Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Geriatrics

Written by experienced clinicians and edited by Vanderbilt Program for LGBTI Health faculty, this book contains up-to-date expertise from physicians renowned for their work in LGBTI health. This important text fills an informational void about the practical health needs of LGBTI patients in both the primary care and specialty settings remains, and serves as a guide for LGBTI preventative and specialty medicine that can be utilized within undergraduate medical education, residency training, and medical practice. Beginning with a short review of LGBTI populations and health disparities, it...

Dementia is both a personal and a societal challenge. The goal of Dementia Care: A Practical Approach is to focus on how practitioners can meet this challenge with hope and compassion, thereby enabling those with dementia to live well.

The book takes a strengths approach with an emphasis on exploring sustainable strategies. Its content is underpinned by relevant policies and strategies and explicitly links to research evidence while always valuing the voices of those living with dementia.

Covering various dementia strategies, the book provides a clear vision of...

Dieses Buch richtet sich an Fuhrungskrafte aus dem Bereich Pflege und zeigt, wie wichtig eine professionelle Kommunikation fur eine gute Mitarbeitsfuhrung ist und wie man Gesprachssituationen in der Praxis erfolgreich meistert.

Mehr Mitarbeiterzufriedenheit durch eine professionelle Gesprachskultur

Lernen Sie effizient und effektiv mit Ihren Mitarbeiter zu kommunizieren und starken Sie so die Zufriedenheit im Team. Mit zahlreichen Beispielen deckt die erfahrene Autorin ein grosses Spektrum an Gesprachssituationen aus dem Pflegealltag ab. Hier finden Sie konkrete...

This practical handbook offers quick and sound advice on the many issues faced when dialyzing the older patient. It is authored by well-known international experts who have covered the full range of end stage renal disorders including treatment options, patient management and maximization of quality of life. Accessible and easy-to-read, Dialysis in Older Adults serves as the go-to reference for clinicians and members of their team as they treat this challenging patient population.

In vielen Pflegeeinrichtungen steht im Vordergrund die medizinische Versorgung. Wer sich bewusst macht, dass dies der letzte Lebenswohnraum der meisten alten Menschen ist, verandert seinen pflegerischen Schwerpunkt. Ganzheitliche Pflege bezieht die korperliche, seelische und soziale Ebene der Person mit ein. Nehmen Sie die individuelle Bedurfnisse Ihrer Bewohner wahr und begleiten Sie sie einfuhlsam zum Lebensende.

Der Inhalt

• Bedurfnisse und Veranderungen in der besonderen Lebenszeit Alter
• Betreuung Schritt fur Schritt: von der Aufnahme ins Heim bis zum...

Entdecken Sie individuelle Kommunikationswege bei Demenz

Dieser Ratgeber hilft Angehorigen und Pflegenden, die Starken eines demenzerkranken Menschen zu erkennen und individuelle Kommunikationswege auszuprobieren.

Jeder Mensch mit Demenz ist einzigartig und jeder Krankheitsverlauf ist anders. Es gibt kein allgemeingultiges Patentrezept fur den Umgang mit den Betroffenen. Jedoch gibt es gute Herangehensweisen und verschiedene Kommunikationswege, um demenzerkrankte Menschen zu verstehen und Botschaften zu vermitteln. Dies machen die Autoren durch zahlreiche Praxistipps...

Our skin changes as we age. It becomes thinner and loses fat, making it less plump and smooth. Clinically, aged skin is characterized by wrinkles, sagging, age spots and dryness. Emphasizing laboratory and clinical research, this book comprehensively describes the molecular mechanisms of human skin-aging and age-related skin diseases. This includes molecular understanding of the development of aging skin and its prevention as well as mechanisms-based clinical rejuvenation. The book also focuses on research to develop mechanisms-based anti-skin-aging products.

The elderly represent the fastest growing segment of the population in developed countries, reflected in the patient population presenting to EDs and hospitals. These patients more often than not have greater co-morbidities, more complicated workups and utilize more laboratory and radiologic services.

This text is designed to teach emergency physicians how best to care for this specific demographic of patients. It addresses physiologic changes, high-risk conditions, and atypical presentations associated with elderly patients in the ED that result in frequent misdiagnosis or...

The Bell Lap explores, with great insight, the multiple lessons of living and dying. These stories offer engaging and invaluable insights for trainees, practicing nurses, and other health professionals working in the field. Through these stories, the author has laid the ground for caregivers to reach beyond the confines of the settings of illness, whether home, hospital, or long-term care and become an active and involved participant in the world of the patient.

This new edition provides an accessible guide to the commonest neurodegenerative diseases, outlining the main clinical features, treatment options and outcomes of the conditions most frequently encountered in clinical practice.

Beginning with an overview of the general principles that underlie degeneration, and the contribution of established and new diagnostics techniques, the book goes on to describe the most common neurodegenerative conditions and, new for the second edition, also HIV dementia and multiple sclerosis. Final chapters cover important management issues including the...