This new edition of the popular and market-leading Diabetes in Old Age features up-to-date and comprehensive information about the key aspects of managing older people with diabetes, predominantly type 2 diabetes.
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.
This book offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of movement disorders, an important specialty in the field of neurology, guiding readers from the phenomenology to diagnosis and management.
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.
This book provides concrete scientific basis that we can conceive the possibility of modifying or even completely canceling aging process, despite the fact that aging is commonly regarded as the result of the overall effects of many uncontrollable degenerative phenomena.
In the 7 years since the first edition of Clinical Manual of Geriatric Psychopharmacology was published, dozens of new drugs have been released, and older medications have been marketed in different formulations.
Dieser Ratgeber gibt Angehörigen und Betroffenen Orientierung: Wenn man psychisch so schwer erkrankt, dass man nicht mehr allein für die eigenen Angelegenheiten sorgen kann und einen rechtlichen Betreuer benötigt.
With a rapidly aging population throughout the world, the issue of larger percentages of older adults has repercussions for both policy and the job market.
This book offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of movement disorders, an important specialty in the field of neurology, guiding readers from the phenomenology to diagnosis and management.
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.
Extensively revised and updated to reflect the current state of knowledge in the study of aging, this Fourth Edition offers a complete profile of the aging process at all levels, from molecules and cells to demography and evolution.
This fully revised and updated second edition provides a complete introduction to aging and mental health for psychology students taking courses in aging as well as for academics and practitioners working in the field of gerontology.
Verhaltensbezogene und psychologische Symptome im Rahmen von Demenzerkrankungen (BPSD) und deren Management sind im gesamten Erkrankungsverlauf von großer Bedeutung und stellen häufig eine größere therapeutische Herausforderung dar als kognitive Symptome.
The newly retired are entering a time of life that is virtually uncharted, a time in which they are free from social expectations and, to a large extent, from obligations to others.
Focusing exclusively on the older patient with poor bone quality, this unique book presents the indications, contraindications and common techniques - as well as the risks, benefits and outcomes - for utilizing arthroplasty for the treatment of fractures in this population, sensibly divided into four thematic sections.
Durch die steigende Lebenserwartung und das Anwachsen der Gruppe älterer und hochbetagter Menschen steigt auch der Anteil derer, die an einer Multimorbidität, also mehreren chronischen Erkrankungen gleichzeitig leiden.
La "cultura geriatrica" - intesa come conoscenza e dominio dei processi di invecchiamento - non ha avuto ancora piena affermazione in campo medico-sanitario.
This new edition builds upon the foundation of the first and second editions of the handbook, volumes separated by a decade of experience in the field, in a format that is both comprehensive and fluid.
Dieser Band ist Bestandteil einer kombinierten Gedächtnis- und Psychomotorikaktivierung zur Förderung von Selbständigkeit und Wohlbefinden bei Pflegeheimbewohnern.
Hospice and Palliative Medicine and Supportive Care Flashcards is a comprehensive, evidence-based book of flashcards for clinicians caring for patients who require hospice and palliative care and supportive care.
As the United States and the rest of the world face the unprecedented challenge of aging populations, this volume draws together for the first time state-of-the-art work from the emerging field of the demography of aging.
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.