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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

  • 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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  • 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

  • Niedrigschwellige Betreuung von Demenzkranken

    Grundlagen und Unterrichtsmaterialien

    Edited by Gabriela Stoppe, Gerthild Stiens ...
    Die wachsende Zahl Demenzkranker stellt eine große Herausforderung für die Gesellschaft dar. Der Wunsch vieler Betroffener, in ihrer häuslichen Umgebung zu verbleiben, kann oft durch eine Unterstützung der Angehörigen realisiert werden. Positiv wirkt sich dabei die deutsche Gesetzgebung aus, die eine Vergütung von "niedrigschwelligen Betreuungsleistungen" erlaubt. Die Beiträge im ersten Teil des ... Read more

    PHP2,399.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Burden of Adult ADHD in Comorbid Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders

    by Stefano Pallanti, Luana Salerno ...
    This book highlights the importance of investigating for ADHD in adults with attention difficulties, poor memory and executive function impairments. The authors advocate a neurodevelopmental assessment approach in all phases of life, and explain how to perform such assessments. The identification of ADHD in adults with other psychiatric and neurological disorders will lead to a better response to ... Read more

    PHP5,609.69

  • Absolute Geriatric Psychiatry Review

    Essential Questions and Answers

    Edited by Rajesh Tampi, Deena Tampi, Juan Young, Rakin Hoq, Kyle Resnick ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive yet concise review of geriatric psychiatry in preparation for the board exam, or for reference during practice. Written by experts in the field, this text thoroughly reviews over 500 developmental, biological, diagnostic, and treatment questions for board certification. Unlike any other text on the market, this book takes a broader approach to the subject, making ... Read more

    PHP4,362.99

  • The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing

    Global Perspectives

    Edited by Marvin Formosa, Mala Kapur Shankardass ...
    The United Nations Madrid International Plan of Action on Ageing (MIPAA) offers a bold new agenda for handling the issue of ageing in the 21st century. It focuses on three priority areas: older persons and development; advancing health and well-being into old age; and ensuring enabling and supportive environments. This book brings together global perspectives on the MIPAA and focusses on and ... Read more

    PHP3,088.90

  • Intimate Violence Across the Lifespan

    Interpersonal, Familial, and Cross-Generational Perspectives

    by Tova Band-Winterstein, Zvi Eisikovits ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Evidence pertaining to continual violence throughout the life cycle coupled with the experience of growing old in a life permeated by intimate violence is scarce. And the focus is usually on the victims ─ usually, the older, battered women ─ and seldom on their aging partners or adult children who were part and parcel of the violent dynamics in the family system. With the increase in longevity and ... Read more

    PHP3,116.19

  • Updates in Geriatric Urology, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

    Updates in Geriatric Urology, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, E-Book

    Edited by Tomas L. Griebling ...
    Series Book Volume 41-2 - The Clinics: Internal Medicine
    In this issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest editor Dr. Tomas L. Griebling brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Updates in Geriatric Urology. Top experts in the field discuss overactive bladder medications in geriatrics; testosterone replacement therapy for hypogonadism in older men; new paradigms for bladder cancer management in geriatrics; active surveillance for prostate ... Read more

    PHP4,003.19

  • Health and Cognition in Old Age

    From Biomedical and Life Course Factors to Policy and Practice

    Edited by Anja K. Leist, Jenni Kulmala, Fredrica Nyqvist ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In recent years, the aim of research on aging has shifted from prolonging life to fostering healthy and cognitively robust old age. In order to improve the quality of life of older people, we need to better understand cognitive aging as well as bodily aging.Health and Cognition in Old Age assembles the cream of research across varied medical, mental health, and social disciplines, and demonstrates ... Read more

    PHP5,609.69

  • Assessing the Nursing and Care Needs of Older Adults

    A Patient-Centred Approach

    by Helen Taylor ...
    Health resources are becoming increasingly constrained. So it is essential that professionals, and the public, recognise the need to work together in establishing local priorities and collaborate in their implementation. Priority Setting and The Public challenges many widely accepted beliefs and perceptions. It links together academic literature, critical overviews of methods and approaches with ... Read more

    PHP2,797.44

  • Nutrients and Nutraceuticals for Active & Healthy Ageing

    Edited by Seyed Mohammad Nabavi, Grazia D'Onofrio, Seyed Fazel Nabavi ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book focuses on the nutrients and nutraceuticals that promote active and healthy ageing – recently defined by the WHO as the process of development and maintenance of functional capacity that allows well-being at an advanced stage of life. There has been a rapid rise in the use of nutritional interventions as well as specific nutraceuticals in the management of multifactorial aspects of ... Read more

