Psychiatry in the Nursing Home
ISBN: 9780789012142 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Get the vital clinical information you need with this comprehensive handbook In the decade since the first edition of this book, dramatic changes have taken place in the field of geriatric psychiatry. Psychiatry in the Nursing Home, Second Edition, presents timely information on the newest trends in law, culture, and medications, while still offering essential advice on the fundamental concerns of caring for elderly patients with mental illnesses. The new edition of this essential handbook presents up-to-date information on psychiatric issues involving nursing home...
Get the vital clinical information you need with this comprehensive handbook In the decade since the first edition of this book, dramatic ch...
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166,89 zł |
Psychiatry in the Nursing Home
ISBN: 9780789012197 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Get the vital clinical information you need with this comprehensive handbook In the decade since the first edition of this book, dramatic changes have taken place in the field of geriatric psychiatry. Psychiatry in the Nursing Home, Second Edition, presents timely information on the newest trends in law, culture, and medications, while still offering essential advice on the fundamental concerns of caring for elderly patients with mental illnesses. The new edition of this essential handbook presents up-to-date information on psychiatric issues involving nursing home...
Get the vital clinical information you need with this comprehensive handbook In the decade since the first edition of this book, dramatic ch...
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104,29 zł |
Assisted Living: Sobering Realities
ISBN: 9780789014436 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn how to make elder housing more homelike Taking an incisive look at assisted living for the elderly, Assisted Living: Sobering Realities is an important book for the professionals who work with aging Americans and their families. This vital book provides a multidisciplinary overview of the world of assisted living for older Americans. With unique insight and a keen clinical perspective, Assisted Living examines a variety of topics: the dilemma of aging in place, the realities of end-of-life care, and the ins and outs of residential care supply. Easy-to-read graphs and charts...
Learn how to make elder housing more homelike Taking an incisive look at assisted living for the elderly, Assisted Living: Sobering Realitie...
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912,96 zł |
Assisted Living: Sobering Realities
ISBN: 9780789014443 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn how to make elder housing more homelike Taking an incisive look at assisted living for the elderly, Assisted Living: Sobering Realities is an important book for the professionals who work with aging Americans and their families. This vital book provides a multidisciplinary overview of the world of assisted living for older Americans. With unique insight and a keen clinical perspective, Assisted Living examines a variety of topics: the dilemma of aging in place, the realities of end-of-life care, and the ins and outs of residential care supply. Easy-to-read graphs and charts...
Learn how to make elder housing more homelike Taking an incisive look at assisted living for the elderly, Assisted Living: Sobering Realitie...
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255,58 zł |
Midlife and Older Adults and HIV : Implications for Social Service Research, Practice, and Policy
ISBN: 9780789026453 / Angielski / Twarda / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the beginning of the HIV pandemic, the disease's impact on older adults was seldom considered. However, HIV affects older adults in many ways, and their unique challenges warrant increased attention. Up to 15 percent of Americans infected with HIV are now over 50, and the professional literature and intervention designs are beginning to look spe
At the beginning of the HIV pandemic, the disease's impact on older adults was seldom considered. However, HIV affects older adults in many ways, and ...
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808,63 zł |
Midlife and Older Adults and HIV : Implications for Social Service Research, Practice, and Policy
ISBN: 9780789026460 / Angielski / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Get a detailed overview of the social services provided for HIV-infected midlife and older adults, and find out where social work practice with this growing population is headed As more potent medications are being developed to treat HIV, people who have contracted the virus are living longer lives than previously expected. Survival means new side effects and increasingly complex issues, now compounded by the diseases of aging. All this presents unprecedented challenges to social service and benefit systems. Midlife and Older Adults and HIV: Implications for Social Service Research, Practice...
Get a detailed overview of the social services provided for HIV-infected midlife and older adults, and find out where social work practice with this g...
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224,28 zł |
Sensorimotor Impairment in the Elderly
ISBN: 9780792323938 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ThisvolumerepresentstheproceedingsofaNATOAdvancedResearchWorkShop(ARW) on the topic of "Sensorimotor Impairment in the Elderly" held at the Residenz Hotel, Bad Windsheim, Germany, September 11-13, 1992. The Residenz Hotel provided a pleasarit setting for the ARW in a historic environment. ' The motivation of this ARW was to provide some coherence to the widely scattered literature on motorimpairmentsin the elderly by bringing together, for atwo day workshop, many of the prominent individuals who are doing much of the contemporary research on sensorimotor aging. Our hope was to advance...
ThisvolumerepresentstheproceedingsofaNATOAdvancedResearchWorkShop(ARW) on the topic of "Sensorimotor Impairment in the Elderly" held at the Residenz H...
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Why Survive?: Being Old in America
ISBN: 9780801874253 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author questions the value of long life for its own sake, arguing that modern medicine has ironically created a group for whom survival is possible but satisfaction elusive. He proposed reforms to redefine and restructure the institutions responsible for the elderly in America.
The author questions the value of long life for its own sake, arguing that modern medicine has ironically created a group for whom survival is possibl...
