisciplinary approach to general surgery for the frail patient, promoting the use of a geriatric model of care in general surgical settings and thus proposing a "e;gerosurgery"e; approach in frail persons beyond chronological age.
In diesem Buch werden die Wurzeln, Methoden und Möglichkeiten der Lebensrückblicktherapie, Biografiearbeit und weiterer Reminiszenzinterventionen dargestellt.
This edited volume contains technical contributions in the field of computer vision and image processing presented at the First International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP 2016).
Ageing population poses a set of complex policy and dilemmas for social security systems, intensifying the concerns about rising expenditures in health care and long-term care for elderly.
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.
Integrative geriatrics is a new field of medicine that advocates for a whole-person, patient-centered, primarily non-pharmacological approach to medical care of the elderly.
This innovative reference explores a wide selection of topics associated with aging, providing a solid understanding of the significance and molecular basis of the aging process and charting the course of future research in the area.
Das Alter bietet Chancen und Entwicklungspotenziale, wie zum Beispiel die „späte Freiheit“, die Perspektiven eröffnet und ein erfülltes Leben ermöglicht.