Geriatrics category: 483 books
Capacity Assessment and the Law
Problems and Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This book discusses theoretical issues, standards, and professional considerations arising when legal and health practitioners undertake legal capacity assessments in the context of wills, enduring powers of attorney and advance health directives. The potential loss of cognition can erode autonomy...
The Structure of Healthy Life Determinants
Lessons from the Japanese Aging Cohort Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
This book is the first one to examine the cause and effect of elderly people’s healthy life expectancy, providing models that are easy to understand. The novel point is the success achieved in constructing a single structural model of cause and effect of healthy life expectancy. In the final models...
Successful Aging
Strategies for Healthy Living
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
There is a near-universal folk saying that everyone wishes to live a good long life, but no one wishes for old age. More contemporarily, the rock and roll band, Little Feat, sang, "You know that you're over the hill when your mind's making promises your body can't fill. " This book is about...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Family Caregiving in the New Normal discusses how the drastic economic changes that have occurred over the past few years have precipitated a new conversation on how family care for older adults will evolve in the future.
This text summarizes the challenges and potential solutions scientists,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Guide to Fitness After Fifty presents basic and applied research data, authoritative advice and tested techniques for professional workers who want to learn more about physical exercise, fitness and health for aging people and for all who seek to become more physically and mentally fit. The editors...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book focuses on the three most important aspects of ageing research: nutrition, physical exercise and epigenetics. The contributors discuss ways that age-related epigenetic imprints such as DNA methylation and histone acetylation are modified by these two interventions. The emphasis on epigenetics...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
End-of-life issues in cardiology are becoming increasingly important in the management of patients in the cardiac unit, but there is frequently a lack of understanding regarding their impact on cardiology practice. The cardiac unit is increasingly becoming the location whereby a number of key clinical...
Natural Hormone Balance for Women
Look Younger, Feel Stronger, and Live Life with Exuberance
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2001
A pioneering gynecologist and antiaging specialist with a successful Beverly Hills practice, Dr. Uzzi Reiss shows the way for women who want to turn back the effects of time through natural hormone therapy, but who wonder: is it safe? Does it work? Is hormone therapy right for me?
Natural Hormone...
Toward Post Ageing
Technology in an Ageing Society
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
This book examines the emergent and expanding role of technologies that hold both promise and possible peril for transforming the ageing process in this century. It discusses the points and counterpoints of technological advances that would influence a reconstruction of what it means to age when embedded...
Geriatric Depression
A Clinical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Written for a broad range of mental health professionals, this book explains why depression can be challenging to treat in older adults and describes the most effective interventions. Noted geriatric psychiatrist Gary J. Kennedy draws on extensive clinical experience and research to present current...
Brain Longevity
The Breakthrough Medical Program that Improves Your Mind and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
In the tradition of Andrew Weil's bestseller Spontaneous Healing, and aimed at the 78 million baby boomers hitting the "memory barrier", this is a physician's breakthrough medical program for the brain designed to diminish the effect of memory impairment caused by stress, aging, and Alzheimer's...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2003
For many people growing old means facing one or more chronic diseases. Successful Aging and Adaptation with Chronic Diseases reviews, coalesces, and expands what we know about how older adults successfully experience the aging process and how they feel about and live with chronic illnesses.
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The Moral Challenge of Alzheimer Disease
Ethical Issues from Diagnosis to Dying
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Society today, writes Stephen Post, is "hypercognitive": it places inordinate emphasis on people's powers of rational thinking and memory. Thus, Alzheimer disease and other dementias, which over an extended period incrementally rob patients of exactly those functions, raise many dilemmas....
Alzheimer's Disease
The Complete Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
A guide for caregivers and sufferers coping with Alzheimer’s.
Alzheimer’s disease is a reality in millions of lives and a serious concern for seniors and their loved ones. In developed countries where people are living longer than ever before, the incidence of Alzheimer’s is reaching...