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  • Sustainable Health and Long-Term Care Solutions for an Aging Population
    Lasting healthcare for the entire population, specifically the elderly, has become a main priority in society. It is imperative to find ways to boost the longevity of healthcare services for all users. Sustainable Health and Long-Term Care Solutions for an Aging Population is a pivotal reference source featuring the latest scholarly research on issues pertinent to health cost a...
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    295,52 €

  • Optimizing Assistive Technologies for Aging Populations
    Anupam Shukla / Chandra Prakash Rathore / Yosry Morsi
    Demographics reveal that the proportion of elderly individuals in the population is growing at a significant rate. Advances in medicine have allowed populations to live longer than ever; however, ensuring that these individuals have the tools necessary to sustain a productive and happy lifestyle as they age remains a concern. Optimizing Assistive Technologies for Aging Populati...
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    289,15 €

  • Clinical Case Studies in Long-Term Care Psychiatry
    George T. Grossberg / Matthew Gibfried
    A compilation of compelling real-life cases on the psychiatric care of older adults in the long-term care setting. Cases cover the various common psychiatric disorders alongside more complex cases on psychiatric multimorbidity and psychotropic polypharmacy. Essential reading for healthcare practitioners who work regularly with older adults. ...
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    60,36 €

  • I’ve Never Been Old Before
    Marilyn Laken
    '...provides the reader with insightful guidance to ensure they arrive to ’old age’ not just prepared but ready for all that this time of life offers and requires.'-Stephen Panus, author of bestselling Walk On'My copy of the book is already underlined and dog-eared! No doubt, I will refer to it over and over again.'-Kathleen Cochran, managing director and strategic communicatio...
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    17,74 €

  • I’ve Never Been Old Before
    Marilyn Laken
    '...provides the reader with insightful guidance to ensure they arrive to ’old age’ not just prepared but ready for all that this time of life offers and requires.'-Stephen Panus, author of bestselling Walk On'My copy of the book is already underlined and dog-eared! No doubt, I will refer to it over and over again.'-Kathleen Cochran, managing director and strategic communicatio...
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    23,38 €

  • Difficulties and Challenges in Geriatric Health Management
    Adil Hamad Alharthi
    Within modern medicine, a pressing concern looms; the care and well-being of our aging population. As the number of elderly individuals seeking medical attention continues to rise, healthcare professionals, particularly internists and family medicine specialists, find themselves faced with unique challenges in the diagnosis and management of geriatric patients. The specialized ...
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    757,57 €

  • Difficulties and Challenges in Geriatric Health Management
    Adil Hamad Alharthi
    Within modern medicine, a pressing concern looms; the care and well-being of our aging population. As the number of elderly individuals seeking medical attention continues to rise, healthcare professionals, particularly internists and family medicine specialists, find themselves faced with unique challenges in the diagnosis and management of geriatric patients. The specialized ...
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    574,13 €

  • Innovations in the Care of the Elderly
    Originally published in 1984 and concentrating on the West Midlands area of the UK, this book describes the innovations that were made and all that was involved in bringing about changes in care provision for elderly people.  ...
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    57,23 €

  • Care of the Elderly Mentally Infirm
    Barbara Gray / Bernard Isaacs
    Originally published in 1979, this book explains why so many people suffer behavioural changes in later life; how this affects those around them; the services that exist to assist older people and those who work with them and how such services can be profitably used. ...
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    57,10 €

  • Health Care of the Elderly
    Tom Arie
    Originally published in 1981, this book spans medicine, psychiatry, social work and organisation of services of the elderly, written by eminent authors from several different professions. ...
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    57,04 €

  • You Are Not Alone
    Kathy Teyler Teyler Jarrett
    Part memoir and part help book, You Are Not Alone details all a caregiver for a person with Lewy Body Dementia needs to know, from symptoms to diagnosis to care for their loved one and themselves, from beginning to end of their caregiving journey. ...
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    35,72 €

  • From Loneliness to Solitude in Person-centred Health Care
    Stephen Buetow
    This innovative book provides a new conceptual analysis of loneliness - a condition associated with severe health consequences, including increased morbidity and early death. ...
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    73,65 €

  • Talking Points on Deprescribing in Hospice Care
    Deepak Shrivastava
    Deprescribing practice in hospice medicine has expanded exponentially in recent years. This book systematically addresses the groups of extremely useful medications to manage chronic disease conditions and prevent complications. ...
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    39,66 €

  • Older Mexicans and Latinos in the United States
    This book delves into the consequences of rapid population aging for Mexico and U.S. Latinos, impacting various institutions, including families, the labor force, and healthcare systems. It examines in depth the causes and consequences of the increasing prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia, especially early-onset decline in the Mexican-origin population.The book iden...
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    157,05 €

  • Geriatric Dentistry in the Age of Digital Technology
    Dachel Martínez Asanza
    Geriatric Dentistry in the Age of Digital Technology is a comprehensive guide that addresses the crucial role of dental professionals in providing specialized care for aging patients in today’s digital era. As the world’s population continues to age, it is imperative to prioritize the health promotion, prevention, and recovery of older individuals, especially concerning their o...
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    484,28 €

  • Old Age Health - Challenges and Solutions
    Sahasranam Kalpathy
    Have you ever wondered what your health will be like after ten, twenty, thirty years? You will not be younger. This is the book for you.Old Age brings changes in our bodies. How to recognize these changes?This book helps the Care givers of Elderly individuals to understand their problems.Here’s how this book will benefit you :Learn what happens to your Digestive System when you...
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    20,76 €

