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Geriatrics eBooks

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  • Parentrapped

    by Lou DeLena ...
    You love them. Of course you do. But they're driving you crazy! They're overly demanding, inpatient, unreasonable, self-centered and selfish, and expect you to drop everything for them at a moment's notice. And they act so juvenile!No, we're not talking about the kids. This dissertation deals with those who brought you into this world - your parents, AKA Mommy and Daddy. They've entered their ... Read more

    4,70 €

  • Your Golden Years, Your Golden Challenge

    A Practicing Physician's Prescription for Preventative Health Care from Midlife to Retirement and Beyond

    by Herman Schmid ...
    This book informs the reader of the major preventive health recommendations now practiced by the medical community. Prior to the middle of the last century medical care was primarily episodic. Patients did not see their doctor until they were acutely ill. Now, the advances in medical knowledge of disease processes and the availability of improved diagnostic techniques and treatments have focused ... Read more

    10,16 €

  • A Traveler's Guide to Geriatrica

    by Marilyn Heins ...
    Newspaper columnist and beloved pediatrician, Marilyn Heins, MD, has fashioned a pathway through the transformative senior years of life after having entered the octogenarian years, herself. Gleaned from her experiences as she navigates the changes that come with aging, A Traveler's Guide to Geriatrica is augmented with insightful yet playful illustrations by renowned political cartoonist, David ... Read more

    11,12 €

  • Geriatric Dental Medicine, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, E-Book

    Edited by Joseph M. Calabrese, Michelle M. Henshaw ...
    Series Book Volume 39-2 - The Clinics: Internal Medicine
    In this issue, guest editors bring their considerable expertise to this important topic.Provides in-depth reviews on the latest updates in the field, providing actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to ... Read more

    66,66 €

  • Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine - E-Book

    Edited by Nathan E Goldstein, Christopher D. Woodrell, R. Sean Morrison ...
    Using a practical, question-and-answer approach, Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine, 2nd Edition, helps you provide optimal care for patients and families who are dealing with serious illness. This unique reference focuses on patient and family/caregiver-centered care, highlighting the benefits of palliative care and best practices for delivery. The highly practical, user-friendly ... Read more

    78,32 €

  • Dementia Care Mapping (DCM)

    Evaluation und Anwendung im deutschsprachigen Raum

    Edited by Riesner ...
    Dementia Care Mapping (DCM) gehört zu den bekanntesten Evaluationsintrumenten für die Lebensqualität von Menschen mit Demenz. Es ist ein zentrales Arbeitsmittel person-zentrierter Pflege. Das vom 'Who is who' der deutschsprachigen DCM-Szene verfasste Werk beschreibt die aktuelle Entwicklung, Anwendungen und Perspektiven von DCM im deutschsprachigen Raum. Es zeigt anschaulich den 'Fussabdruck', den ... Read more

    26,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geriatric Nephrology

    The medical, psychosocial, nursing, financial and ethical issues of treating end-stage renal disease in the elderly

    Edited by Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The year was 1943. As a third-year medical student at Stanford, I was about to witness the beginning of a medical miracle. Dr. Arthur Bloomfield, Professor of Medicine, had selected my patient, a middle aged man, who was dying of acute pneumococcal pneumonia, as one of the first patients to receive miniscule doses (by today's standards) of his meagre supply of a new drug - penicillin. The patient ... Read more

    190,79 €

  • Fractures in the Elderly

    A Guide to Practical Management

    Edited by Mary Ann Keenan, Nader M Hebela, Robert J. Pignolo ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Fractures in the Elderly: A Guide to Practical Management provides geriatricians and other medical specialists who provide care for older adults with the vital guidance and most current data and opinions regarding the treatment of elderly patients who sustain a variety of fractures. It also provides orthopedic surgeons with the necessary information and most current data and opinions regarding ... Read more

    213,16 €

  • Predictive Health

    How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years

    by Kenneth L. Brigham, Michael ME Johns ...
    Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget -- nearly 175 billion -- is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments. Such efforts betray a fundamental flaw in how we think about healthcare: we squander resources on hopeless situations, ... Read more

    13,99 €

  • 100 Plus

    How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and

    by Sonia Arrison ...
    Humanity is on the cusp of an exciting longevity revolution. The first person to live to 150 years has probably already been born.What will your life look like when you live to be over 100? Will you be healthy? Will your marriage need a sunset clause? How long will you have to work? Will you finish one career at sixty-five only to go back to school to learn a new one? And then, will you be happily ... Read more

    Was 10,99 € Now 9,49 €

  • Handbook on the Neuropsychology of Aging and Dementia

    Edited by Lisa D. Ravdin, Heather L. Katzen ...
    Series series Clinical Handbooks in Neuropsychology
    With the aging of the baby boomers and medical advances that promote longevity, older adults are rapidly becoming the fastest growing segment of the population. As the population ages, so does the incidence of age related disorders. Many predict that 15% - 20% of the baby-boomer generation will develop some form of cognitive decline over the course of their lifetime, with estimates escalating to ... Read more

    371,10 €

  • Parkinson's Disease and Nonmotor Dysfunction

    Edited by Ronald F. Pfeiffer, ivan Bodis-Wollner ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The first edition of Parkinson’s Disease and Nonmotor Dysfunction was published in 2005 to provide a source of detailed information that could be readily accessed by the practicing physician. The widely praised first edition described and explained these nonmotor features that had at that point received insufficient attention both in the medical and in the lay literature. Since the publication of ... Read more

