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Geriatrics eBooks

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  • Life Giving Dementia Care

    by Toni Kanzler ...
    Explore the ultimate guide to compassionate dementia and Alzheimer's care in Life Giving Dementia Care.This poignant guide, winner of the 2021 Best Indie Book Award and Reader's Favorite Five Star recipient, is a heartfelt journey penned by a daughter who cared for her own mother. Seamlessly blending personal experience and expert insights, this Amazon bestseller offers an easy-to-read, jargon ... Read more

    PHP290.88

  • Curing Medicare

    A Doctor's View on How Our Health Care System Is Failing Older Americans and How We Can Fix It

    by Andy Lazris ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    Andy Lazris, MD, is a practicing primary care physician who experiences the effects of Medicare policy on a daily basis. As a result, he believes that the way we care for our elderly has taken a wrong turn and that Medicare is complicit in creating the very problems it seeks to solve. Aging is not a disease to be cured; it is a life stage to be lived. Lazris argues that aggressive treatments ... Read more

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  • The Nostalgia Factory

    Memory, Time and Aging

    by Douwe Draaisma ...
    Translated by Liz Waters ...
    "An entertaining discussion" of the role memory plays in our lives as we age, including an interview with Oliver Sacks ( Times Higher Education Supplement).When we can't call to mind the name of someone we've known for years, or walk into a room and forget what we came for, we start worrying. Are these lapses just "senior moments," or something serious like dementia? In this book, a renowned ... Read more

    PHP729.49 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fragility Fracture Nursing

    Holistic Care and Management of the Orthogeriatric Patient

    Edited by Karen Hertz, Julie Santy-Tomlinson ...
    Series series Perspectives in Nursing Management and Care for Older Adults
    This open access book aims to provide a comprehensive but practical overview of the knowledge required for the assessment and management of the older adult with or at risk of fragility fracture. It considers this from the perspectives of all of the settings in which this group of patients receive nursing care.Globally, a fragility fracture is estimated to occur every 3 seconds. This amounts to 25 ... Read more

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  • Leisure and Aging

    Theory and Practice

    by Heather Gibson, Jerome Singleton ...
    The number and percent of older people in developed countries continue to grow, thanks to medical advances and decreases in fertility and mortality rates. And that means that tomorrow’s recreation and leisure professionals will be more challenged than ever to meet the needs of an increasingly older culturally diverse population.Leisure and Aging: Theory and Practice provides students and ... Read more

    PHP2,728.09

  • Aging by Design: How New Thinking on Aging Will Change Your Life

    by Theodore Goldsmith ...
    Why do we age? How do we age? These questions have baffled scientists for centuries and remain unresolved. The answer to the "how" question is critical to our ability to successfully prevent and treat age-related diseases like cancer and heart disease that now cause the majority of all deaths in the developed world. Because of major difficulties in experimentally determining causes of aging, the ... Read more

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  • Acute Geriatric Medicine

    Edited by M. Lye ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Most patients in developed nations with medical problems requiring hospital care are elderly. Increasingly the dividing line between general internal medi cine and acute geriatric medicine is becoming more blurred. It is, nevertheless, apparent that some elderly patients on medical or sub-specialty hospital wards become 'bed blockers'. Why? Also, why are 'bed blockers' less of a problem on an ... Read more

    PHP3,116.19

  • Positives Altern und Prekarität

    Theorie, Politik und soziale Realität im vergleichenden deutschen Kontext

    by Irina Catrinel Crăciun ...
    Series series Social Sciences, Humanities and Law (excluding publishing partner content) (German language)
    Dieses Buch untersucht positives Altern aus der Perspektive der Prekarität und zielt darauf ab, Theorien des positiven Alterns in aktuellen sozialen Kontexten zu verankern. In den letzten Jahren war die Forschung zum Thema Altern von wachsenden Meinungsverschiedenheiten zwischen Befürwortern des Modells des erfolgreichen Alterns und kritischen Gerontologen geprägt, die auf die zunehmenden ... Read more

