Geriatrics category: 483 books
by Deborah Y. Liggan
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Deborah Y. Liggan suffered her first bipolar depressive episode fourteen years ago. It came without warning, and the medication she was prescribed was useless. Only after attempting suicide did she receive electroconvulsive therapy, sometimes called shock therapy. Shed suffer several more bipolar...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2010
Food or calorie restriction has been shown in many short-lived animals and the rhesus monkey to prolong life-span. Life-long nutrition studies are not possible in humans because of their long survival. Studies over two to six years in healthy adult humans have, however, shown that a 20% reduction...
Ginnastica antietà
il metodo geromotricità
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Il volume presenta l’evoluzione del metodo “Geromotricità” ideato da Cesarina Minasso e da Ada Piccolo. Le Autrici lo avevano fatto conoscere per la prima volta con il libro Ginnastica per la terza età e poi, dopo una sperimentazione di circa quindici anni, ne avevano illustrato gli sviluppi...
Improving Your Memory
How to Remember What You're Starting to Forget
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In the years since the previous edition of Improving Your Memory was published, technology has dramatically changed how we keep track of life’s many details. Appliances and car lights turn themselves off, smartphones and computers remind us of appointments, and Google lets us search for the information...
Life-Span Extension
Single-Cell Organisms to Man
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009
In recent years, remarkable discoveries have been made concerning the underlying mechanisms of aging. In Life-Span Extension: Single-Cell Organisms to Man, the editors bring together a range of illuminating perspectives from researchers investigating the aging process in a variety of species. This...
by Harvey Jay Cohen, MD, Arati V. Rao
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2016
This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, devoted to Geriatric Oncology, is guest edited by Drs. Harvey J. Cohen and Arati V. Rao of Duke University Medical Center. Articles in this issue include: Cancer and Aging: General Principles, Biology and Geriatric Assessment; Cancer Screening in the Elderly;...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
People are living longer and the population over the age of 60 is burgeoning, with repercussions for health services and healthcare expenditure in developed countries. Crucially, disease aetiology, diagnosis, and treatment in older people differ from the general adult population. Older people often...
Geriatric Psycho-Oncology
A Quick Reference on the Psychosocial Dimensions of Cancer Symptom Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Geriatric Psycho-Oncology is a comprehensive handbook that provides best practice models for the management of psychological, cognitive, and social outcomes of older adults living with cancer and their families. Chapters cover a wide range of topics including screening tools and interventions, psychiatric...
Healthy Aging
Principles and Clinical Practice for Clinicians
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Includes 29 chapters, divided into chronic illness both physical and emotional, cover only the most common illnesses of older adults. The chapters are consistent in their framework and are embedded with current treatment modalities. This text incorporates the holistic framework that comprises geriatric...
by Fred A. Luchette, MD, MSc
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014
Caring for the Geriatric Surgical Patient is covered extensively in this important Surgical Clinics of North America issue. Articles include: Changing Demographics of the American Population; Effect of Aging on Cardiac Function plus Monitoring and Support; Effect of Aging on Vascular System plus Monitoring...
The Role of Global Air Pollution in Aging and Disease
Reading Smoke Signals
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2018
Global Air Pollution in Aging: Reading Smoke Signals is a complete reference connecting environmental pollution research to the human aging process. Since 1800, lifespans have more than doubled as infections declined and medicine improved. But the 20th century introduced a new global scourge of air...
Aging
Exploring a Complex Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
This book is a detailed and comprehensive synthesis of the scientific study of aging. Dozens of contributions from leading scholars review various theories of aging, and molecular, cellular, biochemical and microbial aspects of aging, among just a few of the topics included. Authoritative, wide ranging...
The Mystery of Human Aging
Surprising Insights from a Science That's Still Young
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
How can we turn back the clock? Health food, gyms and cosmetic companies promise us everlasting youth, but the effects of aging are caused by complex biological processes at the level of the cell. The author shows what we can do to protect ourselves and what exciting breakthroughs scientists are still...