Geriatrics category: 483 books
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
This book provides the first comprehensive overview of a new scientific discipline termed Geroscience. Geroscience examines the molecular and cellular mechanisms that might explain why aging is the main risk factor for most chronic diseases affecting the elderly population. Over the past few decades,...
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Aging
Challenges in Research, Practice, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The graying of the U.S. population draws increasing focus to historically unattended segments of society, including sexual and gender minorities. In this first comprehensive volume to address the challenges of aging in the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and intersex populations, this text presents...
Health, Illness, and Optimal Aging, Second Edition
Biological and Psychosocial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
"Aldwin and Gilmer have supplied an interesting textual model for examining health, illness, and aging. Their homogenized approach to aging research is refreshing and insightful."--Anthropology and Aging Quarterly
"Clearly written at a level for college students, this is an excellent...
Caregiving Contexts
Cultural, Familial, and Societal Implications
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2007
"This volume represents a major step forward in the literature by placing its focus squarely on the caregiving context, its dimensions and how it shapes the process and outcomes of family care. The chapters locate care within the family, rather than a single individual....The family, in turn,...
A Loving Approach to Dementia Care
Making Meaningful Connections with the Person Who Has Alzheimer's Disease or Other Dementia or Memory Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Caring for someone with dementia means devotedly and patiently doing a hundred little things each day. Few care providers are trained to meet the challenges of dementia, however—and that is where A Loving Approach to Dementia Care can help. The book offers practical, compassionate advice on overcoming...
Improving Our Response to Older Adults with Substance Use, Mental Health and Gambling Problems
A Guide for Supervisors, Managers and Clinical Staff
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Part of the CAMH Healthy Aging Project, Improving Our Response provides the information, tools and guidance that service providers need to work more effectively with older adults who may have substance use, mental health or gambling problems.
This comprehensive resource includes:
an...
Aging is a Group-Selected Adaptation
Theory, Evidence, and Medical Implications
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017
Although books exist on the evolution of aging, this is the first book written from the perspective of again as an adaptive program. It offers an insight into the implications of research on aging genetics, The author proposes the Demographic Theory of Senescence, whereby aging has been affirmatively...
by Laurence D. Mueller, Casandra L. Rauser, Michael R. Rose
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2011
Does Aging Stop? reveals the most paradoxical finding of recent aging research: the cessation of demographic aging. The authors show that aging stops at the level of the individual organism, and explain why evolution allows this. The implications of this counter-intuitive conclusion are profound,...
Complementary and Alternative Therapies and the Aging Population
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
The major objective of this book is to review in detail health problems occurring with significant frequency in aging adults which are proposed to be treated or ameliorated using nutriceuticals as foods and dietary supplements as well as other complementary and alternative therapies. Chapters primarily...
Exercise for Aging Adults
A Guide for Practitioners
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
This book translates the new findings in exercise research for the elderly for busy practitioners, trainees, students and administrators. This book provides practical strategies that can be implemented immediately in the common settings in which practitioners care for adults. The format includes key...
Dementia Care
An Evidence-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
This book provides an overview of the demographic, clinical, and psychosocial context of dementia care. With its focus on patient and family perspectives, this book describes evidence-based approaches towards prevention, detection, and treatment of dementia that is like any other book. The text presents...
Elder Abuse
Research, Practice and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2017
This book provides a global comprehensive and systematic state-of-the review of this field that fills the gaps between research, practice, and policy. The book addresses the epidemiology of the issue and the global prevalence of elder abuse in both developed and developing countries, which synthesizes...
Geriatric Home-Based Medical Care
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
This book is a practical reference for any clinician who has struggled to care for an older adult in a home setting. The volume is written by experts in the field who describe fundamental principles and clinical approaches of geriatric home-based care and their application to specific diseases and...
Aging and Heart Failure
Mechanisms and Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
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. It presents clinical issues and molecular mechanisms related to heart failure,...