Geriatric medicine

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.

Increasingly, we hear of more and more elders falling victim to financial exploitation.

Acute Care for Elders (ACE) is a model of care designed to improve functional outcomes and to improve the processes for the care of older patients.

This is the new and fully revised third edition of the well-received text that is the benchmark book in the field of nutrition and aging.

Meeting the Needs of Older Adults with Serious Illness: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of Health Care Reform provides an introduction to the principles of palliative care; describes current models of delivering palliative care across care settings, and examines opportunities in the setting of healthcare policy reform for palliative care to improve outcomes for patients, families and healthcare institutions.

This book synthesizes the major research advances in molecular, biochemical and translational aspects of aging and heart failure over the last four decades and addresses future directions in management and drug discovery.

Since the first edition of this book was published there have been considerable changes in continuing care.

As our population continues to age, health professionals are being called on to care for an ever-increasing number of elderly patients.

Cindy Marks is a hospice nurse who has unfortunately witnessed heartbreaking fear and desperation in her patients and family members as they attempt to come to grips with death.

Chronic pain is a daily fact of life for many elderly people.

The incidence of stroke increases with age and with the increase in the life expectancy, the older people will contribute to a large portion of those afflicted with stroke.

This book is a thorough revision of one of the most comprehensive reference volumes for persons working in the area of aging and mental health.

A manual to providing nursing care during the functional decline of Alzheimer's patients, emphasizing how to evaluate the patients' competence at each stage and allow them to take as much care of themselves as possible.

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.

A manual to providing nursing care during the functional decline of Alzheimer's patients, emphasizing how to evaluate the patients' competence at each stage and allow them to take as much care of themselves as possible.

In this new color handbook, the authors deal systematically with those skin conditions that are particular to or more common in the elderly covering testing, diagnosis and treatment options.

Geriatric Rehabilitation addresses the fact that this is an age in which individuals have increasing longevity, better health care, education and expectations of health care which present new, increasing and even radical challenges to health care providers.

Death comes for us all, and the desire to ease into that death is as ancient as humankind.

Throughout my clinical training and practice, I have been surprised by the number of times that sexual issues have emerged as an unexpectedly central feature in my work with older adults.

Aging is one of the most serious and costly health problems in the Western world.

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.

It has been called the plague of the 21st century for its dramatic increase in numbers and the challenge it poses to health care.

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.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on older adults with mental illness, and Geriatric Mental Health Care was conceived in response.

While learning about ways to bring some fun into the lives of those who are long-term confined to home or hospital, the reader discovers that the book is really about hope, dignity, and love.