  • How to Face the Health Challenges while Growing Old.
    Sahasranam Kalpathy
    Do you have an elderly parent, uncle, or aunt at home? Are you aged 55 or older, then this is the book for youDo you want to live free of diseases in old age?Are you middle aged expecting to retire in the next ten years?Then this is the book for you. Are you growing old? This book explains what changes normally occur in your body as you age. This is a must buy book for Senior ...
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    18,66 €

  • Current Perspectives on Centenarians
    This book explores various aspects related to human longevity and aging beyond 100 years old. It examines all domains of health and well-being of this elite group including the current demographics, genetics and epigenetics of exceptional longevity, cardiovascular risk factors, dementia, nutrition, physical activity, African American and Hispanic centenarians, financial plannin...
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    132,60 €

  • Migration, Diversity and Inequality in Later Life
    Dora Sampaio
    This book is the first comprehensive ethnographic study of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants - return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants - from a comparative perspective. It explores the motivations, ageing experiences and aspirations of transnational ageing migrants in the context of the Portuguese islands of the Azore...
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    134,47 €

  • Challenging Assumptions Around Dementia
    Alyson Hill / Rosalie Ashworth / Sue Fyvel
    This open access book explores the expectations surrounding dementia, what it ’looks like’ and how people have been treated by others. It aims to raise awareness of the different types of dementia, and how they impact the brain, body, and lived experience, including experience of Alzheimer’s disease, Vascular Dementia, Posterior Cortical Atrophy, Frontotemporal Dementia, Semant...
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    71,35 €

  • Survival of the Unfittest
    Bernard Isaacs / Maureen Livingstone / Yvonne Neville
    Originally published in 1972, this book is an analytical account of the socio-medical tribulations suffered by Glasgow’s east-end elderly leading to referral to geriatric wards. It examines why so many old people suffer from physical, mental and social deprivation in the final years of their lives. It shows by statistical studies and illustrative case histories that the basic c...
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    53,29 €

  • Subjective Views of Aging
    This book focuses on the concept of subjective views of aging. This concept refers to the way individuals conceptualize and perceive the aging process. Social and cultural perceptions regarding older adults are incorporated and internalized into views people hold regarding their own aging process. The book contains three parts which present theoretical, empirical, and translati...
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    133,38 €

  • The Longevity Dividend
    Satya Brink
    This book offers global evidence about the increasing longevity, its consequences and its potential for societal benefits. Based on statistics, academic literature, policy initiatives and numerous country experiences, it explains the interconnected effects of a longer later life, lifelong learning and more productive societies. This larger picture shows how the future can be ma...
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    159,34 €

  • Opening up the Debate on the Aging Society
    Alejandro Klein
    This book documents, verifies and brings to life the issues and debates that are created around the aging society. It carefully offers a series of opinions that attempt to illuminate the fact that the aging society goes beyond aging and includes a series of changes in terms of family, social ties, relationships, and the way human beings perceive society. The book contributes su...
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    146,76 €

  • Acute Care Surgery in Geriatric Patients
    This comprehensive text will provide a state-of-the art review of the field of geriatric acute care surgery, reviewing new epidemiology data about risk factors for this type of trauma. Assessment of the geriatric trauma patient is unique, and this population requires special attention. Moreover, geriatric patients often suffer from mild to severe cognitive impairment, cardiovas...
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    50,81 €

  • Demenz als Störfaktor?
    Jörg Kurmann
    Vor dem Hintergrund einer alternden Gesellschaft sehen sich die Krankenhäuser nicht nur mit immer älteren Patienten, sondern auch mit einem Wandel des Krankheitspanoramas konfrontiert. Mittlerweile ist der größte Anteil aller Patienten über 65 Jahre alt und hat eine oder mehrere chronische Erkrankungen. Diese Veränderungen bedingen eine Neuausrichtung der Krankenbehandlung in d...
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    93,19 €

  • Geriatric Medicine and Healthy Aging
    Geriatric Medicine and Healthy Aging supports the idea that living a long and healthy life is considered the foremost challenge of societies worldwide. Promoting healthy aging strategies, which involves enhancing physical, mental, and social well-being in older adults, is discussed throughout the book, considering different approaches. Among a range of practical strategies for ...
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    155,76 €

  • Gerontechnology. A Clinical Perspective
    This book aims at disseminating information and knowledge in Gerontechnology, a topic that is still considered a specific area of interest for techno-experts (i.e. informatics, engineers, bio-engineers, bio-statistics, etc.) while there is a relatively low diffusion of technological expertise among clinicians and other health professionals who are involved in the care of older ...
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    48,15 €

  • GERIATRIC ADMISSION, THE
    ANUPAMA ROY CHOWDHU DERRICK CHEN WEE AW
    This is a guide book that showcases the commonest clinical problems encountered in the inpatient setting concerning elderly patients. Each chapter is based on a symptomatic theme and quizzes the reader through the evolution of a patient scenario upon hospitalisation. Engaging discussions occur after each quiz question, focusing on approaches and diagnostic and therapeutic pearl...
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    77,11 €

  • GERIATRIC ADMISSION, THE
    ANUPAMA ROY CHOWDHU DERRICK CHEN WEE AW
    This is a guide book that showcases the commonest clinical problems encountered in the inpatient setting concerning elderly patients. Each chapter is based on a symptomatic theme and quizzes the reader through the evolution of a patient scenario upon hospitalisation. Engaging discussions occur after each quiz question, focusing on approaches and diagnostic and therapeutic pearl...
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    169,67 €


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