Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Geriatrics

Nutrition and Functional Foods for Healthy Aging aims to equip anyone studying geriatric nutrition or working with aging adults with the latest scientific reviews of critical topics. The major objective of this book is to review, in detail, the health problems of the aged and how normal food, lifestyle, or nutritional and dietary supplements can help treat them.

Nutrient requirements for optimum health and function of aging physiological systems are often quite distinct from those required for young people. The special nutrition problems of the aged are intensively...

The contributions have been chosen and invited at the 9th AAL congress, Frankfurt.

This book informs the reader of the major preventive health recommendations now practiced by the medical community. Prior to the middle of the last century medical care was primarily episodic. Patients did not see their doctor until they were acutely ill. Now, the advances in medical knowledge of disease processes and the availability of improved diagnostic techniques and treatments have focused medical practice on the prevention of disease. In other words, before the occurrence of a heart attack, stroke, diabetes, and even cancer, there are detectable underlying disorders which, when...

Die Gedachtnistrainerin Annemarie Frick-Salzmann beschreibt, wie unser Gedachtnis funktioniert und welche Gehirnregionen fur einzelne Gedachtnissysteme relevant sind. Sie beantwortet oft gestellte Fragen wie z.B. -Wie sehr konnen wir uns auf unsere Erinnerungen verlassen? Was konnen Ursachen fur falsche Erinnerungen sein? Warum haben Vergessen und Gedachtnispannen auch positive Seiten?- Gut nachvollziehbar widerlegt sie das Vorurteil uber die Vergesslichkeit alternder Menschen. Sie gibt dem Leser Hinweise zum Lernen und Informationen anhand ausgewahlter Texte zu Gehirnregionen und...

Engineering Investment Process: Making Value Creation Repeatable explores the quantitative steps of a financial investment process. The authors study how these steps are articulated in order to make any value creation, whatever the asset class, consistent and robust. The discussion includes factors, portfolio allocation, statistical and economic backtesting, but also the influence of negative rates, dynamical trading, state-space models, stylized facts, liquidity issues, or data biases. Besides the quantitative concepts detailed here, the reader will find useful references to other...

This book is intended as a comprehensive resource for clinicians and researchers seeking in-depth information on geriatric oncology. The coverage encompasses epidemiology, the biology and (patho)physiology of aging and cancer, geriatric assessment and management, hematologic malignancies, solid tumors, issues in patient care, and research methods.

Since cancer is a disease of aging and people are living longer, most cancer patients are now aged 70 and older. Yet the more we age, the more diverse we become in terms of our health, biologic fitness, and cancer behavior. Typically,...