    PHP12,466.69

  • Chronic Diseases in Geriatric Patients

    by Tuck Yean Yong ...
    The incidence of multiple chronic diseases affecting a single individual is high among elderly patients. This incidence is believed to be associated with a decline in many health outcomes, including quality of life, mobility, functional ability, increased frequency of hospitalizations, psychological distress, mortality and the use of health care resources. Health in elderly patients can fluctuate ... Read more

    PHP2,273.40

  • Depression in Later Life

    by Robert C. Baldwin ...
    Series series Oxford Psychiatry Library
    Depression affects between 10-15% of older people, making it the most frequently encountered mental health condition in later life. Despite this, the condition is easily missed in clinical practice or not adequately treated. Part of the Oxford Psychiatry Library, this second edition of Depression in Later Life highlights areas of depression which are of special relevance to later life, how to ... Read more

    PHP1,783.29

  • End-of-Life Care in Cardiovascular Disease

    Edited by Sarah J. Goodlin, Michael W. Rich ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    End-of-life issues in cardiology are becoming increasingly important in the management of patients in the cardiac unit, but there is frequently a lack of understanding regarding their impact on cardiology practice. The cardiac unit is increasingly becoming the location whereby a number of key clinical decisions relating to end-of-life care are being made, such as the decision to remove medications ... Read more

    PHP5,609.69

  • Mechanisms Linking Aging, Diseases and Biological Age Estimation

    Edited by Sara C. Zapico ...
    This book focuses on four of the hallmarks of aging: aspartic acid racemization, advanced glycation end products, telomere shortening and mitochondrial mutations; describing their role in aging and diseases; and their application to age-at-death estimation in forensic sciences in greater depth, displaying the interconnecting pathways among these processes. An additional chapter related to ... Read more

    PHP3,963.29

  • Innovations in the Care of the Elderly

    Edited by Bernard Isaacs, Helen Evers ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Health, Disease and Society
    Originally published in 1984 and concentrating on the West Midlands area of the UK, this book describes the innovations that were made and all that was involved in bringing about changes in care provision for elderly people. The areas covered include hospital-based geriatric and psychogeriatric services, changes in the public housing sector, the development of a domiciliary physiotherapy service ... Read more

    PHP2,680.86

  • Leitfaden Geriatrie Medizin

    Interprofessionell Arbeiten in Medizin Pflege Physiotherapie

    Edited by Heiner K. Berthold ...
    Series series KLINIKLEITFADEN MEDIZIN - Urban & Fischer-Verlag
    Der Leitfaden Geriatrie Medizin bringt das medizinische Wissen auf den Punkt, das bei der Diagnosefindung und Therapie eines alten Menschen von Bedeutung ist und ermöglicht durch die Informationen aus anderen Berufsgruppen eine reibungslosere Behandlung und Versorgung. Vom notwendigen Hintergrundwissen über die Top-15 der akutgeriatrischen Fälle wie Schlaganfall, Exazerbierte COPD, ... Read more

    PHP3,214.69

  • Neuroanatomy and Pathology of Sporadic Alzheimer's Disease

    by Heiko Braak, Kelly Del Tredici ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    As indicated by its title, this monograph deals chiefly with morphologically recognizable deviations from the normal anatomical condition of the human CNS. The AD-associated pathology is illustrated from its beginnings (sometimes even in childhood) to its final form, which is reached late in life. The AD process commences much earlier than the clinically recognizable phase of the disorder, and its ... Read more

    PHP9,349.89

  • Healthcare Sensor Networks

    Challenges Toward Practical Implementation

    Edited by Daniel Tze Huei Lai, Marimuthu Palaniswami, Rezaul Begg ...
    Healthcare sensor networks (HSNs) now offer the possibility to continuously monitor human activity and physiological signals in a mobile environment. Such sensor networks may be able to reduce the strain on the present healthcare workforce by providing new autonomous monitoring services ranging from simple user-reminder systems to more advanced mon ... Read more

    PHP5,245.72

  • Acupressure for Seniors

    Step-by-Step Comprehensive Blueprint on How to Unlock the Full Power of Acupressure in Your Senior Years to Derive Far-Reaching Benefits

    by Katherine Rose ...
    Struggling with chronic pain, fatigue, or sleepless nights as you age?Ready to reclaim your vitality with a natural, drug-free therapy that’s been trusted for millennia?Unlock Ancient Healing Secrets or Acupressure to Ease Pain, Boost Energy, and Thrive in Your Golden Years!Aging shouldn’t mean resigning yourself to aching joints, restless nights, or relying on pills. Yet, so many seniors accept ... Read more

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