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Annual Review of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Volume 22, 2002: Economic Outcomes in Later Life: Public Policy, Health and Cumulative Advantage
ISBN: 9780826114495 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Leading scholars focus on the economics of aging, with a particular emphasis on the economic future of the baby boom generation. Key themes include the influence of early advantages on later-life economic outcomes (the cumulative advantage/cumulative disadvantage hypothesis); the relationship between inequalities in economic status and inequalities in health status and access to health care; and the consequences of societal choices concerning retirement income systems and policies for financing acute and long-term health care. Contributors include Angela O'Rand, Edward Wolf, Edward... Leading scholars focus on the economics of aging, with a particular emphasis on the economic future of the baby boom generation. Key themes include... |
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Residential Choices and Experiences of Older Adults: Pathways to Life Quality
ISBN: 9780826119544 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on the Pathways to Life Quality longitudinal research study, this book explores the ways in which older adults' residential choices impact their health and well-being. The study examines the factors associated with life quality for persons living on their own in the local community, as well as those in various housing arrangements such as a continuing care retirement facility, adult home, income-subsidized housing, and senior apartments. Topics include plans and adjustment to moving; role identities; social relationships, participation, and integration; health and activity... Based on the Pathways to Life Quality longitudinal research study, this book explores the ways in which older adults' residential choices im... |
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407,23 |
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Successful Aging and Adaptation with Chronic Diseases
ISBN: 9780826119759 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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.Questions considered include: How do older adults approach and deal with everyday-life when affected by multiple health problems? What kind of impact do they feel diseases have on their successful aging? How do existent models and theories of coping address these issues? Presenting research funded by the...
For many people growing old means facing one or more chronic diseases. Successful Aging and Adaptation with Chronic Diseases reviews, coalesces, and e...
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365,99 |
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Healthy Longevity in China: Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions
ISBN: 9781402067518 / Angielski / Twarda / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Key research in the world s largest aging population in China has fed into this important new work, which aims to answer questions critical to older people worldwide. These include: is the period of disability compressing or expanding with increasing life expectancy and what factors are associated with these trends in the recent decades? And is it possible to realize morbidity compression with a prolongation of the life span in the future? Essential reading for gerontologists. "Key research in the world s largest aging population in China has fed into this important new work, which aims to answer questions critical to olde... |
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603,81 |
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The Dependent Elderly
ISBN: 9780521061254 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This thoughtful and compassionate account addresses some of the difficult ethical and medical issues raised in the provision of health care for the dependent elderly patient. Care of the dependent elderly is subject to conflicting priorities arising from the demands of patients, their relatives, the fair allocation of medical and financial resources, and the medical ethos to prolong life. A distinguished team of contributors, selected from the fields of medicine, philosophy, ethics, and law, discuss and critically evaluate these issues. This volume will provide a focus for further debate and...
This thoughtful and compassionate account addresses some of the difficult ethical and medical issues raised in the provision of health care for the de...
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265,92 |
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Wound Healing and Ulcers of the Skin: Diagnosis and Therapy - The Practical Approach
ISBN: 9783540212751 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. - Not only written by experts but the content of each of the chapters has also been peer-reviewed. - Presents a step-by-step approach to the treatment of chronic wounds. - For dermatologists, but also many other medical disciplines such as general practitioners and family physicians who also treat chronic wounds. - Not only written by experts but the content of each of the chapters has also been peer-reviewed. - Presents a step-by-step approach to the... |
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Re-Evaluating Residential Care
ISBN: 9780335193929 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. If most older people want to remain in their own homes, then why does residential care persist? The authors set out to answer this pressing question. They offer readers a comprehensive review of the history of residential care, its provision, practice and an analysis of its future role.
If most older people want to remain in their own homes, then why does residential care persist? The authors set out to answer this pressing question. ...
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261,12 |
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Assessing the Nursing and Care Needs of Older Adults: A Patient-Centred Approach
ISBN: 9781857757187 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Health resources are becoming increasingly constrained. So it is essential that professionals, and the public, recognise the need to work together in establishing local priorities and collaborate in their implementation. Priority Setting and The Public challenges many widely accepted beliefs and perceptions. It links together academic literature, critical overviews of methods and approaches with practical applications and original research. It shows the different approaches to engaging the public, challenges and how progress can be achieved. A wide number of methods, from a range of...
Health resources are becoming increasingly constrained. So it is essential that professionals, and the public, recognise the need to work together in ...
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Practical Budget Management in Health and Social Care
ISBN: 9781846191008 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Practical budget management is at the core of this book. As well as giving an insight into the way budgets behave in certain circumstances and what can be done about it, the book also deals with practical steps the budget and resource manager can take to eliminate waste and reduce opportunities for fraud and collusion. Better budget management means that the organisation can concentrate greater resources on matters that will significantly enhance patient and client care. The book identifies the day-to-day issues that affect managers in health and social services, and provides advice and a...
Practical budget management is at the core of this book. As well as giving an insight into the way budgets behave in certain circumstances and what ca...
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176,27 |
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International Handbook of Population Aging
ISBN: 9781402083556 / Angielski / Twarda / 769 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peter Uhlenberg The classic handbook of population, The Study of Pop- by the beginning of the twenty-first century and p- ulation edited by Philip Hauser and Otis Dudley Dun- jections show that by 2035 there will be twice as many can, was published in 1959. As described on the dust over age 65 as under age 15. In Italy and in Japan, jacket, this book was ..".an encyclopedic summary of where extraordinarily low fertility is persisting, p- the field of demography, ranging from its historical jections indicate that by 2050 there will be three times beginnings to promising subjects for its future...