    PHP5,067.99

  • The Eldercare Consultant

    Your Guide to Making the Best Choices Possible

    by Becky Feola ...
    Your elderly father's memory is failing fast. Your increasingly frail mother just took another fall. Whatever the situation, The Eldercare Consultant can provide the knowledge, support, and encouragement you seek. Weaving together real-life stories with the essential information needed to make the best decisions, this compassionate and practical guide helps you: Spot warning signs of physical and ... Read more

    PHP771.69 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trace Elements and Minerals in Health and Longevity

    Edited by Marco Malavolta, Eugenio Mocchegiani ...
    Series Book 8 - Healthy Ageing and Longevity
    This book describes the role of trace elements in health and longevity, pursuing a biogerontological approach. It offers essential information on the impact of trace elements on molecular and physiological processes of aging, and on their impact on health in connection with aging. The major topics covered in its 11 chapters, each dedicated to a specific trace element or mineral, are:a) Role of the ... Read more

    PHP9,349.89

  • Frailty and Cardiovascular Diseases

    Research into an Elderly Population

    Edited by Nicola Veronese ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book aims to clarify the potential association between frailty and cardiovascular disease in older people. Covering the biological as well as the clinical point of view, it allows researchers and clinicians to discover the significance of this topic.The contributions cover the most important aspects in the potential relationship between frailty and cardiovascular disease. In particular, ... Read more

    PHP7,479.79

  • 100 Plus

    How the Coming Age of Longevity Will Change Everything, From Careers and Relationships to Family and

    by Sonia Arrison ...
    Humanity is on the cusp of an exciting longevity revolution. The first person to live to 150 years has probably already been born.What will your life look like when you live to be over 100? Will you be healthy? Will your marriage need a sunset clause? How long will you have to work? Will you finish one career at sixty-five only to go back to school to learn a new one? And then, will you be happily ... Read more

    PHP615.59

  • Geriatric Home-Based Medical Care

    Principles and Practice

    Edited by Jessica L. Colburn, Bruce Leff, Mariah L. Robertson, Mattan Schuchman ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    Older adults are living longer with more chronic disease and functional impairment than at any other time in history. Office-based practice is inadequate to meet the needs of patients who have difficulty leaving their homes for routine or urgent visits, and health care clinicians must choose between trying to manage their problems via telehealth or sending them to the emergency room via ambulance. ... Read more

    PHP6,856.39

  • The Biology of Human Longevity

    Inflammation, Nutrition, and Aging in the Evolution of Lifespans

    by Caleb E. Finch ...
    Written by Caleb Finch, one of the leading scientists of our time, The Biology of Human Longevity: Inflammation, Nutrition, and Aging in the Evolution of Lifespans synthesizes several decades of top research on the topic of human aging and longevity particularly on the recent theories of inflammation and its effects on human health. The book expands a number of existing major theories, including ... Read more

    PHP4,662.69

  • Rumänisch-Deutsch für die Pflege zu Hause

    română-germană pentru îngrijirea la domiciliu

    by Nina Konopinski-Klein, Dagmar Seitz, Johanna Konopinski ...
    Series series Medicine (German Language)
    Rumänisch/Deutsch, Deutsch/Rumänisch - Wörterbuch für rumänische Pflegende, Senioren und Angehörige:Eine große Herausforderung für viele rumänische Pflegekräfte im deutschsprachigen Raum ist die Verständigung im Alltag der häuslichen Pflege. Dieser einfache Sprachführer ist ein unverzichtbarer Helfer im direkten Gespräch. Begriffe und einfache Sätze aus dem Alltag werden in beiden Sprachen ... Read more

    PHP1,044.89

  • Cognitive Changes after Surgery in Clinical Practice

    Edited by Andrew Severn ...
    Series series In Clinical Practice
    This book reviews current knowledge about cognitive dysfunction in surgical patients to provide a common knowledge base and terminology. It covers the topic in a way that considers all points of view, and enables the reader to be better equipped to manage cognitive dysfunction in all its manifestations in surgical patients. This book will hopefully also be a source of generating future ideas for ... Read more

