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Eldercare Technology for Clinical Practitioners (Hardback - 17 Jan 2008)

Eldercare Technology for Clinical Practitioners
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...

Edited by Majd Alwan; Robin Felder

ISBN-13: 9781588298980 ; ISBN-10: 1588298981

Price: £72.00 £60.00 Not Available

Infectious Diseases, An Issue of Geriatric Medicine Clinics (Hardback - 14 Jan 2008)

Infectious Diseases, An Issue of Geriatric Medicine Clinics
Infections are a major cause of mortality in the elderly, and because the geriatric population is the fastest growing group in the United States, infections in the elderly are one of the most frequently encountered medical problems facing many physicians. This new issue Guest Edited by Kevin High highlights the basic principles, clinical syndromes, and prevention of infection in older adults. The issue begins with...

By (author) Kevin High

ISBN-13: 9781416050483 ; ISBN-10: 1416050485

Price: £58.99 £52.69 Not Available

Gastroenterology, An Issue of Geriatric Medicine Clinics (Hardback - 14 Jan 2008)

Gastroenterology, An Issue of Geriatric Medicine Clinics

By (author) Syed Tarig

ISBN-13: 9781416050490 ; ISBN-10: 1416050493

Price: £58.99 £52.69 Not Available

REALLY ESSENTIAL MEDICAL GENETICS (Paperback - 1 Jan 2008)

REALLY ESSENTIAL MEDICAL GENETICS

By (author) Not Available (NA)

ISBN-13: 9781405113304 ; ISBN-10: 1405113308

Price: £21.64 Not Available

Inheritance in Contemporary America – The Social Dimensions of Giving across Generations (Hardback - 22 Feb 2008)

Inheritance in Contemporary America – The Social Dimensions of Giving across Generations

By (author) JL Angel

ISBN-13: 9780801887635 ; ISBN-10: 0801887631

Price: £30.00 £26.00 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Senior Living Communities: Operations Management and Marketing for Assisted Living, Congregate, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities (Paperback / softback - 14 Nov 2007)

Senior Living Communities
The demand for residential communities for seniors rises as the U.S. population continues to age. This growth means that new administrators and staff members often are learning by trial and error the complicated task of delivering high-quality and consistent services to elderly persons. While many new facilities have been successful, others have been plagued by a variety of administrative and financial...

By (author) Benjamin W. Pearce

ISBN-13: 9780801887185 ; ISBN-10: 0801887186

Price: £50.00 £40.50 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Senior Living Communities: Operations Management and Marketing for Assisted Living, Congregate, and Continuing Care Retirement Communities (Hardback - 5 Nov 2007)

Senior Living Communities
The demand for residential communities for seniors rises as the U.S. population continues to age. This growth means that new administrators and staff members often are learning by trial and error the complicated task of delivering high-quality and consistent services to elderly persons. While many new facilities have been successful, others have been plagued by a variety of administrative and financial...

By (author) Benjamin W. Pearce

ISBN-13: 9780801887178 ; ISBN-10: 0801887178

Price: £83.50 £64.95 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Geriatric Bioscience: The Link between Aging and Disease (Hardback - 31 Oct 2007)

Geriatric Bioscience
It is increasingly important for physicians who treat older persons, and for researchers on aging, to understand how molecular biology informs clinical expressions of aging and age-related conditions such as osteoporosis, diabetes, osteoarthritis, frailty, cancer, and dementia. Dr. David Hamerman translates basic scientific concepts into precepts of clinical practice and sheds light on the links among biology,...

By (author) David Hamerman MD; Foreword by Robert N. Butler MD

ISBN-13: 9780801886928 ; ISBN-10: 0801886929

Price: £30.00 £26.00 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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A Guide to Aging (Paperback - 30 Oct 2007)

A Guide to Aging

By (author) V.K. Ahluwalia

ISBN-13: 9788189093952 ; ISBN-10: 8189093959

Price: £7.74 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Older Americans, Vital Communities – A Bold Vision for Societal Aging (Paperback / softback - 30 Nov 2007)

Older Americans, Vital Communities – A Bold Vision for Societal Aging

By (author) WA Achenbaum

ISBN-13: 9780801887680 ; ISBN-10: 0801887682

Price: £16.50 £14.85 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Geriatric Physical Diagnosis: A Guide to Observation and Assessment (Hardback - 11 Oct 2007)

Geriatric Physical Diagnosis
"This guide provides insight into the clinical observation, diagnosis and treatment of elderly patients. It concentrates on the basic geriatric physical examination with each chapter providing general information as well as helpful approaches to specificr Informed by more than thirty years of experience, this guide provides a wealth of insight into the clinical observation, diagnosis and treatment of elderly...

By (author) M.D. Williams, Mark E.

