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  • Challenging Cases in Geriatric Medicine
    Francis J A Collin / Henry J Woodford
    Geriatric medicine is challenging - people present with multiple problems at the same time, and case studies provide a good way to discuss this complexity. This book describes 30 cases of older people with frailty presenting to acute medical services. ...
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    100,81 €

  • Living Well with Parkinson’s
    Angeliki Bogosian
    This accessible guide offers a roadmap to not only managing the symptoms but also thriving with Parkinson’s, allowing individuals and their care partners to develop a comprehensive approach to living well with Parkinson’s, emphasising proactive engagement with healthcare professionals, emotional resilience, and achievable goals. ...
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    38,48 €

  • 9 Essentials for Quality Health Outcomes in Older and High-Risk Patients
    Robert S. Vaidya
    Healthcare systems today are facing an impending crisis due to increasing numbers of aging and high-risk patients, rising costs, and the challenge of achieving meaningful, lasting patient outcomes. This book provides a fresh perspective on managing complex patients through an interprofessional team-based approach. ...
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    55,98 €

  • Drugs, Ageing and Society
    Bruce Burns / Chris Phillipson
    During the 1970s and 1980s prescription and over-the-counter drugs had come to play a major role in the health care of older people. Originally published in 1986, this book reviews the historical background to this development and explores its social and pharmacological implications. ...
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    55,93 €

  • Geriatrics, Lifestyle Medicine and Healthy Aging
    Susan M. Friedman
    Geriatrics, Lifestyle Medicine and Healthy Aging: A Practical Guide is a book for those interested in promoting healthy aging through lifestyle approaches. Readers gain an understanding of how lifestyle medicine and geriatrics can work together to provide a holistic approach that fosters healthy aging throughout life. ...
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    98,10 €

  • Reversible Causes of Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
    This pioneering book covers a broad range of reversible causes of cognitive decline and dementia, ranging from the basic neuroscience of the condition to clinical manifestations, and practice treatment implications. ...
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    70,05 €

  • 36-Hour Day
    Nancy L Mace / Peter V Rabins
    With over 4 million copies sold, the best-selling guide to understanding and caring for people with dementia is now redesigned, revised, and updated!For 40 years, The 36-Hour Day has been the leading work on the care of people with dementia and their family members. Written by experts with decades of experience caring for individuals with memory loss, Alzheimer disease, and ot...
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    30,42 €

  • Nutrición en la persona mayor
    Pamela Ayamamani Torres / Tania Tello Rodríguez / Toshio Yazawa Chacón
    El envejecimiento poblacional representa uno de los mayores desafíos de la medicina contemporánea. Dentro de este contexto, la nutrición geriátrica juega un papel crucial como factor determinante para la salud, la capacidad funcional, la calidad de vida y la supervivencia de las personas mayores.Este libro está organizado en seis bloques temáticos, los cuales abarcan desde los ...
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    62,35 €

  • Chair Yoga for Seniors
    Movement Freedom Publications
    Struggling with stiff joints, poor balance, or weakness? This doctor-designed chair yoga book helps you move again-safely and effectively-at the right level for your body.Tired of so-called 'senior-friendly' yoga books that ignore age-related issues like joint replacements, arthritis, or back pain?If you’re dealing with mobility loss, chronic stiffness, or are recovering from j...
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    15,31 €

  • Epilepsy in Other Brain Diseases
    Johan Zelano
    Studies have demonstrated that a substantial proportion of patients with other brain diseases like stroke, traumatic brain injury, and dementia will develop epilepsy. This text provides a clear and concise guide to the epidemiology and clinical research on epilepsy as it occurs in the context of other brain diseases. ...
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    91,24 €

  • Sunset Angels
    Ellen G Morgan
    You’ve just been hired as a new hospice RN case manager. Now, you might be wondering what the job is all about.Hospice nursing is a deeply meaningful and rewarding profession but one that is uniquely challenging. There are many unknowns you are not aware of yet. Fortunately, this resource can take out the guesswork so you can confidently navigate your new position.This book is ...
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    13,77 €

  • 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 €

  • Communication in Palliative Care
    Janet Dunphy
    This practical, thought-provoking guide provides the unemotional, clear, and accurate advice necessary for communicating with patients in a palliative care setting - a pivotal aspect of being a palliative care expert that is so difficult to quantify and teach. ...
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    67,62 €

  • 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 €

  • Retirement Activity Book for the Newly Retired
    Pippa Page
    The ultimate retirement activity book for men and women.Congratulations on your well-deserved retirement! It’s time to embark on a new adventure filled with relaxation, fun and mental stimulation. Celebrate your newfound freedom and embrace your golden years with this perfect companion for your retirement journey, offering a delightful mix of fun trivia, brain-teasing challenge...
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    13,84 €

  • 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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    61,30 €

  • 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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    61,15 €

  • 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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    77,71 €

  • 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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    46,47 €

  • (Re)designing the Continuum of Care for Older Adults
    This book broadens the visioning on new care environments that are designed to be inclusive, progressive, and convergent with the needs of an aging population. The contents cover a range of long-term care (LTC) settings in a single collection to address the needs of a wide audience.Due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, rethinking the spatial design of care facilities in order to...
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    87,43 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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. ...
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    57,34 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €