Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly
ISBN: 9781588292827 / Angielski / Twarda / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A panel of clinicians, researchers, and leaders in the field review and discuss the latest findings on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of cardiovascular disease in the older patient. The authors explain the physiological changes associated with the normal aging process that may lead to the development of disease, to adverse consequences once disease develops, and which alter the risk-benefit equation for medical and other interventions designed to diagnose, assess, and treat cardiovascular disease. The focus is on particularly common syndromes in the elderly, including cardiac...
A panel of clinicians, researchers, and leaders in the field review and discuss the latest findings on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management ...
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Eldercare Technology for Clinical Practitioners
ISBN: 9781588298980 / Angielski / Twarda / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This important handbook addresses technologies targeted at the assessment, early detection and the mitigation of common geriatric conditions. These include decline in functional abilities, gait, mobility, sleep disturbance, vision impairment, hearing loss, falls, and cognitive decline. This book not only describes the state of both embedded and wearable technologies, but also focuses on research showing the potential utility of these technologies in the field. This important handbook addresses technologies targeted at the assessment, early detection and the mitigation of common geriatric conditions. These... |
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576,96 zł |
Classic Papers in Geriatric Medicine with Current Commentaries
ISBN: 9781588299987 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This volume collects the foundation papers in the discipline of Geriatric medicine. The book begins with a chapter on those papers that established the field. It then goes on to provide a long overdue review of the important "classic" papers in geriatric medicine and includes information on the development of health systems which support the care of older patients. Each chapter begins with a commentary by a faculty member with special interest or expertise in that area. This volume collects the foundation papers in the discipline of Geriatric medicine. The book begins with a chapter on those papers that established... |
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576,96 zł |
Trial Designs and Outcomes in Dementia Therapeutic Research
ISBN: 9781841843216 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Given the increased attention by clinicians, researchers and the pharmaceutical industry to the management and treatment of dementia not only in the elderly but also in increasingly younger populations, the demands for effective evidence-based pharmaceutical control of dementia and quantitative assessment of outcomes have increased. Since some first steps in the early 1960's to the controversial landmark paper of Summers and colleagues, to the most recent trials, it is clear both that much progress has been made, and that much remains to be done. This book is written to take stock of what is...
Given the increased attention by clinicians, researchers and the pharmaceutical industry to the management and treatment of dementia not only in the e...
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546,74 zł |
Involving Families in Care Homes: A Relationship-Centred Approach to Dementia Care
ISBN: 9781843102298 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Families often wrestle with the decision to move a person with dementia into a care home. The decision can be highly charged and emotional, involving feelings of loss, sadness and guilt. Moreover, developing a good relationship between the family and the care home is not an easy matter. In this accessible guide the authors take person-centred dementia care a step forward by outlining ways in which care homes can help families to become partners in the caring process. Using case examples, quotations and research-based evidence, the authors offer practical advice and good practice guidelines...
Families often wrestle with the decision to move a person with dementia into a care home. The decision can be highly charged and emotional, involving ...
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126,01 zł |
Storymaking and Creative Groupwork with Elderly People: Music, Meaning and Relationship
ISBN: 9781853024405 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Paula Crimmens shows that working with older people can be made exciting and stimulating by using storymaking as a basis. Echoing the oral tradition of mankind, the book shows how to use a variety of traditional stories - including myths, folk tales and fairy stories - to work creatively with older people, particularly in groups. The book focuses around themes of empowerment and consolation, and includes groups of stories which can be used as a basis for discussion. Adopting a holistic and person-centred approach, which incorporates emotional and social needs, the author shows how the use of...
Paula Crimmens shows that working with older people can be made exciting and stimulating by using storymaking as a basis. Echoing the oral tradition o...
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153,42 zł |
Including the Person with Dementia in Designing and Delivering Care : I Need to be Me!'
ISBN: 9781853027406 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The views of older people with dementia need to be applied to the design, management, evaluation and implementation of the services that support them. Looking at the roles of those who decide on how, what, where and when care is given, as well as those who deliver care, this book addresses three fundamental questions: * Why should we access the perspective of older people with dementia? * How should we attempt to achieve this? * What are the implications when we do so? The way in which society supports older people is gaining increasing public and media attention, as is the accountability of...
The views of older people with dementia need to be applied to the design, management, evaluation and implementation of the services that support them....
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153,42 zł |
Expressive Arts with Elders : A Resource
ISBN: 9781853028199 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This engaging and practical book shows how older people who are disoriented or depressed or socially excluded by the process of ageing can experience a renewed sense of connectedness and life-affirmation through the expressive arts and arts therapies. The contributors combine a thought-provoking analysis of theoretical considerations around the themes of aging, society and dementia with practical applications in a diverse range of creative arts including drama, music, art, dance and creative writing. They also include descriptions of innovative inter-generational and cross-cultural projects....
This engaging and practical book shows how older people who are disoriented or depressed or socially excluded by the process of ageing can experience ...
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219,24 zł |
Intermediate Care of Older People
ISBN: 9781861563569 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Intermediate care has become a buzzword within health and social care, especially with regard to the care of older people. This text explores what is understood by the concept of intermediate care and, in particular, ways in which the needs of older people can be best met by this range of services.
Intermediate care has become a buzzword within health and social care, especially with regard to the care of older people. This text explores what is ...
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350,51 zł |
Occupational Therapy with Older People
ISBN: 9781861563767 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A book about older people, and the contribution occupational therapy can make towards the maintenance of their health and the appropriate provision of rehabilitation and care.
A book about older people, and the contribution occupational therapy can make towards the maintenance of their health and the appropriate provision of...
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328,59 zł |
Activities for the Elderly: A Guide to Quality Programming
ISBN: 9781882883004 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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Critical Reviews of Oxidative Stress and Aging: Advances in Basic Science, Diagnostics and Intervention (in 2 Volumes)
ISBN: 9789810246365 / Angielski / Twarda / 1624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This two-volume reference examines the translational research field of oxidative stress and ageing. It focuses on understanding the molecular basis of oxidative stress and its associated age-related diseases, with the goal of developing new methods for treating the human ageing processes.
This two-volume reference examines the translational research field of oxidative stress and ageing. It focuses on understanding the molecular basis of...
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Successful Aging: Strategies for Healthy Living
ISBN: 9780306456640 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) There is a near-universal folk saying that everyone wishes to live a good long life, but no one wishes for old age. More contemporarily, the rock and roll band, Little Feat, sang, "You know that you're over the hill when your mind's making promises your body can't fill. " This book is about the good long life. It is a book about primary prevention strategies in the aging process; it is not about preventing that process. It is not about being old. Instead, it is about the things that individuals - and the helping professionals who provide them with counsel and assistance - can do to prevent...
There is a near-universal folk saying that everyone wishes to live a good long life, but no one wishes for old age. More contemporarily, the rock and ...
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384,63 zł |
Recent Advances in Geriatrics
ISBN: 9780306457791 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book, Recent Advances in Geriatrics, is based on the proceedings of the 8th Course of the School of Gerontology and Geriatrics held in Erice (Trapani, Italy) at the In ternational Centre for Scientific Culture "Ettore Majorana" on March 20-25, 1997. This international effort was organized jointly by professors from the University of Palermo (It aly) and from Wayne State University (Michigan, USA) as a result of a cross-cultural col laboration of several years. _ The increasing average age of the populations in industrialized countries has re sulted in increased interest in the different...
This book, Recent Advances in Geriatrics, is based on the proceedings of the 8th Course of the School of Gerontology and Geriatrics held in Erice (Tra...
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576,96 zł |
Pet in the Evaluation of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders
ISBN: 9780387764191 / Angielski / Twarda / 215 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Among all the clinical indications for which radiologists, nuclear medicine phy- cians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists (and others examining disorders of the brain) order and read brain PET scans, demand is greatest for those pertaining to dementia and related disorders. This demand is driven by the sheer prevalence of those conditions, coupled with the fact that the differential diagnosis for causes of cognitive impairment is wide and often difficult to distinguish clinically. The conceptual framework by which evaluation and management of dementia is guided has evolved...
Among all the clinical indications for which radiologists, nuclear medicine phy- cians, neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists (and others examini...
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576,96 zł |
Integrated Management of Depression in the Elderly
ISBN: 9780521689809 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Depression is one of the most common mental health problems facing older people, and it is often unrecognised and usually under-treated. Integrated Management of Depression in the Elderly provides an entirely new approach to understanding late-life depression, by using a series of case studies with commentaries from practitioners internationally. The book covers the epidemiology, presentation and diagnosis of depression in older people and outlines current evidence for effective management drawing on recently published work. The substantive part of the book presents ten case studies of...
Depression is one of the most common mental health problems facing older people, and it is often unrecognised and usually under-treated. Integrated Ma...
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367,90 zł |
Mild Stress and Healthy Aging: Applying Hormesis in Aging Research and Interventions
ISBN: 9781402068683 / Angielski / Twarda / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Whereas chronic stress has well known harmful effects, recent research shows that intermittent exposure of cells and organisms to mild stress can improve various biological parameters. This book brings together some of the world leaders in this area of research who present a critical analysis of the ongoing research with respect to the effects and mechanisms of action of various types of mild stress. Novel approaches to improving health and longevity are introduced.
Whereas chronic stress has well known harmful effects, recent research shows that intermittent exposure of cells and organisms to mild stress can i... |
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Psychological Therapies with Older People: Developing Treatments for Effective Practice
ISBN: 9781583911372 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Sigmund Freud believed that psychoanalysis (and other forms of therapy) was not suitable for people over 50 years of age. In Psychological Therapies with Older People, the authors demonstrate the value of a range of psychological interventions with older people, showing that it is 'not too late' to help.
With an emphasis on practical application, and using a wide range of clinical examples, the authors describe the therapies most likely to be useful in a mental health service for older people, and consider the implications for service provision. Therapies covered include: *... Sigmund Freud believed that psychoanalysis (and other forms of therapy) was not suitable for people over 50 years of age. In Psychological Therapi...
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130,13 zł |
Care-Giving in Dementia: Research and Applications
ISBN: 9781583911884 / Angielski / Twarda / 437 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The first two volumes of Care-Giving in Dementia integrated up-to-date neurobiological information about dementia with specific developments in care-giving. Taking the same multidisciplinary approach, and drawing contributions from leading practitioners, this third volume will prove invaluable to health and mental health professionals caring for people with dementia.
Key themes in Volume 3 include: personal construct psychology and person-centred care; living in lifestyle groups in nursing homes; music therapy for people with dementia; support programmes for caregivers of people... The first two volumes of Care-Giving in Dementia integrated up-to-date neurobiological information about dementia with specific developments ...
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494,61 zł |
Care-Giving in Dementia V3: Research and Applications Volume 3
ISBN: 9781583911891 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The first two volumes of 'Care-giving in Dementia' integrated up-to-date neurobiological information about dementia with specific developments in care-giving. Taking the same multidisciplinary approach, volume three's key themes include person-centred care, living in lifestyle groups, and music therapy.
The first two volumes of 'Care-giving in Dementia' integrated up-to-date neurobiological information about dementia with specific developments in care...
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197,81 zł |