Geriatric medicine

Clinical Manual of Geriatric Psychiatry provides the most current information on psychiatric diagnoses seen in older patients in a concise format.

Population aging is challenging countries around the globe to adapt their public policy responses to the new world.

Geriatric medicine is generally defined as medical care for adults aged 65 years and older.

This edited book is based on original work of authors.

Elderly Care: Current Issues and Challenges first presents an analysis of the ethical and societal issues related to the introduction of new patient and care/caregiver monitoring technologies.

Practice guidelines for management of conditions prevalent in long-term geriatric care are based, by and large, on expert consensus and rarely on controlled studies.

Nursing homes provide care to about 1.

End-of-life care, within critical care, continues to be a controversial topic.

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 cornerstone of this book is the physical activity and mobility in the elderly as an essential aspect of life.

Worldwide, human life is headed for longevity.

Maintaining good metabolic profile plays a significant role in improving the quality of life at aging.

Each species has its own characteristic aging trajectory coded by a species-specific developmental program.

As an objective of human security, it is important to understand the social system and to make more appropriate policies for people based on the bio-psycho-social viewpoint of health advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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'Warm, wise and practical' Cressida Cowell, MBEAn invaluable reference for parents of sick or hospitalised children by an experienced and eminent psychologist.

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.

After receiving the bad news of terminal illness, many told the author the first thought they had was What do we do now?

At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships.

Many times you will hear people say that they dont fear death but they do fear what they may have to endure before they reach that final passage.

This ';comfortingthoughtful' (The Washington Post) guide to maintaining a high quality of lifefrom resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breathby the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven's Door is a ';roadmap to the end that combines medical, practical, and spiritual guidance' (The Boston Globe).

Practical budget management is at the core of this book.

"e;Rationing Medical Care on the Basis of Age"e; explores this highly topical issue and presents a critical argument on the nature of the possible crisis.

This unique, concise ready reference for daily use collates for the first time the most useful, practical and simple assessment scales used in geriatric settings.

Tailoring mental illness drug treatments specifically for elderly people has been a neglected area.

This is the first book in the field to address the underlying biological abnormalities of Dementia in Alzheimer's Disease (DAD) in people with Down syndrome.

Includes colour illustrations This practical reference draws together the combined expertise of a wide range of health professionals in managing this condition.

This comprehensive book gives an up-to-date profile of all aspects of the care of older people in the community, with particular emphasis on the importance of maintaining function and independence as well as health.

Building on the success of "e;Practical Psychiatry of Old Age"e; now in its Fourth Edition, this book looks in more detail at affective disorders from a variety of perspectives.

This book explores, with great insight, the multiple lessons of living and dying.

This text consists of eleven chapters concisely summarizing general adult psychiatry in the form of notes.

Osteoporosis is the most common bone disease and is associated with pathological fractures that can lead to significant morbidity.

Osteoporosis is the most common bone disease and is associated with pathological fractures that can lead to significant morbidity.

This book provides the latest research and design-based recommendations for how to design and implement a technology training program for older adults in Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRCs).

Although books exist on the evolution of aging, this is the first book written from the perspective of again as an adaptive program.

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

Dementia represents a major public health challenge for the world with over 100 million people likely to be affected by 2050.

Dementia represents a major public health challenge for the world with over 100 million people likely to be affected by 2050.

This book focuses on four of the hallmarks of aging: aspartic acid racemization, advanced glycation end products, telomere shortening and mitochondrial mutations; describing their role in aging and diseases; and their application to age-at-death estimation in forensic sciences in greater depth, displaying the interconnecting pathways among these processes.

This clinically focused book provides the essential modalities for managing pain in older patients.

This unique volume teaches those in the medical fields about the scientific value of neuropsychology in assessing cognition, the 6th vital sign, as part of well integrated collaborative care.

Psychological, social, and spiritual care is as important as physical care at the end of life.

The field of geriatric urology continues to evolve and expand since the publication of the first edition of this book.

This practical handbook offers quick and sound advice on the many issues faced when dialyzing the older patient.

This text provides a comprehensive, state of the art review of this field and will serve as a resource for urologists, colorectal surgeons, geriatricians, and gynecologists as well as researchers interested in neuromuscular phenomena in the pelvis.

Evidence pertaining to continual violence throughout the life cycle coupled with the experience of growing old in a life permeated by intimate violence is scarce.