ISBN-13: 9780786430093 ; ISBN-10: 0786430095

Price: £84.95 £63.84 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Anemia in the Elderly (Hardback - 8 Oct 2007)

Anemia in the Elderly
Anemia in the elderly has been properly defined as the silent epidemic, representing 3 million people in the United States aged 65 years and older. Incidence and prevalence of this condition increase with age. It differs in its etiology, pathogenesis and treatment from anemia in children and younger adults. Anemia is associated with reduced survival, increased risk of functional dependence and hospitalization,...

Edited by Lodovico Balducci; William B. Ershler; John M. Bennett

ISBN-13: 9780387495057 ; ISBN-10: 0387495053

Price: £85.50 £70.62 Not Available

Anaesthesia for the Elderly Patient (Paperback - 30 Aug 2007)

Anaesthesia for the Elderly Patient
This concise pocketbook is designed to offer a comprehensive introduction to the basic principles and major clinical issues facing the anaesthetist dealing with the elderly patient. As the population of the developed world gets proportionally older, elderly patients will continue to present more and more frequently to hospital for surgery and anaesthesia. Elderly patients pose a clinical challenge to the...

By (author) Chris Dodds; Chandra Kumar; Frederique Servin

ISBN-13: 9780199234622 ; ISBN-10: 0199234620

Price: £8.60 Not Available

Practice of Geriatrics (Hardback - 30 Aug 2007)

Practice of Geriatrics
The geriatric population is expected to double by 2020. The new fourth edition of Practice of Geriatrics will equip you with the knowledge you need to provide effective care for this growing patient population. With revised and up-to-date content throughout, this essential reference will keep you abreast of the latest clinical protocols and management challenges in geriatric care.

By (author) Edmund H. Duthie; Paul R. Katz; Michael Malone

ISBN-13: 9781416022619 ; ISBN-10: 1416022619

Price: £57.99 £51.89 Not Available

Caregiving Contexts: Cultural, Familial and Social Implications (Hardback - 13 Aug 2007)

Caregiving Contexts

By (author) Ph.D. (EDT) Szinovacz, Maximiliane E.; Ph.D. (EDT) Davey, Adam

ISBN-13: 9780826102874 ; ISBN-10: 0826102875

Price: £60.95 £46.64 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Challenges of an Aging Society: Ethical Dilemmas, Political Issues (Hardback - 7 Aug 2007)

Challenges of an Aging Society
In this important and timely collection, some of the best minds in gerontology and bioethics -- including Nancy Dubler, Rick Moody, Andrew Achenbaum, Robert Hudson, and Robert Binstock -- explore the ethical, social, and political challenges of an aging society. A unique combination of disciplines and perspectives -- from economics to nursing, psychology to theology -- this valuable synthesis of theory and practice...

Edited by Rachel A. Pruchno; Michael A. Smyer

ISBN-13: 9780801886485 ; ISBN-10: 0801886481

Price: £33.50 £28.45 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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Biological Aging (Mixed media product - 9 May 2007)

Biological Aging
This book investigates the various processes that are affected by the age of an organism. Several new tools for the analysis of biological aging have been introduced recently, and this volume provides methods and protocols for these new techniques in addition to its coverage of established procedures. Researchers seeking new technology and techniques will find this volume of tremendous benefit as they move towards...

Edited by Trygve O. Tollefsbol

ISBN-13: 9781588296580 ; ISBN-10: 158829658X

Price: £94.50 £77.37 Not Available

A Practical Treatise on the Diseases and Infirmities of Advanced Life (Paperback - 30 Apr 2007)

A Practical Treatise on the Diseases and Infirmities of Advanced Life

By (author) Daniel Maclachlan

ISBN-13: 9781432534318 ; ISBN-10: 1432534319

Price: £36.77 £33.90 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Drugs for the Geriatric Patient: Text with BONUS PocketConsult Handheld Software (Mixed media product - 11 Apr 2007)

Drugs for the Geriatric Patient
This user-friendly, comprehensive drug reference - available in print and electronically for handheld, point-of-care usage -provides clinical information on more than 1000 drugs and their use in geriatric patients. In addition to dosage information and clinical indications, this reference also addresses the challenging issues of drug-drug and drug-disease interactions, polypharmacy, toxicity, compromised renal and...

By (author) Ronald I. Shorr

ISBN-13: 9781416002086 ; ISBN-10: 1416002081

Price: £69.85 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Aging: The Paradox of Life (Hardback - 30 Mar 2007)

Aging: The Paradox of Life
For centuries people have puzzled over the inevitability of human aging. At the end of the 20th century a remarkable scientific discovery emerged, based on a series of important interconnected insights over quite a long period of time. The aim of this book is to dispel ignorance by explaining in non-technical language what are the reasons for aging and the myth of excessive prolongation of life. For centuries people...

By (author) Robin Holliday

ISBN-13: 9781402056406 ; ISBN-10: 1402056400

Price: £30.00 Not Available

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