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Teaching Dementia Care: Skill and Understanding
ISBN: 9780801880421 / Angielski / Twarda / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dementia afflicts millions of Americans and deeply affects the lives of their loved ones. Good care has been proven to have a significant effect on the quality of life of a person with dementia. To ensure good care, staff members of nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and adult day-care centers, and providers of home care must be thoroughly and continually trained by qualified and well-prepared professionals. Nancy L. Mace, coauthor of The 36-Hour Day, has created the ultimate teachers' guide for dementia care training. Rich with information and with tools for... Dementia afflicts millions of Americans and deeply affects the lives of their loved ones. Good care has been proven to have a significant effect on... |
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Geriatric Bioscience: The Link Between Aging and Disease
ISBN: 9780801886928 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It is increasingly important for physicians who treat older persons, and for researchers on aging, to understand how molecular biology informs clinical expressions of aging and age-related conditions such as osteoporosis, diabetes, osteoarthritis, frailty, cancer, and dementia. Dr. David Hamerman translates basic scientific concepts into precepts of clinical practice and sheds light on the links among biology, natural aging, longevity, and disease. Exploring the connections between disease and the science behind it, Geriatric Bioscience addresses how mechanisms of... It is increasingly important for physicians who treat older persons, and for researchers on aging, to understand how molecular biology informs clin... |
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Strategies for Helping Victims of Elder Mistreatment
ISBN: 9780803930940 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides practical information which can be used to help victims of family abuse based on information gleaned from research and clinical work. Focusing on intentional physical, psychological, financial abuse and neglect of the elderly, the authors provide a theoretical framework for understanding the phenomenon. The signs and symptoms of mistreatment are also explored. Representatives from the law, medicine, nursing and social work discuss their respective professional roles in helping victims achieve a life without violence. Victims of mistreatment testify to their personal...
This book provides practical information which can be used to help victims of family abuse based on information gleaned from research and clinical wor...
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568,65 zł |
The Practical Handbook of Clinical Gerontology
ISBN: 9780803952379 / Angielski / Twarda / 728 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains an overview of several broad topics pertinent to the treatment of older adults and discusses special considerations in assessment.
This volume contains an overview of several broad topics pertinent to the treatment of older adults and discusses special considerations in assessment...
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808,63 zł |
Personality Disorders in Older Adults : Emerging Issues in Diagnosis and Treatment
ISBN: 9780805826838 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the average age of the population rises, mental health professionals have become increasingly aware of the critical importance of personality in mediating successful adaptation in later life. Personality disorders were once thought to age out, and accordingly have an inconsequential impact on the lives of the elderly, but recent clinical experience and studies underscore not only the prevalence of personality disorders in older people, but also the pivotal roles they play in the onset, course and treatment outcomes of other emotional and cognitive problems. Clearly, mental health...
As the average age of the population rises, mental health professionals have become increasingly aware of the critical importance of personality in me...
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626,03 zł |
Aging, Communication, and Health: Linking Research and Practice for Successful Aging
ISBN: 9780805833799 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection highlights the current efforts by scholars and researchers to understand the aging process as it relates to the health of older adults. With contributions from international scholars in communication, psychology, public health, medicine, nursing, and other areas, this volume emphasizes communication as a critical research, education, policy, and practice issue for the design, provision, and evaluation of health and social services for older adults. Organized into sections addressing communication developments in the healthcare arena, issues in provider-patient communication,...
This collection highlights the current efforts by scholars and researchers to understand the aging process as it relates to the health of older adults...
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704,29 zł |
Behavior, Health, and Aging
ISBN: 9780805834048 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An increasing number of elderly Americans has introduced new and challenging healthcare dilemmas to solve. This book addresses some of these issues including management of chronic illness, effects of ageing on immunity, and importance of genetics and molecular biology.
An increasing number of elderly Americans has introduced new and challenging healthcare dilemmas to solve. This book addresses some of these issues in...
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Acute Emergencies and Critical Care of the Geriatric Patient
ISBN: 9780824703455 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A review of the diagnosis and treatment of common surgical and medical emergencies in elderly patients. It examines drug therapies and drug prescribing protocols, identifies life-threatening drug reactions, weighs ethical issues, and addresses methods of profiling patients for nursing care. The work also evaluates disease states and gauges optimal responses to each, supporting recommendations with case studies.
A review of the diagnosis and treatment of common surgical and medical emergencies in elderly patients. It examines drug therapies and drug prescribin...
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Gait Disorders: Evaluation and Management
ISBN: 9780824723934 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With chapters by many of the foremost international authorities on aging, neurology, physical therapy, and rehabilitation, this reference provides an up-to-date review of approaches to gait disorders and falls. This volume presents the fundamental concepts of gait and describes the changes in mobility with aging and disease. A focus is placed on recent assessment and intervention practices for common gait disorders, especially those seen in older adults, including sections on neuro-psychological influences, fear of falling and exercise, and strategies for specific disease groups, such as...
With chapters by many of the foremost international authorities on aging, neurology, physical therapy, and rehabilitation, this reference provides an ...
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912,96 zł |
Antibiotic Therapy for Geriatric Patients
ISBN: 9780824727833 / Angielski / Twarda / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by the foremost authorities on the topic, this reference provides quick access to essential information on specific antibiotics, major clinical infections, selected pathogens, and infections in long-term elderly-care facilities-summarizing the vast array of topics related to infectious diseases in older adults including epidemiology, clinical manifestations, altered host resistance, and pharmacology.
Written by the foremost authorities on the topic, this reference provides quick access to essential information on specific antibiotics, major clinica...
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297,31 zł |
Geriatric Otolaryngology
ISBN: 9780824728502 / Angielski / Twarda / 820 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Book Description Opening with a clear overview of the biology and demographics of aging, this text authoritatively summarizes the most recent knowledge on disorders of the ears, nose, paranasal sinuses, oral cavity, larynx, voice, throat, and neck in the geriatric population. With chapters by prominent leaders in the discipline, this reference serves as an invaluable source of guidance on perioperative assessment, operative procedures and outcomes, and new strategies for reconstructive and cosmetic surgery.
Book Description Opening with a clear overview of the biology and demographics of aging, this text authoritatively summarizes the most recent knowledg...
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276,44 zł |
Stress, Immunity, and Aging
ISBN: 9780824771140 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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1304,24 zł |