Peter Uhlenberg The classic handbook of population, The Study of Pop- by the beginning of the twenty-first century and p- ulation edited by Philip Hau...
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1328,44 |
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Aging & Age-Related Diseases: The Basics
ISBN: 9781594544262 / Angielski / Twarda / 549 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ageing has become a great problem for many countries. Due to world-wide life prolongation, the number of people over 60 years old has grown rapidly into a ten percent piece of the world population. This book presents the basic data on human ageing as well
Ageing has become a great problem for many countries. Due to world-wide life prolongation, the number of people over 60 years old has grown rapidly in...
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Research Progress in Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia: Volume 1
ISBN: 9781594549496 / Angielski / Twarda / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of neurodegenerative disorder in the ageing population, with dementia as a common consequence. This book presents research from this field.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of neurodegenerative disorder in the ageing population, with dementia as a common consequence. This b...
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Research Progress in Alzheimer's Disease & Dementia, Volume 2
ISBN: 9781600212710 / Angielski / Twarda / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of neurodegenerative disorder in the aging population. This book aims to bring together a presentation of research frontiers in AD/dementia research. It covers topics such as defining deregulation of amyloid
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of neurodegenerative disorder in the aging population. This book aims to bring together a presentatio...
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847,26 |
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Research Trends in Nutrition for the Middle Aged & Elderly
ISBN: 9781604561470 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ageing process changes body composition and thus nutritional status changes as one gets older. At the same time the body becomes more susceptible to diseases and diet becomes an even more significant or at least visibly significant than in earlier year
The ageing process changes body composition and thus nutritional status changes as one gets older. At the same time the body becomes more susceptible ...
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979,49 |
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Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Later Life: New Perspective on Old Age
ISBN: 9781583911457 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Later Life highlights that any attempt to work psychotherapeutically with older people must take into account the effects of working within a context of institutional ageism. It explores the specialist skills required when working with older people, covering:
* the delayed effects of early trauma * narcissism and the re-emergence of borderline traits and dissociative states * the emergence of treatment resistant depression and anxiety * the use of the cognitive analytic therapy model to challenge the child centred paradigm of psychoanalytic... Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Later Life highlights that any attempt to work psychotherapeutically with older people must take into account ...
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Molecular Biology of Alzheimer's Disease: Genes and Mechanisms Involved in Amyloid Generation
ISBN: 9789057023811 / Angielski / Twarda / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text will enable scientists in related research fields, and physicians working with Alzheimer's disease patients, to obtain a quick and complete overview of the current state of the art in one of the most exciting neuroscience research fields.
This text will enable scientists in related research fields, and physicians working with Alzheimer's disease patients, to obtain a quick and complete ...
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Complementary and Alternative Therapies and the Aging Population: An Evidence-Based Approach
ISBN: 9780123742285 / Angielski / Twarda / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The major objective of this book is to review in detail health problems occurring with significant frequency in aging adults which are proposed to be treated or ameliorated using nutriceuticals as foods and dietary supplements as well as other complementary and alternative therapies. Chapters primarily focusing on nutrients have been excluded to maintain a focus on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). The book is divided into three general sections: 1. Nutriceuticals and Botanicals in Health Promotion - including Specific Nutriceuticals Used in Treating Aged; and... The major objective of this book is to review in detail health problems occurring with significant frequency in aging adults which are proposed to ... |
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Therapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Elders: Health and Social Issues
ISBN: 9780789002730 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provide effective services to ethnic elders with culturally competent training Therapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Elders: Health and Social Issues provides culture-specific information to health and social work professionals. You will explore distinctive qualities that are found in ten different ethnic groups to help you better serve these populations. The historical events that have shaped these elders'often-adverse reactions to mainstream providers are also included. Ideas on how to effectively approach these situations are included to improve your skills with a diverse...
Provide effective services to ethnic elders with culturally competent training Therapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Elders: Health and Soci...
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Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment
ISBN: 9780789009715 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provide a comfortable living environment for the aging Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment gives you a complete examination of current trends in adaptive home designs for older adults. As a therapist, designer, architect, builder, home planner, social worker, community organizer, or gerontologist, Aging in Place will show you innovative home designs and studies for creating environments that offer optimal living for aging adults. Complete with diagrams, floor plans, and tables, Aging in Place helps you to improve the quality of life for...
Provide a comfortable living environment for the aging Aging in Place: Designing, Adapting, and Enhancing the Home Environment gives you a c...
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The Carer's Cosmetic Handbook: Simple Health and Beauty Tips for Older Persons
ISBN: 9781843109730 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maintaining a healthy appearance and good hygiene is an important factor in a person's sense of wellbeing. As people age, this does not diminish but the body becomes more sensitive and deserves to be treated in a different way. This practical handbook is specifically designed to assist carers in looking after their clients' appearances as well as their health, providing a wealth of information on health and beauty care for older people. Throughout the book, Sharon Tay, an experienced beauty therapist, gives detailed and easy to follow instructions on appropriate cosmetic techniques such as...
Maintaining a healthy appearance and good hygiene is an important factor in a person's sense of wellbeing. As people age, this does not diminish but t...
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