    PHP4,674.59

  • Retraining for the Elderly Disabled

    by Margaret Mort ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Many elderly patients have long-term physical disability and in order for them to maintain a certain level of independence either in hospital or in the community, great attention must be paid to devising programmes to overcome problems and enhance residual abilities.Originally published in 1985, the programme described in this book had developed over the previous 25 years at the Royal Newcastle ... Read more

    PHP2,797.44

  • Through the Seasons

    Activities for Memory-Challenged Adults and Their Caregivers

    by Cynthia R. Green, Joan Beloff ...
    Series series A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
    A collection of easy-to-follow activities, organized by seasons of the year, to help family members and caregivers engage with memory-challenged adults.Dementia and related disorders impact the lives of those affected in countless ways, making it difficult to remain independent at work, at home, and in the wider world. But recent studies have shown that structured activities can make a significant ... Read more

    PHP953.69

  • Neurogenic Dysphagia

    by Tobias Warnecke, Rainer Dziewas, Susan Langmore ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book is a clinical manual that covers the whole spectrum of swallowing and its disorders. It starts with physiology of swallowing, pathophysiology of disordered deglutition, diagnostic methods (clinical and instrumental) and ends with an in-depth’s and up-to-date presentation of current treatment options. The clinically most relevant topics of dysphagia management on the stroke unit and the ... Read more

    PHP5,297.99

  • Handbook of Rehabilitation in Older Adults

    Edited by Robert J. Gatchel, Izabela Z. Schultz, Christopher T. Ray ...
    Series series Handbooks in Health, Work, and Disability
    This book discusses the state of the research and cutting-edge practice with regard to chronic illnesses and rehabilitation in older adults. It emphasizes biopsychosocial and culturally appropriate rehabilitation approaches to reduce the degree of disability and maximize independence in the activities of daily living among the burgeoning aging population.Organized in four sections—Introduction and ... Read more

    PHP11,843.29

  • Movement Disorders Curricula

    Edited by Cristian Falup-Pecurariu, Joaquim Ferreira, Pablo Martinez-Martin, Kallol Ray Chaudhuri ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book offers a comprehensive approach to the wide range of movement disorders, an important specialty in the field of neurology, guiding readers from the phenomenology to diagnosis and management. Reflecting the latest developments in the field, it offers a unique summary of this dynamic area by pursuing a uniform approach to movement disorders curricula.Divided into three parts, Movement ... Read more

    PHP8,103.09

  • Cross-Cultural and Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives in Social Gerontology

    Edited by Tannistha Samanta ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume intends to re-establish social gerontology as a discipline that has pragmatic links to policy and practice. Collectively, the chapters enrich public debates about the moral, cultural and economic questions surrounding aging, thereby ameliorating the “problems” associated with aging societies. This volume is uniquely cross-cultural, theory-driven and cross-disciplinary. It fills a gap ... Read more

    PHP6,856.39

  • Feeding and Swallowing Disorders in Dementia

    by Jacqueline Kindell ...
    This informative manual draws on expert research to highlight the feeding and swallowing difficulties that can occur with dementia. It is also a practical guide that offers potential strategies to manage these problems. Professionals are encouraged to focus on the needs of the individual by providing practical questions that should be asked when making an assessment. This is achieved through a ... Read more

    PHP3,263.78

  • Handboek dementie

    Laatste inzichten in diagnostiek en behandeling

    Edited by C. Jonker, F.R.J. Verhey, J.P.J. Slaets ...
    Series series Dutch language eBook collection
    Sinds het verschijnen van de Richtlijn diagnostiek en farmacologische behandeling van dementie in 2005 zijn er veel ontwikkelingen gaande op het gebied van onderzoek, diagnostiek en behandeling van dementie. Het accent is meer komen te liggen op een benadering vanuit de pathologie en minder op de syndroomdiagnose.Oordelen over zogenoemde anti-alzheimermiddelen worden voortaan wetenschappelijk ... Read more

    PHP5,242.49