Geriatrics category: 483 books

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Skin Diseases in the Elderly

A Color Handbook

by Colby Evans, Whitney High
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2011

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. Given ageing populations the need for such a book is urgent. More and more elderly patients will seek care for a variety of skin conditions, ranging from eczem
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The Johns Hopkins Guide to Diabetes

For Patients and Families

by Christopher D. Saudek, MD, Richard R. Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014

Living with diabetes is a balancing act of monitoring blood glucose, food intake, and medication. It makes sense that individuals who have diabetes do best when they understand their condition and how to control it. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Diabetes is a comprehensive and easy-to-read guide...
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Resilience in Aging

Concepts, Research, and Outcomes

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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010

The many significant technological and medical advances of the 21st century cannot overcome the escalating risk posed to older adults by such stressors as pain, weakness, fatigue, depression, anxiety, memory and other cognitive deficits, hearing loss, visual impairment, isolation, marginalization,...
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Osteoporosis in Older Persons

Advances in Pathophysiology and Therapeutic Approaches

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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016

This new edition includes the most up-to-date information about the pathophysiology and new therapeutic alternatives for osteoporosis of advanced age. It is written by investigators (clinicians and basic scientists) in the field of aging bone research. It was just recently that a new syndrome,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013

Broad in scope and with global appeal The Oxford Textbook of Old Age Psychiatry, second edition is the definitive resource on old age psychiatry. It comprehensively provides the latest knowledge on the science and practice of treating later life mental disorders, focusing on the health and social...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010

I was looking at Mrs T – all 45 kilos of her – with somewhat puzzled thoughts. I had prescribed her capecitabine at very prudent doses, in view of her 91-year-old kidneys and physiology. She had reduced my treatment even further, “because it was making her tired.” As a result, she was taking...
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by Richard I Lindley
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017

Stroke care has been revolutionised by better prevention, treatment, and more widely available rehabilitation. Nonetheless, stroke remains the second most common cause of death worldwide. This fully-updated new edition provides clear facts and practical advice as to why strokes occur and how they...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Public health and antiseptic measures, vaccination and antibiotics, have all contributed to the reduction in the incidence and impact of diseases due to infections in younger age groups. Unfortunately, however, infections remain a very important cause of both morbidity and mortality in the elderly....
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by Jeremy W. Grabbe
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017

According to the National Institute of Aging there are more than half a billion people over the age of 65 across the globe. This has led to a need for medical and psychiatric care on a scale unprecedented in history. In light of this increase in the global elderly population, the field of geriatric medicine...
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Osteoporosis

A Lifecourse Epidemiology Approach to Skeletal Health

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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2018

This is the first book to document comprehensively the ‘state of the art’ in the lifecourse epidemiology of osteoporosis. In detailed chapters, expert contributors describe the current and projected future burden of disease, developments in the understanding of risk factors for osteoporosis from...
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by George M. Sternberg, Dr Simon Flexner
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017

“It has been by imitating nature's methods and by augmentation of the natural forces of defense, that good has been achieved..." - Common observations early indicated that individuals of all animal species, and of the human species especially, were very unequally subject to disease....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2008

Aging research on the human eyes crosses all areas of ophthalmology and also relies upon biological, morphological, physiological, and biochemical tools for its study. This book reviews all aspects of human eye aging. In addition to descriptions of age-related changes in almost all the structures...
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Surviving Dementia

A Clinical and Personal Perspective

by Carol W. Berman
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016

This text approaches the care of dementia patients via the experience of a psychiatrist as well as a caregiver, offering a holistic approach to care that is unlike any other book in the market. Laced with her experiences from both her professional and personal life, Huffington Post columnist and psychiatrist...
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by Sidney S. Braman, MD, Gwen S. Skloot
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017

This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Drs. Sidney S. Braman and Gwen S. Skloot, is devoted to Pulmonary Disease in the Aging Patient. Articles in this issue include: The Effects of Aging on Lung Structure and Function; Immunosenescence and the Lungs; Epidemiology of Lung Disease...
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