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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

    PHP307.38

  • 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

    PHP790.69 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

    PHP2,882.89

  • 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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  • Topics in Biomedical Gerontology

    Edited by Pramod C. Rath, Ramesh Sharma, S. Prasad ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book presents a collection of articles on various aspects of current research on aging. These include model systems, cellular, biochemical and molecular aspects of experimental aging research, as well as selected intervention studies on age-related diseases.Aging is a global challenge to human society. Children are always in a hurry to become adults, while adults produce offspring and add to ... Read more

    PHP9,041.89

  • Evaluación de la composición corporal en el adulto mayor

    Edited by Óscar Rosas Carrasco, Miriam Teresa López Teros ...
    El libro aborda conceptos, definiciones y un método de evaluación desde el punto de vista clínico y de investigación clínica en donde se entrelazan dos disciplinas que son pilares en este grupo poblacional: la nutrición clínica y la geriatría. ... Read more

    PHP819.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geriatric Palliative Care, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

    by Madeline Leong ...
    Series Book Volume 31-2 - The Clinics: Internal Medicine
    This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine is devoted to Palliative Care. Guest Editors Thomas Smith, MD and Madeline Leong, MD have assembled a group of expert authors to review the following topics: Palliative Care in the Era of Healthcare Redesign; Communications to Patients; Communications by Professionals; International Palliative Care; Public Health and Palliative Care; Culturally Relevant ... Read more

    PHP4,656.29

  • The Demography and Epidemiology of Human Health and Aging

    by Jacob S. Siegel, S. Jay Olshansky ...
    With this book, Siegel, an internationally known demographer and gerontologist, has made a unique contribution to the fledgling fields of health demography, and the demography and epidemiology of aging. The book represents a felicitous union of epidemiology, gerontology, and demography, and appears to be the first and only comprehensive text on this subject now available. Drawing on a wide range ... Read more

    PHP18,666.39

  • Associações entre imagem corporal e educação física gerontológica

    by Rita Maria dos Santos Puga Barbosa, Nazaré Marques Mota, Flaviane Nogueira Cabral, Aliane Augustinho de Castro ...
    Os estudos da imagem corporal no envelhecimento com Educação Física mostraram a capacidade de reconstruções e o equilíbrio da imagem corporal de idosos, tendo como eixo principal a capacidade de tranformar-se, de tornar-se, de ser, que é advinda da vivência intransferível da individualidade do eu, captado nas dimensões fisiológica, libidinal e social, como preconizou Paul Schilder. ... Read more

    PHP625.00

  • Helping Your Aging Parent: A Step-By-Step Guide, Revised

    by William Grote ...
    Most of us don't know when to step in with an aging parent – especially if they're independent and living on their own. When should you get involved? How will you protect your parent's assets and provide emotional support?Here are the tools you'll need to steer through one of life's most challenging and rewarding experiences – caring for an aging parent.This revised guide takes you step-by-step ... Read more

    PHP304.91

  • Geriatric Surgery and Perioperative Care

    Edited by Gabriella Bettelli, Riccardo A Audisio ...
    Geriatric Surgery and Perioperative Care presents clear evidence to support regulatory and financial decisions in the light of the value-based care principles. The book outlines standards of care for elderly patients undergoing surgery as well as minimal requirements for modern management aimed at delivering cost-effective healthcare. It opens with the epidemiology and patho-physiological changes ... Read more

    PHP8,848.59

  • The Mission of Maya and Methuselah

    A Medical Guide for Aging in Place

    by Karen Marie Humphreys, MD, FRCPC Internal Medicine Specialist ...
    The Mission of Maya and Methuselah guides readers through a practical and well-researched program that will prepare them for their final fifteen to twenty years of life. Geared to people in their forties and older, the preparation focuses on fitness, functionality, and financial health.Dr. Karen Humphreys is an engaging, knowledgeable partner on your journey to better health in your senior years. ... Read more

    PHP572.88

  • Dialysis in Older Adults

    A Clinical Handbook

    Edited by Madhukar Misra ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This practical handbook offers quick and sound advice on the many issues faced when dialyzing the older patient. It is authored by well-known international experts who have covered the full range of end stage renal disorders including treatment options, patient management and maximization of quality of life. Accessible and easy-to-read, Dialysis in Older Adults serves as the go-to reference for ... Read more

    PHP5,812.49

  • Dementia

    A Global Approach

    Edited by Ennapadam S. Krishnamoorthy, Martin J. Prince, Jeffrey L. Cummings ...
    Growth in the incidence of dementia presents major challenges to global healthcare systems. As the burden of dementia in non-Western cultures grows, developing nations are expected to overtake developed nations in terms of dementia prevalence. Insights from developing nations and transcultural considerations are, nevertheless, neglected in the published literature. Dementia: A Global Approach, ... Read more