    190,79 €

  • Gedächtnisstörungen

    Diagnostik und Rehabilitation

    Edited by Thorsten Bartsch, Peter Falkai ...
    Series series Medicine (German Language)
    Als Folge der Überalterung unserer Gesellschaft sind Gedächtnisstörungen in den vergangenen Jahren exponentiell gestiegen und werden weiter ansteigen. Sie treten nicht nur in Form von Demenzen auf, sondern auch im Rahmen von normalen Altersvorgängen. Doch wann liegt eine Gedächtnisstörung vor? Wie kann eine Diagnose gestellt werden? Wie sind Gedächtnisstörungen zu behandeln?Diese und andere Fragen ... Read more

    77,58 €

  • Handbook of Pain Relief in Older Adults

    An Evidence-Based Approach

    Edited by F. Michael Gloth, III ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The second edition of the Handbook of Pain Relief in Older Adults: An Evidence-Based Approach expands on the first edition by providing a number of timely new features. Most important of these are the revised recommendations from the American Geriatrics Society on prescribing that reflect the many new agents available since the last guidelines were released in 2001. Additionally, concepts such as ... Read more

    85,85 €

  • Vidas asiladas

    além dos muros da velhice

    by Daniel Lima Azevedo ...
    Abrigos, casas de repouso, clínicas geriátricas, instituições de longa permanência: são muitos os nomes para designar os asilos para pessoas idosas – moradias compartilhadas que assumem relevância crescente no século XXI. Mas o que realmente acontece no seu interior? Quem são os personagens que ocupam esses espaços e que noções regem os cuidados dos residentes? Vidas Asiladas é um passaporte para ... Read more

    9,49 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fewer Pills, More Paws

    Caring for Your Aging Parents and Lessons from Our Pets

    by David Lee ...
    "A thoughtful and creatively woven exploration of neuroscience, pharmacology, and insights drawn from our relationships with pets... clear and accessible, making complex concepts easy to grasp. Provides practical strategies and mindset shifts to ease challenges for all involved."-Teepa Snow, Founder of Positive Approach to Care®Are you managing a loved one's healthcare-or is it managing you ... Read more

    9,11 €

  • Principles and Practice of Geriatric Psychiatry

    by Marc E. Agronin, Gabe J. Maletta ...
    Many elderly patients suffer from psychiatric conditions that result from--or are made worse by--existing medical conditions. This new edition integrates clinical expertise needed to evaluate and treat psychiatric, medical and neurologic disorders in the older patient. Both scientific foundations of and clinical approaches to psychiatric disease are discussed by a range of experts who rely on ... Read more

    204,89 €

  • Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, Populations, Second Edition

    by Talmadge E. King, Margaret B. Wheeler, Alicia Fernandez, Dean Schillinger, Andrew B. Bindman, Kevin Grumbach, Teresa J. Villela ...
    The leading reference and text on the increasingly relevant and important topic of caring for underserved patients and those with highly unique health requirementsA Doody’s Core Title for 2019!The timely publication of Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice and Populations, Second Edition is designed to clarify current issues and instruct you in best ... Read more

    70,48 €

  • Geriatric Ophthalmology

    A Competency-based Approach

    Edited by Hilary A. Beaver, Andrew G. Lee ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Geriatric patients have unique responses to treatment and disease, often harboring co-morbidities that can impact evaluation, treatment, and prognosis, which can require specialized expertise or experience. Geriatric Ophthalmology, Second Edition draws upon the successful first edition by applying a competency-based approach to these patients, improving awareness, increasing understanding, and ... Read more

    62,00 €

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Successful Aging

    Edited by Rocío Fernández-Ballesteros, Athanase Benetos, Jean-Marie Robine ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Psychology
    Recent studies show that more people than ever before are reaching old age in better health and enjoying that health for a longer time. This Handbook outlines the latest discoveries in the study of aging from bio-medicine, psychology, and socio-demography. It treats the study of aging as a multidisciplinary scientific subject, since it requires the interplay of broad disciplines, while offering ... Read more

    64,97 €

  • Unaging

    The Four Factors that Impact How You Age

    by Robert P. Friedland ...
    Aging is a subject of concern to everyone, but is widely misunderstood. If we view it as inevitable, we miss the fact that not everyone is able to grow to an old age. Realization of this reality helps us to understand that aging presents a wonderful opportunity - an opportunity to make choices about how we live which can enhance the aging process and offer a chance to live to our potential. This ... Read more

    18,33 €

  • Du wirst auch mal alt!

    Ein Leben mit Demenz

    by Corinna Schonert ...
    Demenz ist ein Thema, mit dem wir sicher im Laufe unseres Lebens einmal konfrontiert werden. In der heutigen Zeit stellt es aber immer noch ein Tabuthema dar, leider. In diesem Buch gebe ich dir einen kleinen Einblick in das Leben demenzerkrankter Menschen, erkläre die einzelnen Phasen der Krankheit und veranschauliche das Verhalten der Betroffenen in Form von Gedichten. Sachthemen habe ich leicht ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • Aging and Health - A Systems Biology Perspective

    by Tamàs Fülöp ...
    Aging is a major risk factor for chronic diseases, which in turn can provide information about the aging of a biological system. This publication serves as an introduction to systems biology and its application to biological aging. Key pathways and processes that impinge on aging are reviewed, and how they contribute to health and disease during aging is discussed. The evolution of this situation ... Read more

    Free

  • Stepping Stones to Living Well with Dysphagia

    72nd Nestlé Nutrition Institute Workshop, Barcelona, May 2011

    Edited by J. Cichero, P. Clavé ...
    Oropharyngeal dysphagia is a major complaint among many patients suffering from neurological diseases as well as in the elderly. Its severity ranges from moderate difficulty to complete inability to swallow, and it may give rise to clinically relevant complications such as aspiration pneumonia, malnutrition and/or dehydration, impaired quality of life, and death. However, despite its high ... Read more

    33,59 €