Geriatrics category: 483 books

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Developing Drug Products in an Aging Society

From Concept to Prescribing

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Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016

This book aims to address the major aspects of future drug product development and therapy for older adults, giving practical guidance for the rational product and clinical development and prescribing of drug products to this ever growing segment of the population. With authors coming from key...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

This book aims to provide an up-to-date review of the literature in each of the major areas relating to the management of older urological cancer patients, and makes recommendations for best practice and future research. The authors come from a broad geographic spread including the UK, mainland Europe and North America to ensure a worldwide relevance.
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Whole Person Care

A New Paradigm for the 21st Century

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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011

A ground-breaking new volume and the first of its kind to concisely outline and explicate the emerging field of whole person care process, Whole Person Care: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century organizes the disparate strains of literature on the topic. It does so by clarifying the concept of 'whole...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Most patients in developed nations with medical problems requiring hospital care are elderly. Increasingly the dividing line between general internal medi­ cine and acute geriatric medicine is becoming more blurred. It is, nevertheless, apparent that some elderly patients on medical or sub-specialty...
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by A. Martin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The fact that there are special problems in the care of the elderly in the community is ample justification for writing a separate volume on the subject. The knowledge that there are increasing numbers of older people in virtually every country in the world makes it all the more important that the...
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Medication Management in Older Adults

A Concise Guide for Clinicians

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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2010

Medication use is the predominant form of health intervention in our society. And as we age, the likelihood of medication use increases dramatically, with more than 80 percent of those over age 65 using one or more medications. Along with that, the potential for medication errors also increases. Indeed...
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Geriatric Ophthalmology

A Competency-based Approach

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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2010

As the Baby Boom generation ages, an increased need for geriatric specialty care becomes particularly important. This shift will especially affect ophthalmology, as the occurrence of common visual disorders such as cataracts, macular degeneration, glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy increases with age....
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Forever Young

Health & Spiritual Series

by Dr. Sukhraj S. Dhillon
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2018

"Forever Young' isn't just about adding years to your life or for seniors only. It's about functioning at peak capacity throughout life, feeling great, and being able to do things that make life worth living. It's about being biologically or functionally young, regardless of your chronological...
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by Eric Pfeiffer
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013

For anyone who is approaching a 65th birthday with trepidation, this valuable book offers heartening advice on navigating the later years of life. Dr. Eric Pfeiffer, who for thirty years has cared for—and learned from—elderly people, addresses with compassion and deep understanding the multitude...
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by Talmadge E. King, Margaret B. Wheeler, Alicia Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016

The leading reference and text on the increasingly relevant and important topic of caring for underserved patients and those with highly unique health requirements A Doody’s Core Title for 2019! The timely publication of Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles,...
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Ethics, Law, and Aging Review, Volume 7

Liability Issues and Risk Management in Caring for Older Persons

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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2001

Health care and human service professionals often experience anxiety about potential adverse legal repercussions for actions taken or not taken in the course of caring for patients or clients. In this volume, professionally distinguished and diverse authors discuss both the real and perceived...
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Health Care of the Older Adult

An Australian and New Zealand Nursing Perspective

by Peter Brown
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

The growing number of older adults in Australia and New Zealand makes an understanding of their health needs and problems of critical importance to all nurses who work with them, both in specialty facilities and in other health facilities and services that have a large clientele who are ageing. Health...
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Ethnogeriatrics

Healthcare Needs of Diverse Populations

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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016

This volume is divided into five parts and fifteen chapters that address these topics by examining ethnogeriatric foundations, research issues, clinical care in ethnogeriatrics, education and policy. Expertly written chapters, by practicing geriatricians, gerontologists, clinician researchers and...
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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Healthcare

A Clinical Guide to Preventive, Primary, and Specialist Care

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Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016

Written by experienced clinicians and edited by Vanderbilt Program for LGBTI Health faculty, this book contains up-to-date expertise from physicians renowned for their work in LGBT health. This important text fills an informational void about the practical health needs of LGBT patients in both the...
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