    PHP8,132.29

  • Early Diagnosis and Intervention in Predementia Alzheimer's Disease, An Issue of Medical Clinics

    by Bruno Dubois, Philip Scheltens, Jose L. Molinuevo, MD, Jeffrey I. Cummings, MD ...
    Series Book Volume 97-3 - The Clinics: Internal Medicine
    This issue of Medical Clinics covers the important advances surrounding the early intervention of Alzheimer's Disease. Guest edited by world-renowned experts from around the world, the topics covered will include evaluation of new diagnostic criteria, CSF biomarkers, diagnostic imaging, neurocognitive approaches, breaking clinical trials and more. ... Read more

    PHP4,656.29

  • Neue Therapien der Alzheimer-Krankheit

    Grundlagen und klinische Aspekte innovativer krankheitsmodifizierender Arzneimittel

    by Sören Arlt, Henryk Barthel, Jens Bohlken, Fabian Buller, Alexander Drzezga, Jochen Fiebach, Ulrich Finkh, Fabian Fußer, Eva Gläser, Jan Grimm, Niels Hansen, Lucrezia Hausner, Christoph Hock, Frank Jessen, Irmgard Landgraf, Sören Mattke, Kevin Meyer, Bernhard Michalowsky, Stefan Moese, Roger Nitsch, Julia Perry, Rupert Sandbrink, Susanna Saxl-Reisen, Silke Schicktanz, Jochen René Thyrian, Jana Wegehöft, Saskia Weiß, Jens Wiltfang ...
    Anti-Amyloid-Therapien gegen die Alzheimer-Krankheit markieren eine neue Ära in der Behandlung neurodegenerativer Erkrankungen. Bislang liegen jedoch im europäischen Raum - außerhalb von klinischen Studien - nur wenige diesbezügliche Anwendungserfahrungen vor. Ärztinnen und Ärzte sowie Betroffene stehen hinsichtlich der Anwendungsbereiche, der praktischen, technischen und instrumentellen ... Read more

    PHP3,399.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Adverse Cutaneous Drug Eruptions

    by T.A.E. Platts-Mills ...
    The skin is one of the most frequently involved organs in adverse drug reactions. Occurring with an incidence of 1-5% for certain types of drugs, cutaneous drug eruptions are mostly benign in nature, and comprise the maculopapular type of eruption and urticaria. However, about one third of them require hospital treatment, leading to a considerable burden for the health care system. In this book, a ... Read more

    PHP9,387.09

  • Preparing for a Better End

    Expert Lessons on Death and Dying for You and Your Loved Ones

    by Dan Morhaim ...
    A vital roadmap to planning your own end-of-life care.While modern Americans strive to control nearly every aspect of their lives, many of us abandon control of life's final passage. But the realities of twenty-first-century medicine will allow most of us to have a say in how, when, and where we die, so we need to make decisions surrounding death, too. Or those decisions may be made for us. ... Read more

    PHP1,262.79

  • Extra Time

    10 Lessons for an Ageing World

    by Camilla Cavendish ...
    ‘An inspirational call to arms’ DAILY MAIL‘This book is so sensible, so substantially researched, so briskly written, so clear in its arguments, that one wishes Baroness Cavendish was still whispering into the prime ministerial ear’ THE TIMES‘A thoughtful handbook to help societies age gracefully’ FINANCIAL TIMES‘This bold, visionary book is a wake-up call to governments. It is a w... ... Read more

    PHP1,018.49

  • Developmental Disability and Ageing

    Edited by Gregory O'Brien, Lewis Rosenbloom ...
    Series series 2
    This handbook is aimed at clinicians and others who are engaged in caring for ageing adults with developmental disabilities. It is intended to inform understanding, promote assessment, assist in care planning, and especially to improve everyday living for this needy but sadly often neglected group of vulnerable individuals. The authors cite the crucial evidence and indicate sources of further ... Read more

    PHP1,540.59 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Early Vascular Aging (EVA)

    New Directions in Cardiovascular Protection

    Edited by Pedro Guimarães Cunha, Pierre Boutouyrie, Michael Hecht Olsen, Peter M Nilsson, Stephane Laurent ...
    Early Vascular Aging (EVA): New Directions in Cardiovascular Protection, Second Edition continues to be the most comprehensive and authoritative resource on premature alterations in artery structure and function. The book presents a novel approach to the problem of cardiovascular disease, showing it in relation to great vessels disease and revealing a comprehensive approach to the problem of ... Read more

    PHP9,116.99

  • Locomotion and Posture in Older Adults

    The Role of Aging and Movement Disorders

    Edited by Fabio Augusto Barbieri, Rodrigo Vitório ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book is an attempt to advance the discussion and improve our understanding about the effects of aging and movement disorders on motor control during walking and postural tasks. Despite these activities are performed daily, there is a high requirement of motor and neural systems in order to perform both tasks efficiently. Both walking and posture require a complex interaction of ... Read more

    PHP7,104.19